The Beacon Bards poetry series returns to The Station coffee house this Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. with a reading by two local women poets, Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy.

Agodon is the author of Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room, winner of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Prize in Poetry, and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her other credits include Small Knots, Geography, and co-editing Fire On Her Tongue: an eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry. Kelli is a co-editor of the Seattle literary journal Crab Creek Review, and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press.

Annette Spaulding-Convy‘s collection In Broken Latin is a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She previously wrote the chapbook In The Convent We Become Clouds, which won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Along with Kelli Russell Agodon she is a co-editor of Crab Creek Review, co-founder and co-editor of Two Sylvias Press, and co-editor of the Fire On Her Tongue anthology.