| Nancy
Rekow,
mother
of four, widely published, award-winning poet & Bainbridge
resident over 46 years, began writing poetry 39 years ago in Bob
McAllister's inspirational night workshop. Since then she has
led workshops on Bainbridge and in community colleges for adults &
students of all ages & served as a poet-in-the-schools, also
organizing readings, contests, displays, radio readings & poetry
contests along the way. Many of her students have published and
won awards. She holds a BA in English Literature from Oberlin
College and an MA in Education from Bank Street College in New York
City.
For
the Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council, she created &
directed the NORTHWEST POETS & ARTISTS CALENDAR project from
1986-1991. As editor & consultant, she has helped many
people write, edit, & publish books of poetry, stories, history,
& memoirs, including Island of Geese & Stars, 80
Candles, No Single Story, Ferry Tales from Puget Sound,
& Minnie Rose Lovgreen's Recipe for Raising Chickens.
Currently
she teaches poetry & prose workshops for beginning &
experienced writers, edits manuscripts, & tutors students of all
ages in writing & English. Recently she has taught poetry in
the Bainbridge schools to 1st, 5th, and 7th graders sponsored by
the Bainbridge Island Arts Education Consortium, PTO, and Bainbridge
Foundation.
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Everett
Thompson came to
Bainbridge Island from a family of preachers and tobacco growers in
North Carolina, where he fell in love with reading at the Olivia
Rainey Public Library across from the sleepy state capitol.
A Methodist minister's
son, he moved every five or six years, graduated from Roxboro High
School, attended Duke University, and got an MA in English from the
University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.
After two years in the
U.S. Army during the Cuban missile crisis era, he taught for a year in
rural Greenwood School in North Carolina, practice taught at Stadium
High School in Tacoma and then English, American Studies, and
sometimes journalism at Bainbridge High School from 1968-1999. He
compiled a music collection called the Bainbridge High School
Anthology of American Music for the use of students and faculty,
helped Nancy Rekow, who taught him how to write poetry, select the
poems for Island of Geese & Stars. Some of his poems have
been published in The Bellingham Review, Poetry Now, Poetry
Corners, and other poetry journals. He has one daughter, Jennifer,
and three sons--Matt, John, a freshman at Evergreen State College, and
Duncan, a ninth-grader at BHS.
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