Greg Bem

Greg Bem (he/him) currently resides in Spokane where he is a librarian at Spokane Community College, having recently arrived after 13 years in Seattle. In Fall 2023 he started Carbonation Press, and he is an active volunteer at Spark Central. Since 2010, Greg has co-designed, co-organized, and co-hosted countless arts and literary events, including The Breadline (Seattle), Five Alarms Lit Crawls (Seattle), Our City (Phnom Penh), Ghost Tokens (Seattle), View.Point (Seattle), and Reflexive Assembly (Seattle). He has collaboratively supported work by the New Philadelphia Poets, the Cascadia Poetics Lab (formerly the Seattle Poetics Lab) and Cascadia Poetry Festival, and the Poetic Arts Performance Project (PAPP). He is the author of several books, including Of Spray and Mist (Hand to Mouth, 2019), Green Axis (Alien Buddha, 2019), Like salt. Like a spine. (with Maung Day), and Pushing Through Glass (Carbonation, 2023).