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WordsWest Literary Series Presents
A Trio of MoonPath Poets
New poetry by Katy E. Ellis, Susan Landgraf, and Cindy Veach
6:00 pm, Wed., June 18, 2025
C & P Coffee Co, 5612 California Ave. SW
Website: wordswestliterary.weebly.com/next-event.htmlWEST SEATTLE – Please join WordsWest Literary Series and A Trio of MoonPath Poets: Katy E. Ellis (a WordsWest co-curator), Susan Landgraf, and Cindy Veach! This evening’s event will celebrate the 2025 publication of their poetry collections by MoonPath Press. Expect a ‘triple play’ of fine poems that link together a physical and spiritual wilderness of complicated fairy tales and powerful inner monsters in unexpected ways. Books will be for sale and treats will be served!
Katy E. Ellis is the author of Forty Bouts in the Wilderness, which was first runner-up for the 2024 MoonPath Press Sally Albiso award. Her other books include the prose-poetry-novel Home Water, Home Land, Tolsun Books, 2022, and an award-winning chapbook Night Watch, Floating Bridge Press, 2018. Her work has appeared in numerous publications in the U.S., including Pithead Chapel, American Journal of Poetry, and in and Canadian journals PRISM International, Grain, and Fiddlehead.
Susan Landgraf has published more than 400 poems in Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Margie, Nimrod, Third Wednesday, Calyx, Rattle, and others. Books include Journey of Trees published by The Poetry Box; Crossings published by Ravenna Press as part of its Triple series; The Inspired Poet from Two Sylvias Press; What We Bury Changes the Ground from Teboch Bach; Other Voices from Finishing Line Press; and Student Reflection Journal for Student Success published by Prentice Hall. A former journalist, she taught at Highline College for 30 years and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She served as Poet Laureate of Auburn, Washington, from 2018 to 2020.
Cindy Veach is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press, forthcoming May 2025), Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read.’ Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Poet Lore and Salamander among others. She is the recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and the Samuel Allen Washington Prize. Cindy is poetry co-editor of MER.
WordsWest was curated by West Seattle writers Katy E. Ellis, Susan Rich, and Harold Taw from 2014 to 2019. They continue to host occasional pop-up events.