Welcome guest readers Jed Myers and Ted McMahon!
Jed Myers’ fourth book of poetry, Can’t Be Far (MoonPath Press, 2026), was a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award. Prior collections are Learning to Hold (Wandering Aengus Press Editors’ Award), The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), *Watching the Perseids *(Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), and six chapbooks. Recent honors include the Northwest Review Poetry Prize, the River Heron Poetry Prize, and the Sundress Chapbook Editor’s Choice Award. Poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Southern Indiana Review, The Southeast Review, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Myers lives in Seattle, where he’s editor of Bracken.
Born in 1946 to second-generation Irish parents, Ted McMahon grew up in Oak Hill Park, near Boston, one of many post-WW II planned residential developments intended for returning veterans. He graduated from Williams College and Duke University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Orthopedic Hospital (now Seattle Children’s), and practiced outpatient pediatrics in Eugene, OR, and later Seattle, from 1976-2014. An avid river-runner, he has led trips on the major rivers of the West, including many journeys on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Since 1990 he has channeled his love of language into poetry. His poems have appeared in The Seattle Review, The Comstock Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among others. His chapbook, First Fire was published in 1996 and his full-length collection, The Uses of Imperfection, in 2003. He has served as an editor at Floating Bridge Press and currently at the on-line journal, Bracken. His most recent chapbook, Visitations, was published by MoonPath Press in 2026. Since 1986, Ted has lived in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood with his wife Rosanne Olson—photographer, musician, and artist.
Hosted by poet laureate Erin Malone!
Sign up to read opens at 6:45pm. Ages 14+ *Cookies, courtesy of T & C, wine, and tea will be served. *Location: Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.