Please contact Martha at marthasilano@yahoo.com if you would like to schedule a reading, workshop, or other event.

2008

November 20
Edmonds Bookshop Edmonds, WA. With Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Jack McCarthy, Martha Silano

October 4
The Poulsbohemian, Poulsbo, WA. With Janet Norman Knox and Natasha Moni. 

April 17
Letters to the World reading. Seattle, WA. [Details soon.]

February 2
Lillian Vernon Creative Writer's House at New York University. 58 W. 10th St. New York, NY 10011 Not for Mother's Only contributors reading with Fence party afterward. 7 - 11 pm. With wine and music.  Features many, many mothers, including Annie Finch, Alicia Ostriker, Molly Peacock, Eleni Sikelianos, & Rachel Zucker.  Come party with mothers! 212-998-8816 creativewriting@nyu.edu

February 1
AWP Book Fair, Hilton Hotel, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 212-586-7000
Steel Toe Books/Wind Publications
10:30-11:45 am
Signing

2007

November 29
Richard Hugo House. With Erin Malone. Unexpected: Poems about Postpartum Mood Disorder. In the Cabaret. 7:30 pm. Co-sponsored by 4-Culture and Richard Hugo House.

November 7
Richard Hugo House. Gala reading from Not for Mother's Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, co-edited by Rebecca Wolff & Catherine Wagner (Fence Books 2007). Richard Hugo House, Seattle WA. In the Carbaret. 7 pm.

October 20
Richard Hugo House. Martha teaches a class titled The Spoof, the Riff, and the Retort. 1-5 pm. Contact Hugo House at www.hugohouse.org to enroll.

June 7
Between the Lines 2006 & 2007 Reading. Edmonds Community College, 20000 68th Avenue West, Lynnwood WA. Meadowdale Hall Room 234. Copies of Between the Lines will be available for purchase. 6 pm. 

April 22
Seattle Poetry Festival, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA. Swivel reading, 4:15-5 pm

April 9
University Bookstore
Reading with Susan Rich, author of Cures Include Travel and The Cartographer's Tongue. 4326 University Way, Seattle, WA. 7 pm. 

February 6
Village Books
Transforming the Personal: Memory and Mythology. Poetry Writing Workshop with Jeannine Hall Gailey. Critique, exercises, analyze sample poems.
Fairhaven, WA.
6-8 pm, $20

January 30
Richard Hugo House
13 poets reading from Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets. 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA.
7 p.m.


2006

December 10
Seattle Public Library, Central Branch
30 poets read from Floating Bridge Press's recently released Poetry on Wheels: An Anthology of King County's Poetry on the Buses Program, 1997-2005. 2 pm. Free cookies and coffee.
 
October 21
Village Books, Bellingham, WA
With Jeannine Hall Gailey.
7:30 pm

October 5
Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle WA
7:30 pm

September 24
Pike Place Market, Harvest Extravaganza. With Stokeley Towles, Shannon Borg and Merna Hecht.
1-2 pm

September 21
Seven Muses Gallery
Tacoma, WA
With Allen Braden
7:00 pm

August 5
Richard Hugo House
Wild & Wicked Tour, Cabaret. With Jeannine Hall Gailey and artists Michaela Eaves and Tom Collicott.
3-5 pm

June 28
Rendevous Reading. With Shannon Borg and others.
Seattle, WA.
7:30 pm

May 21
Jewel Box Theatre
Poulsbo, WA.
3 pm

May 16
Open Books: A Poem Emporium.
Reading & Signing of Blue Positive (Steel Toe Books). With Jeannine Hall Gailey.
7:30 pm

April 29
Burning Word Poetry Festival, Greenbank Farm.
Whidbey Island, corner of State Highway 525 and Wonn Road in Greenbank, 18 miles north of the Clinton Ferry dock.
9 am - 8 pm

April 22
Wordstock Festival
Mountain Writers Poetry Stage
Portland, Oregon. With Kevin Craft.
3 pm

April 6
Ravenna Third Place Books
Reading from Pontoon, an anthology of Washington Poets
6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle. With Erin Malone, Priscilla Long, and others.
7:30 pm

February 8
On the House
1205 E. Pike Street, Seattle. With Kevin Craft.

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2005

October 21
Bookworm Exchange
4860 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle. 206-722-6633.
With Chris Jarmick.

October 13
It's About Time Writers Reading Series, Craft Lecture.
Ravenna Third Place Books. 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle. 206-525-2347.

October 1
Cranky 6 release reading
Miller Community Center. 19th & Thomas. Capitol Hill, Seattle.

July 22
Ravenna Third Place Books.
6504 20th Ave NE Seattle. 206-525-2347. With Michele Glazer.

May 19
Cranky 5 release reading. Seattle Art Museum.

May 12
It's About Time Writers Reading Series.
Ravenna Third Place Books. 6504 20th Ave. NE Seattle. 525-2347.

May 1
Seattle Poetry Festival, Crab Creek Review Reading.
Richard Hugo House.

April 26
Poetry on Buses Reading.
Seattle Art Museum, downtown Seattle.

April 2
Washington State Poetry Association Awards Reading.
Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

February 28
Colloque-Wheel Reading Series.
Victrola Cafe, with Kary Wayson, Molly Tenenbaum, Eric McHenry and Jay Thompson.

February 12
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds anthology reading and signing with David Wagoner, Maya Sonenberg, and Robert Hill Long. Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle WA.

January 12
Parkplace Books, Kirkland, WA. With Rebecca Hoogs and John Burgess.

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