WEEKEND: Poets to read during Fourth Friday event in Sequim today

Published 12:01 am Friday, September 25, 2015

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Sept. 25.

SEQUIM — Nurse practitioner Risa Denenberg and psychiatrist Al Phillips, both poets, are the featured writers for the Fourth Friday Reading at The Lodge, 660 Evergreen Farm Way.

Admission is free to this gathering of readers and writers, and participants are encouraged to come early at 6 p.m. today.

Denenberg’s and Phillips’ readings will start at 6:30 p.m. at The Lodge, which is just off Fifth Avenue.

After these two writers finish, the microphone will open up for others to share five-minute readings of poetry and prose.

Anyone interested in reading is invited to sign in at the beginning of the evening; then names are drawn from the hat for the hourlong open-mic section.

Denenberg, who cares for people at the Jamestown Family Health Clinic, also reviews poetry for the American Journal of Nursing.

A co-founder of Headmistress Press, she’s the author of several poetry collections.

Phillips, a practicing psychiatrist in Sequim, is developing two projects: a memoir about growing up in the Great Depression and his struggles with attention deficit disorder and dyslexia, and an endeavor he calls “What My Patients Have Taught Me: The Life of a Psychiatrist.”

For more details about the Fourth Friday Readings and how to partake in the open mic, email Ruth Marcus at rmarcus@olypen.com.