Please join us in welcoming San Francisco poet Jason Morris together with Portland’s own Ryan Newton & Jackie Motzer.

Jason Morris was born and raised in Vermont. He is the author of eleven books and chapbooks, including Attending Void (forthcoming from Lithic Books, 2025), Hologram (forthcoming from Two Way Mirror, 2025); Low Life (Bird & Beckett Books, 2021); and Levon Helm (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018). In addition to poetry, he has written essays on Clark Coolidge's Crystal Text and Bernadette Mayer's interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their child.

Jackie Motzer grew up in Ohio and moved to San Francisco to attend the New College of California’s Poetics program where she edited the independent imprint The Body Elevator Press. Her chapbook The Nymph Poem was published by Snag Press and her work was featured in Ellipsis Magazine. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

Ryan Newton is a Poet who lives and works in Portland Oregon. He attended the New College of California Poetics program in San Francisco, and grew up in the Bay Area. His latest chap books of Poetry are Spirit Elevator, Mountain Waves & Lipstick Pickups. He is working on a book length collection of Poems called NIGHT WINDOW.