Writers on the Spit host the Fourth Friday Readings, featuring nurse practitioner Risa Denenberg and psychiatrist Al Phillips, M.D., on Sept. 25.

The free event is in the media room at The Lodge, 660 Evergreen Farm Way, off Fifth Avenue, starting at 6:30 p.m.

Both readers have been long time medical experts practicing in the local community and beyond.

Denenberg has worked for four decades with people whose health care needs including HIV/AIDS care, end-of-life care and chronic pain management. She works at Jamestown Family Health Center. Her poetry often portrays aging and suffering.

Denenberg reviews poetry for the American Journal of Nursing, is a co-founder of Headmistress Press and contributes verse to many print and online journals. In addition to poetry, she has published three chapbooks as well as a full length book, “Mean Distance from the Sun.”

Phillips practices psychiatry in Sequim. His poetry has appeared in the King County Medical Society Bulletin. He is developing two projects: first, a memoir which is in part about growing up in the Great Depression and his struggles with ADD and dyslexia, and second, a project he calls “What My Patients Have Taught Me: The Life of a Psychiatrist.”

An hour of 5-minute open mic readings follows the two guest writers. Those interested in reading sign in and names are drawn for reading position.

For guidelines, contact rmarcus@olypen.com.