In
2016, several members of Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers held a
Veterans’
Day Reading at the Moran Prairie Branch of the Spokane County Public Library.
Programs
Check here for information on upcoming meetings,
member
signings, readings, and other events in the Spokane Area Writing World
POETRY READING SERIES HONORS VETERANS, ARMISTICE DAY
The Spokane Poetry Showcase concludes on Sunday, Nov. 11, with an Armistice
Day reading by poets from the Spokane Chapter of the Veterans for Peace. The
series, featuring a different line-up every two weeks, is sponsored by the
Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane. The next reading begins at 7 p.m. at the church, 4340 W. Fort Wright
Drive.
Admission is free, although canned food donations are appreciated, and light
refreshments will be offered.
The
Nov.11 reading is sanctioned by the national Veterans for Peace organization,
and is one of dozens of events across the country in their Reclaim Armistice
Day campaign. Armistice Day was originally declared to celebrate the end of
World War l—the “war to end all wars”--but was changed to Veterans Day after World
War ll. Local writers and veterans Rusty Nelson and Hollis Higgins will read
original work.
Rusty
Nelson was born in Georgia while his father was a Navy chaplain in the Pacific
Theater of WWII. “I went to Vietnam with a degree in English, an education
in conformity, and a commission in the U.S. Army at Presbyterian College in
South Carolina. While I was there I posed as a combat boat platoon
leader.” Nelson and his wife Nancy staffed the Peace and Justice Action
League of Spokane for 20 years. As the founding president of Spokane
Veterans for Peace, Chapter #035, Nelson says he cherishes his life membership
in VFP, bestowed by his chapter comrades at the 2018 convention in St. Paul.
Hollis
Higgins graduated as an English major from Fresno State University, and was
drafted into the Army Artillery in 1968. He says he was a poor soldier, and
left the military with a medical honorable discharge after deployment to Korea,
diagnosed with “schizophrenic reaction,” which he calls “the only sane response
to war.” He has lived in Spokane for past 25 years, and is the secretary of VFP
Spokane #35. His work has been published in “Letters To The
Wall” in 2016, and in “Vet Lit: How We Remember War,” in 2015 and in “Vet Lit
2: So It Goes,” in 2017.
The doors will open at 6:30, and this is an all-ages event, although some adult
content is to be expected. For more information contact Dennis Held at helddennis@hotmail.com.
OUR NEXT
MEETING
Thursday,
December 6th, 2:30 pm at the Golden Corral on N. Division St.
In keeping with tradition, our
December meeting
will feature an “Open Mic” session.
Members (and guests) will have an
opportunity
to share brief (five minute) excerpts of their work.
A signup sheet will be available at
the meeting.
Readings will be timed.
Please rehearse and time your reading
to ensure
you can complete it in the allotted time.
OUR MEETING
Thursday,
January 3rd, 2:30 pm at the Golden Corral on N. Division St.
Scheduled
Speaker for the day is well-known local author
Sharma Shields.
(Further information will be posted
when available)
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