Charles Leggett is a professional actor based in Seattle, WA. His poetry has been published in over three dozen journals in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His long poem “Premature Tombeau for John Ashbery” was an e-chapbook in the Barnwood Press “Great Find” series. Other writing projects/experience include a play, The River’s Invitation, most recently featured at Seattle’s Theatre Off Jackson as part of its inaugural Solo Performance Festival, “SPF 1: No Protection!” in March 2007. Charles also spent three years as lyricist/frontman for the Seattle blues band Uncle Ed’s Molasses Jam, and has written, co-arranged, and performed blues tunes for the Sandbox Radio Orchestra and 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival; three of his blues lyrics have been published or are forthcoming in literary journals.