Tonight's featured readers are Emmett Wheatfall, Eric Fair-Layman and Diego Giovanni. Your host is Benjamin Fisher.
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Emmett Wheatfall lives in Portland, Oregon where he writes, records, publishes, and performs poetry. Twice nominated for Oregon Poet Laureate and is the winner of the prestigious 2024 Oregon Poetry Association Patricia Ruth Banta Award. Press, an imprint of Barclay Press has published 3 books of Emmett's poetry. His collection titled As Clean as a Bone was published in May 2018. As Clean as a Bone was a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist as well as a da Vinci Eye award finalist. Our Scarlet Blue Wounds was published in November 2019. Our Scarlet Blue Wounds examines American “Exceptionalism” in light of political, social, and economic constructs in America. Published in June 2022, With Extreme Prejudice: Lest We Forget examines the early days of COVID-19. Published is his first chapbook titled First Among Beautiful Stars and released in September 2023.
emmettwheatfall.com
Diego is a Chicano poet from South Central Los Angeles, now in Portland, Oregon. Deeply influenced by Miguel Piñero, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Nikki Giovanni. His work blends political urgency with lyrical intimacy. Diego’s poetry addresses the struggles of Black and Brown communities, the weight of silence, and the complexity of love in a broken world.
He has self published 2 books, "I Choose Fire" and "We Were Here Before Your Borders". Known for his raw delivery and unapologetic voice, Diego writes because silence is no longer an option and many still remain silent. He can be found at various open-mics and poetry slams around the Portland area at any given time and is the co-founder of a spanish/bilingual open mic that gathers monthly, Boca Ardiente, in an effort to give the unrepresented in the city a place to be heard.
Eric Fair-Layman is a living poet and spoken-word performer based in Portland, Oregon, who appears under the stage name, Papasquatch. He has recently self-published a book called Cathartic Musings & Do-It-Yourself Revenge Poetry: a Workbook of Poems Prompts, Templates, & Other Trojan Horses.
His work has appeared in Tom Hiron's poetry journal Clarion and on his mother's fridge, where only the best (& only Eric's) poems get placed. Eric is active at open mics (he co-hosts the Humble Poets Open Mic with Debra Elisa), co-hosts The Mythic Lens Podcast,
He was a featured speaker at the April 5 Hands Off protest in Vancouver, Washington and is available as a speaker for events. Catch him on instagram @papa_squatch2229