

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: SoulFood Poetry Night featuring Melanie Reed and Art Gomez
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Welcome the new year with poetry! Join us for SoulFood Poetry Night at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 15, 2026, at SoulFood CoffeeHouse in Redmond, Washington. Tonight’s poets are MELANIE REED and ART GOMEZ. Please bring your own poems for our open mic. Admission is FREE.

MELANIE REED is a writer and visual artist with a creative writing BA from the University of Washington. Publication credits include the prose poetry collection, Wholehearted Half-Truths, a speculative fiction/psychological suspense novella, Every Other Day, and a graphic novel/epic poem/soul collage book artwork, The Scrapbook of Dreams (in the University of Washington’s Suzzallo Library special collections). She lives in Seattle, Washington.

ART GOMEZ was born and crazed in Omaha, Nebraska, where he subjected schoolmates to a bad pun cartoon, “The Further Adventures of Cliché Man.” In Seattle, Washington, since 1981, he is now retired from the field of developmental disabilities. He has been published by various entities you may have heard of and certainly some you have not. Art is a former host of PoetsWest at Seattle’s Green Lake Library.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/redmond/soulfood-poetry-night-featuring-melanie-reed-and-art-gomez/200029501877134
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, open-mic, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029501877134?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=redmond-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Redmond
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: SoulFood CoffeeHouse and Fair Trade Emporium
- **lat**: 47.675140780037
- **long**: -122.13065385818
- **full address**: SoulFood CoffeeHouse and Fair Trade Emporium, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA 98052-3830, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** SoulFood CoffeeHouse and Fair Trade Emporium, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA 98052-3830, United States
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, open-mic, trips-adventures
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about SoulFood Poetry Night featuring Melanie Reed and Art Gomez ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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