The upcoming Poetrybridge reading, POEMS & TALES, approaches, this Wednesday, Feb. 23, and this time features two poets, Terry Johnson and Mishabae. Fourth Wednesday poetry and storytelling readings take place at C&P Coffee, 5612 California Avenue SW in West Seattle.

Featured readers start at 7:00PM followed by Open Mic. Sign-ups for Open Mic starts at 6:45 PM. Open Mic is generally from 8-9 PM. Open Mic will accommodate the first 10 people that sign up with about 5 minutes each or more time if fewer people sign up.

According to the Poetrybridge website:

Terry Johnson is a Vietnam veteran. He learned early that emotions only caused problems and learned to bury them deep in his mind. He applied this through life, business and marriage only to find late in life that it wasn’t working.

While wandering through his mind on a journey of self, he found an opened door that had been there a very long time. One day he decided to open that door, discovering a whole new world. It allowed creativity and emotions out into the light.

He has embraced these new ideas and in 2005 started expressing this new found creativity in painting, writing poetry, stories and plays. He is a member of Floating Mountain Poets. He lives in Kirkland, Washington. In December of 2010, he published his first book of poetry “Wanderings of My Mind”.

Mishabae is a yoga instructor, massage therapist, and published author in her field. Writing poetry was always a private affair hidden between the hard back covers of her life journal. Calling it "Art Therapy" for lack of a better word, she first read in public at the encouragement of her friends - a rowdy company of poets and artists first met while performing with The Little Red Studio.