Peter Ludwin and Allen Braden are featured in November’s Poetry at the Rainbow Cafe program.

Readings begin at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 at the café, 112 E. Main St. It is free and open to the public.

An open mic session for the public follows.

About the poets

Ludwin is an avid traveler who has journeyed by canoe to visit remote Indian families in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador, hiked in the Peruvian Andes, thumbed for rides in Greece and bargained for goods in the markets of Marrakech and Istanbul. He spent nearly a month in 2011 visiting China and Tibet.

He is the recipient of a Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust and the W.D. Snodgrass Award for Endeavor and Excellence in Poetry. His first book was “A Guest in All Your Houses” (Word Walker Press). His second collection is “Rumors of Fallible Gods”, a two-time finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Award (Presa Press). In his latest book, “Gone To Gold Mountain” (MoonPath Press) Ludwin brings to life the little-known story of Chea Po and his fellow Chinese gold miners, massacred in 1887 by Eastern Oregon pioneers.

Braden is the author of “A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood” (University of Georgia) and “Elegy in the Passive Voice” (University of Alaska/Fairbanks), winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. His poems have been published online by Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, in The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, Orion, and elsewhere.

The program is made possible behind the combined efforts of the Rainbow Café, the Striped Water Poets, the NorthWest Renaissance, the Auburn Arts Commission, the City of Auburn, and King County 4Culture.