Lane Community Writers Series / 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 5, 2018 / Room 421, Lane Community College Downtown Campus / 101 West 10th Avenue, Eugene OR

Austin Gray — Frank Rossini — Nicole Taylor

Austin Gray’s work has appeared in Gertrude, Floating Bridge Review, Envoy, and Willamette Week. His chapbook, The Mystery of Horses, was co-winner of the 2010 Robin Becker Prize. He earned an MFA at the University of Montana, studying under Richard Hugo, and recently completed a residence sponsored by Writing by Writers.

Frank Rossini grew up in New York City and in 1972 moved to Eugene, Oregon, where he received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon. Over the past fifty years, he has published poems in various journals, including the Paterson Literary Review, The Seattle Review, Chiron Review, Raven Chronicles, and Willow Springs. He has published a chapbook, sparking the rain, from Silverfish Review Press and a book of poems, midnight the blues, from sight | for | sight books.  He has also spent a lot of time in darkrooms and in front of a computer creating an eclectic body of photographs, which he exhibits locally & online.

Nicole Taylor lives in Eugene.  She is an artist, a poetry note-taker, a hiker, a sketcher, and a volunteer. Her poems have been published in Boneshaker, Clackamas Literary Review, Elohi Gadugi Journal, Four and Twenty, Toe Good, Abraham Lincoln Magazine, West Wind Review, and other journals. You can read and hear her poetry online at Oregon Poetic Voices.

Austin Gray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfwPBs7p1Y

Frank Rossini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSYw5vCQlY

Nicole Taylor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNMIjk3lla0

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