Foray at Lunarium

Foray for The Arts #2 @ Lunarium
Stop by to support local creative minds at a local business. Featured performers include: Mery Smith, J.T. Greathouse, Brandon T. Sullivan, Asyia Gover, Jewels Dietrich, and Jake Tyler. Co-hosted by local Spokane literary artists Sarah Rooney and Greg Bem. With a special presentation by Dorian Karahalios of the Spokane Print and Publishing Center.

Mery Smith
Mery Smith is the newest Spokane Poet Laureate 23-25′. The author of one chapbook crumbs whose work has been featured in the anthologies; Listen to your mother-Pivot and Pause, and other publications all over PNW. Through her workshops she is hoping to bring poetry into all the spaces we wouldn’t normally consider poetic.

J.T. Greathouse
J.T. Greathouse is the BFA nominated author of the PACT & PATTERN trilogy: THE HAND OF THE SUN KING, THE GARDEN OF EMPIRE, and THE PATTERN OF THE WORLD (forthcoming August, 2023). In addition to writing, he has been a student in Beijing, an ESL instructor in Taipei, a bookseller, and a high school English teacher. His short fiction has appeared, often as Jeremy A. TeGrotenhuis, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, IGMS, and elsewhere.

Brandon T. Sullivan
Brandon T. Sullivan is a poet, writer, editor, barista, husband, and father. With over two decades of writing experience across a variety of disciplines, genres, and topics, Brandon enjoys using spoken word to analyze morality, culture, faith, love, romance, and relationships. He has 3 self-published books of poetry on Amazon and is working on a fourth.

Asyia Gover

Asyia Gover is a writer, artist, educator, and mediator. Her poetry has appeared in the multimedia collection, SEXT, and anthology zines such as Love and Outrage. She has written and co-directed three stage plays for youth performers. She and her feline familiar, Cora, have made a home in the liminal space between eastern and western Washington State.

Jewels Dietrich

The Divine Jewels is a queer disabled artist with a passion for interactive performance art and more. She is also the Goddess Mother who started the Spokane Burlesque scene too many moons ago by bringing her New York flavor and plethora of exciting talents. She enjoys connecting with people and showing them the beauty that is both inside and outside of themselves. You can find this unique gem on her Facebook and IG

@thedivinejewels

Jake Tyler

Jake Tyler is an artist in the Spokane region of the Pacific Northwest. He specializes in spoken word poetry and some slam. He is a musician and songwriter. A lot of his visualizations stem from a mix of raw empirical data and ethereal underpinnings. Poetically he has no solid influences. As a musician he has influences such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, and Alice In Chains.