Poet Randall Potts
Northtown Books welcomes Randall Potts to read from Trickster, his new collection of poems from University of Iowa Press. Joining him to read will be Humboldt poet Monte Merrick. Randall Potts is the author of a previous collection of poems, Collision Center, published by O Books in 1994 and a chapbook, Recant: (A Revision), published by Leave Books in 1994. He attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has taught creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts. He volunteered as an intern at a wildlife rehabilitation hospital and worked on several oil spill responses. He lives in Berkeley, California. Monte Merrick began working with injured wildlife in 1999 at the PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood, Washington. He is a co-founder and co-director of bird ally x, a collective of wildlife caregivers based in Northern California which recently merged with the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center. A poet and occasional publisher of other poets, his poetry can be found in the West Marin Review and online at: "le point d'appui: a magazine of ammunition," which he edits. Monte Merrick is married to artist Laura Corsiglia, and they live between the redwoods and the sea in Manila, California.
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