For the Reporter

Poetry at The Station Bistro presents the works of Carolyn Martin and Jill Johnson on Monday, May 4.

The program is from 7-9 p.m. at the Bistro, 110 Second St. SW, No. 125, one block south of West Main Street, on the east side of the Auburn Transit Center.

Coffee and conversation follow readings. It is an open mic opportunity. The public is invited.

About the poets

From Roman Catholic nun and associate professor of English to management trainer and business writer, Martin’s life has taken her from coast to coast, from the classroom to the conference stage, from poetry to business writing and back again.

After retiring from the business world in 2008, she returned to her first love, poetry. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals. Martin lives in Clackamas, Ore., where she gardens, writes and plays with creative colleagues.

Johnson’s poetry collection, “Diary of the One Swelling Sea” (MoonPath Press, 2013), was awarded the 2014 Silver Award in Poetry from Nautilus Books. She is the series editor for the “Being What Makes You” from the University of Nebraska gender programs, including the anthologies, “Becoming: What Makes a Woman” (2012), essays and poems of pivotal life experiences that make us who we are today, and “Being: What Makes a Man” (2015), with meditations on the common phrase “Be a man,” from the University of Nebraska Gender Programs.

Johnson is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit, Artsmith, providing artist residencies, a reading series and other events. She earned her master’s degree in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University and her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, where she served as the Louise Van Sickle Fellow in Poetry.

Poetry at The Station Bistro is made possible with the help of the restaurant, City of Auburn, The Auburn Arts Commission, Striped Water Poets and NorthWest Renaissance.