Gears Turning Poetry: Brady, Cohen, + Raphael w/ Dang

Dan Brady has been featured in the Poet’s Eleven Series and S.F. Peace and Hope’s anthology. He has ties with the Bay Area Poet’s Coalition and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He’s led workshops and hosts the Wednesday series at Sacred Grounds ”Good food and fine poetry since 1972.” His books are Orphan City, (i)n((s(i)gh)t) to;(r(io)t) and Haiku: Infolded Meaning.

Susan Cohen is an award-winning journalist and poet who lives in Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate, Poetry International, River Styx, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, Verse Daily, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry among many other publications. Her second full-length collection, A Different Wakeful Animal, won the 2015 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press which issued it in June.

A long-time Portland resident, Dan Raphael’s been active in the Northwest as poet, performer, publisher and reading host. Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid, his 19th book, came out this June from Last Word Press; previous books include The State I’m In (nine muses press) and Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon). His poems have appeared in over 300 magazines, websites and anthologies including Caliban, Big Bridge, Otoliths, Rattapllax, Make it True, Cordite, Unlikely Stories and Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry. He has given over 200 readings, in places like Bumbershoot, Wordstock, Powell’s Books, Reed College, Ellliot Bay Books, Penofin Jazz Festival and 80 different places in Portland. For 13 years he ran a monthly reading series at a downtown books store, then curated Poetland—80 poets at 8 different venues over an 8 hour stretch.