SEQUIM — Andrew Rahal, poet, traveler and Quileute Tribal School teaching assistant, will be the featured writer in tonight’s Fourth Friday Reading at Rainshadow Coffee Roasting Co., 157 W. Cedar St.
Admission is free. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase.
Rahal, whose poems have appeared in journals such as Silk Road Review, Danse Macabre and the Nashville Arts Magazine, will step up at 6:30 tonight.
Rahal grew up outside Baltimore, earned degrees in literature and creative writing at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and then came to the North Olympic Peninsula, where he served as an AmeriCorps member in the Port Angeles School District and with the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe.
He now lives in Forks, works as a teaching assistant at the Quileute Tribal School in LaPush, and spends his free time surfing and writing.
Tonight, he’ll offer poetry reflecting his relationship to new and familiar regions.
Listeners and fellow writers are invited to come at 6 p.m. to choose seats and to sign up for the five-minute open-mic readings later in the evening.
The names of the open-mic readers will be drawn from those submitted before the event begins. The sharing of prose and poetry will then come after Rahal’s set and run until 8 p.m.
For Fourth Friday Reading series open-mic guidelines, email coordinator Ruth Marcus at Rmarcus@olypen.com.
