Jonathan Treadway (photo by Mary Slocum)

Jonathan Treadway was born a preacher’s son but went on to fail at the family business. Sometime in the 1990s he was witness to an Abraham Lincoln impersonator preach the gospel and play hymns on a saw; he has not been the same since. A poet, painter and musician Treadway grew up in the same town that horror director John Carpenter and 1980s professional wrestler Hillbilly Jim are from.Treadway has played dirty rock n roll on stages all over the south. He has published two collections of poetry, Dirty Clay on Sunday Shoes (Sad Bastard Publications, 2010), and The Blue Life Sketches (Throwback Books, 2009) and has been featured in literature journals both print and online.Treadway has even roadied for the Charlie Daniels band. His favorite singers are Hank Williams and Tony Bennett and his favorite bourbon is Four Roses. A lifelong brother of Kentucky, Treadway now is an expat recently settling in Portland.

Tommy Gaffney

Tommy Gaffney was born and raised in Kentucky, somewhere between the projects and the trailer parks.  He is the author of two collections of poetry and prose:  Whiskey Days (2010) and Three Beers from Oblivion (2006).  His work has appeared in The Night Bomb Review, The Drunk Poets Society Anthology; Volume 2 and The Broken Word Anthology; Volumes 1 & 2.  He has performed at the Insomniacathon, Wordstock, Columbia Gorge Community College, KBOO radio, and hosted the annual Artists Night Out Spoken Word Festival at Artists Repertory Theater.  In 2010, Tommy was nominated for the Oregon Book Award for Poetry.  Gaffney’s favorite colors are John Deere Green and Joey Ramone Black.

Lantz Moore

Featuring Leah Noble Davidson and Jeff Ettlin’s Star Wars Poetry Band plus local slam, surrealist and traditional poets

Dan Raphael

The kind & flexible folks of Show & Tell Gallery have given me the whole hour of their usual 3 Friends feature to more fully celebrate my new book, The State I’m In. I’ll do all 3 sets, 1 for each of the 3 sections of the book–city, rain/ocean, & etc

Willy the Shake

Join us at 7pm on the comfy couches at Three Friends coffeehouse for informal readings of plays authored by famous and not-so-famous wordsmiths.

This week:   The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance

Miguel Robles is an artisan, poet & activist. He was born in Mexico City and lived for almost 10 years in San Francisco until relocating to Portland recently.  He has been active in successful campaigns related to globalization, human rights, environment and democracy. His first anthology At 24th & Mission, Poesia Local con Esencia Global was released in 2010 by Jambu Press. Miguel was a finalist  in the 2010 Poets 11 contest  in San Francisco and he was included in the first Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthology the same year.

margareta waterman dabbles in all the arts, and mixes them up when she can; her best love, always, is words, and the multiple ways they dance. from this naturally followed creating and producing live theatre, books, recordings, archives and so on, for herself and colleagues.  nine muses books/nine muses mystery theatre, which she started in 1987, has published and produced works of over 50 artists, not excluding herself.  now semi-retired in the oregon woods, she maintains a presence in poetry worlds.

 

Michael Mendenhall

michael mendenhall plays innumerable instruments, both musical and social, in innumerable venues around the world.  he engineers both recordings and factories, makes tea in the chinese manner, and is always ready for music.

David Parker

david parker plays music and manages small woodlands.  his influence and inspiration contributes to environmental consciousness in rural southern oregon, and his grass roots music keeps local audiences alert  and dancing.  he seldom plays in portland; when he does, he is much admired.