Christopher Luna ’95 has been named the first poet laureate of Clark County, Wash., by the Clark County Arts Commission. A resident of Vancouver, Wash., Christopher is a poet, visual artist and editor. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Poetics at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., and currently serves as a writing consultant and poetry event coordinator for Washington State University Vancouver’s Writing Center, where he also teaches a weekly workshop. Christopher’s work has appeared in The New York Journal of Books, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Columbian, The Oregonian and Willamette Week. He co-edited Ghost Town Poetry, a collection of poems from a popular open-microphone poetry reading series he established in 2004. Christopher is frequently a featured reader at bookstores, nightclubs, libraries and coffee shops.
