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Poet Carlos Martinez will read his works for the Gonzaga University community and the public at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 22, in Gonzaga’s Foley Center Teleconference Room. The event, sponsored by GU Live Poets, is free.

Martinez, who lives in Edmonds, Wash., is a native New Yorker. He teaches literature and creative writing at Western Washington University. He has been published locally in Cranky, Crab Creek Review, Poets West Literary Journal, Jeopardy and 4 th Street, as well as in the local anthologies Vox Populi (1999 Seattle Poetry Festival), Pontoon #5 (Floating Bridge Press), and The Sound Close In (2004 Skagit River Poetry Festival). He is also published nationally in Morpo Review, Yawp, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Black Bear Review, Poet Lore andFirefly, as well as in the anthology, An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11.

In 2000, Martinez was one of two featured poets at Poetrymagazine.com, and in 2004 he was a featured reader and participant at the Skagit River Poetry Festival. In 2003, he took second prize in the America’s Review Poetry Contest, judged by Jane Hirshfield. His chapbook, “The Cold Music of the Ocean,” was published in August 2004. He was recently selected as a 2005 Jack Straw Writing Fellow by Jack Straw Productions in Seattle.

For more information, contact Tod Marshall, assistant professor of English, at (509) 323-6681 or via e-mail.