Redmond Association of SPokenword (RASP) will welcome Rebecca Meredith, as its featured reader at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26. The event is at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80th St.

Meredith is a poet, writer and psychotherapist, as well as a co-founder of RASP, and served as its coordinator and president for many years.

Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies and performed in such venues as the Burning Word Poetry Festival, the Seattle Moon Viewing Festival, Redmond’s Arts in the Park, and on KUOW’s The Beat. Her chapbook, Intergenerational Delta Blues, was published by Pudding House Press. She is a fellow of the Jack Straw Writers’ Program, an alumna of Hedgebrook Women Writers’ Colony, and was recently appointed the first Poet Laureate of the City of Redmond.