PORT TOWNSEND — Poets Donald Kentop and David D. Horowitz will read their work during the next installment of the Northwind Readings Series on Thursday.
The readings will start at 7 p.m. at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.
The suggested donation is $3 to $5. All proceeds will support the Northwind Arts Center.
After retirement, Kentop, who graduated from NYU and Columbia, began writing poetry.
He completed the Writers Program at the University of Washington and has appeared at numerous area venues.
He was a Jack Straw writer for 2004 and a 2005 Seattle Poet Populist finalist.
His far-ranging poetry has appeared in Mute Note Earthward, Tattoos on Cedar, 2004 Jack Straw Anthology, Chrysanthemum and Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Ridge.
He has served on the board of the Washington Poets Association.
In 2004, Rose Alley Press published his chapbook, On Paper Wings. In 2015, he released Frozen by Fire: A Documentary in Verse of the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911.
Horowitz founded and manages Rose Alley Press, which to date has published 16 books.
Fourteen of those are poetry collections, including his two latest, Sky Above the Temple and Cathedral and Highrise.
Horowitz’s poems have been published in numerous journals, including The New Formalist, The Lyric, Candelabrum, The Smoking Poet and Quill and Parchment.
His essays regularly appear in the online journal Exterminating Angel.
He lives and works in Seattle, where he frequently organizes and hosts readings.
Northwind is a nonprofit that sponsors visual, musical and literary art events and education on the Olympic Peninsula.
For more information, see www.northwindarts.org or call Bill Mawhinney at 360-302-1159.
