Join us at 6:00 p.m. on December 18, 2025 for SoulFood Poetry Night, in our 20th year of monthly poetry readings at SoulFood CoffeeHouse in Redmond, Washington. Tonight’s poetry performances are by three Jack Straw Writers: BILL HOLLANDS, NHATT NICHOLS, and CONNOR WATKINS-XU. Please bring your own poems for our open mic. Admission is FREE.
BILL HOLLANDS’s recent poems have appeared in such journals as The Adroit Journal, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, Rattle, The Florida Review, Diagram, Boulevard, and Plume, as well as on The Slowdown podcast. His debut poetry collection, Mangrove, was published in the fall of 2025.
NHATT NICHOLS is a multidisciplinary journalist, poet, and artist whose work focuses on the intersections of humans, animals, and their environment. Her first book, the graphic poem This Party of the Soft Things, is awaiting its third printing. Her first novella, Burn Morels, is forthcoming.
CONNOR WATKINS-XU’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, North American Review, Redivider, Columbia Journal, Gargoyle, The Hong Kong Review, Salvation South, and elsewhere. His manuscript has been named a semifinalist for the Berkshire Prize and The Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry.
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