BY LEANNE GRABEL click the first image below to open in gallery view Leanne Grabel is a special education and language arts teacher for Portland Public Schools, as well as a performing poet and co-founder of Portland’s legendary poetry cafe, Cafe Lena. Grabel has procured numerous multi-media arts grants over the years to produce spoken-word-based … Continue reading
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One Night on Broadway
BY NOEL FRANKLIN Noel Franklin is a Seattle-based performance poet and visual artist with an academic background in fine arts printmaking. Her poetry has garnered a Seattle Arts Commission grant, a Jack Straw Foundation Fellowship and placement on Seattle’s National Poetry Slam team. Her visual art has been exhibited in Seattle, Sacramento and San Francisco. Continue reading
Tides
BY SARAH ROSENBLATT & MARGO SHICKMANTER Sarah Rosenblatt is a Seattle-based comic artist drawn to comics’ high potential for interdisciplinary work as well as social and cultural commentary. Her work deals with current events as well as autobiographical content, infused with political and feminist overtones. “Tides” is a collaboration with poet Margo Shickmanter. Margo Shickmanter … Continue reading