Join Scott Dalgarno at a live poetry reading showcase with other MoonPath Press poets. It’s on Sunday, November 9th, 2025 at 2pm CST. Signup here!
From the Facebook invitation:
Welcome to Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry for our weekly reading, a NEW BOOKS SHOWCASE, featuring MoonPath Press poets, Pat Dixon, Lisa Ashley, Pamela Hobart Carter, Scott Dalgarno, Cindy Veach, and Katy E. Ellis!
–with special guests Lana Ayers and Thomas A. Thomas
PAT DIXON
Patrick Dixon is a writer/photographer retired from careers as an educator and commercial fisherman. A member of the Board of Directors of the Olympia Poetry Network, he has been published in several literary journals, including Cirque, Claudius Speaks, Linden Avenue, Mom Egg Review, Oberon, and many other publications. He was included in Washington State Book Award-winning Anthologies Take a Stand: Art Against Hate (Raven Chronicles, 2020) and I Sing the Salmon Home (Empty Bowl, 2024). Mr. Dixon grew up in Indiana, but moved to Kenai, Alaska in 1975, where he lived and fished for over 20 years. Mending Holes is his first full-length collection of poetry.
LISA ASHLEY
Lisa Ashley is a Pushcart Prize nominee who descends from Armenian genocide survivors. She has spent many years listening to, and supporting, incarcerated youth. Oubliettes of Light is her first collection and was a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award, 2024. Poems can be found in Willows Wept Review, Juniper, Blue Heron Review, The Healing Muse, Amsterdam Quarterly, Gyroscope, Thimble, Last Leaves and others. She writes in her log home among the firs on Bainbridge Island, WA, having found her way there from rural New York by way of Montana and Seattle. Lisa holds a BA in journalism from the University of Montana and a Master of Divinity from Seattle University.
PAMELA HOBART CARTER
After she earned two geology degrees, Pamela Hobart Carter became a teacher. Her collection Earth at Perihelion was second runner-up for the 2024 Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award from MoonPath Press. She’s the author of four chapbooks with long names. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize. Carter is also a prize-winning visual artist and playwright who lives in Seattle.
SCOTT DALGARNO
Scott Dalgarno counts himself fortunate to have seen his poems in APR, The Yale Review, The Antioch Review, The Bellevue Literary Review. Two of his poems are in the current Issue of The Iowa Review and three of his translations of the 8th Century Tang poet, Du Fu, are in the current issue of The Adroit Journal. He won the Write 10 competition out of Cambridge, UK in September. His volume, Third-Class Relics, was a finalist for the 2024 Sally Albiso Prize and has been published by MoonPath Press. He lives and writes in Lake Oswego, Oregon where he works for issues of justice.
CINDY VEACH
Cindy Veach is the author of three poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press); Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read.” Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Philip Booth Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize. Cindy is co-poetry editor of MER (Mom Egg Review).
KATY E. ELLIS
Katy E. Ellis is the author of Forty Bouts in the Wilderness (MoonPath Press) a first runner-up for the Sally Albiso Poetry Award. Her other books include the prose-poetry-novel Home Water, Home Land (Tolsun Books), and an award-winning chapbook Night Watch (Floating Bridge Press). Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies including most recently Mom Egg Review, SWWIM, Pithead Chapel, Rise Up, American Journal of Poetry, Literary Mama, MAYDAY Magazine, Burnside Review, and in the Canadian journals PRISM International, Grain and Fiddlehead. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.