live on stage the rabbit box seattle march 10th 2026

 Goddess KRING will share a song in person Tuesday March 10th  Seattle Open Mic "open michael" at The Rabbit Box Seattle 94 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101   https://www.therabbitboxseattle.com/

PoetryBridge Seattle

 I'm very grateful to be part of this group reading our poetry and stories that we write in West Seattle at the wonderful coffee shop - monthly PoetryBridge readings at C&P Coffee in West Seattle next Wednesday, March 11th, from 6-8 PM (PST). Our featured readers will be Shannon Kringen, Ann Spiers, and Edward Harkness followed by Community Mic. C and P Coffee 5612 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136

Wednesday March 11th 6-8pm

Multi Media Artist Shannon Kringen grew up in San Diego California and Whidbey Island Washington. She is a self taught photographer with a background in Graphic Design. She has worked as a figure model in Seattle since 1992. She completed her BA degree in Arts and Literature from Antioch University in 2013. She sees her creative expression as a tool to connect with community and a way of increasing self awareness and tap into a deeper wisdom within. In her own words, "I write as it flows into my brain. inspired by songwriters and nature.

I am neurodivergent and see shapes when I hear music. SYNESTHESIA is part of my reality. (“Synesthesia is when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously. Some examples include tasting words or linking colors to numbers and letters.) My poems are visual and musical as well as written words. double and triple entendres...paradox rocks! Ann Spiers was Vashon Island’s inaugural Poet Laureate and steward of its Poetry Post in its town park. Besides teaching, she served as Vashon Land Trust staff, Audubon president, and field assistant in the Cascade volcanoes. Poetry published recently are Back Cut (Black Heron), Rain Violent and Wild Cucumber New and Selected Poems (Empty Bowl), chapbook Harpoon (Ravenna’s Triple chapbooks series). Wild Cucumber is a glorious expression of Ann Spiers’ inimitable voice and singular sensibility. The work is painterly – juicy, viscid language pulled across the page in sure and sharp brushstrokes. She has a kind of clairvoyance, sees in every landscape its concurrent past, and future; in the baby in her arms, the man. She adores, openly, and completely without sentimentality – the larva-riddled berry received on the tongue like eucharist. Spiers’ study of haiku tradition is evident, and the concluding ensō an apt motif. Each poem is a gift and a wonder, at once plain, almost austere, and wholly ripe, swollen to bursting. (Reviewed by Sati Mookherjee, author of Eye and Ways of Being.) Edward Harkness is a Shoreline poet and English professor emeritus. In his book, Creek Water: New & Selected Poems, Ed offers a wide-ranging selection of his poems written over five decades, all united by his ever-attentive eye, inquisitive mind and compassionate heart. These narrative poems quietly and evocatively explore parallels between the personal and the historic, setting ordinary details of daily life alongside world events ranging from the Civil War to the hanging of poet Benjamin Moloise in Pretoria. Whether writing about the joys of a long marriage, fatherhood, or the challenge of facing his own mortality, Harkness reminds us that history and our lives are made of moments that when witnessed deeply, generously, and compassionately can transform. Shimmering like the stones in the creek water he praises, these poems look to the past while speaking to our current times, to “the world breaking your heart and somehow mending it.” You can enjoy your favorite beverage and listen to poetry too!