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Date and Time
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June 5 2024 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
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Description
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 Join us for Poetry at the Postmark! The City of Auburn is hosting a poetry reading series on the first Wednesday of each month at Postmark Center for the Arts on Auburn Avenue.
Featured Reader, Joseph G. Sissón: After a thirty-seven-year education career in California and Washington, Joseph G. Sissón authored a historical memoir, Down the Road a Piece. Prior writing experience includes Plant Amnesty’s newsletter, University of Washington’s Voice, Sacramento’s Poet and other vers libre poetry. Speaking engagements include the American Association of University Women, the Veterans Day program at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, Seattle’s Highpoint and Douglas Truth Libraries, Radio Station KLOI-LP 102.9, and a True Voice Podcast interview. He co-chairs African American Writers’ Alliance meetings as well as attending writing groups in Renton and Sumner. As a world traveler, he has visited the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Papua New Guinea, all three North American countries, East Africa’s Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia and several countries in Europe: the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, Ireland, Scotland, England, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greece, and Turkey. His future travel plans include South America, Antarctica, and China.
An entrepreneur, he is completed graduate work at California State Colleges, the University of Washington, Harvard, and Columbia University. He is an avid hiker, yoga and Pilates participant, and a fair-weather cyclist, surviving Puget Sound’s rainy season by drinking black coffee and reading.
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