Poetry in Motion

The Station Bistro

first Monday every month 7 p.m.

Monday May, 7

We are pleased to present Connie Walle! and Jim Teeters!

please join us!

Jim Teeters

Jim is a local retired social worker, writer, and seminar leader. He holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Hawaii and a Writer’s Certificate from the University of Washington Extension. Jim is the author of two how to teach books: Teach with Style (Redleaf Press, 2001 – soon to be republished by ASTD Press) and Going Intergenerational (Barclay Press 2010). His poetry collections are as follows:  Being, Doing, Loving (2002), If I Should Wake before I Die (2006), Morning Wings (2008), Don’t Turn Away (CreateSpace 2011), and Reservations (2012 Finishing Line Press). His poems have appeared in Beginnings, Arnazella, and Poets at the Kent Canterbury Faire and two Anthologies on parenting and motherhood. He taught English through poetry in China and has published articles in the China Daily News. Jim lives in Kent with his wife, Rebecca. Jim and Rebecca have four grown children and eight grandchildren.

Connie Walle

Connie is president of the Puget Sound Poetry Connection and coordinates the Distinguished Writer Series in Tacoma. She began writing about 1970 when she created special greeting cards with special poems. She was first published in a Tacoma literary quarterly named Aristos, and since then her poems have been published in multiple local, national, and international publications, including Womankind, Raven Chronicles, PoetsWest, Talus and Scree, A Small Garlic Press, Dark Orchid, Writing for Our Lives, Tahoma West,The Reporter, Green Tricycle, Apricorn, the American Journal of Pain (under the Journal of the American Medical Association), and The Raven Chronicles. She has also been published in the following anthologies and books: Ars Veritatis (anthology from The Philosophy Club of the U of Maine), Through the Year with Feelings, Heart Rise (Windstar Foundation). She is also published in two books of hers, Not For Children, and Checking My Pockets for Mustard. She has been president and the driving force behind Puget Sound Poetry Connection. She also runs the teen contest, “In Our Own Words” with the Pierce County Library, and Pierce Transit. She is the 2003 winner of the Faith Beamer Cooke Award from the Washington Poets Association for service to the poetry community.