PORT ANGELES — Just before taking a summer break, North Coast Writers will host another free First Tuesday reading.
Port Angeles High School special-education teacher Tim Roos and former smoke jumper Howard Chadwick will offer their poetry at Renaissance, the bluff-top cafe at 401 E. Front St.
Admission to the 7:30 p.m. reading is free.
Roos has published poems in journals such as The Raven Chronicles and Plainsongs, and in Tidepools, for which he won the poetry prize in 2008.
His work is about personal discoveries and Northwest experiences: from cutthroat trout to learning to read to pressing apples to an Eden Valley windstorm.
Chadwick, whose summer jobs have ranged from fire lookout in the Salmon National Forest to being a smoke jumper out of McCall, Idaho, has since worked as an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the Army and as a U.S. Forest Service researcher.
Now a resident of Dungeness, he’s a scenic-backdrop painter for local theater groups such as the Port Angeles Light Opera Association — or PALOA — and Olympic Theatre Arts.
He’s also the artist behind the mural at Second and Peabody streets in Port Angeles.
For more information about the North Coast Writers and its series of readings, phone Mary-Alice Boulter at 360-457-6410.