520 Commercial, Anacortes

ANN SPIERS AND JESSICA GIGOT

We’re eager to share the exciting news that our first title for 2024 goes to the printer this week! Anna Odessa Linzer’s collection of poems, Season Unleashed will be released on April 9, with a launch celebration planned for April 19th at 7 pm at the Pope Building on the waterfront in Port Townsend.

VILLAGE BOOKS.     APRIL 8.       6-7PM. 

Readers include Tele Aadsen, Luther Allen, Jane Alynn, Michael Daley, Jessica Gigot, Georgia Johnson, Judy Kleinberg,Charles Chuck Luckmann, Bill Weissinger. 

For more infomation, see the Village Books website or check here.

The Bushwick Book Club will be performing music inspired by the anthology edited by Rena Priest, I Sing the Salmon Home, on March 16th at 7:30 pm at Town Hall in Seattle.

MADRONA SERIES POETRY READINGS

PELICAN BAY BOOKS

520 Commercial, Anacortes

Tele Aadsen, Luther Allen, Jane Alynn, Anne Basye, Deborrah Corr, Michael Daley, Steve Dolmatz, Judy Kleinberg, Adam Lafayette, Morgan Randall, Bob Rose, Cora Thomas, Bill Weissinger, Maggie Wilder, Georgia Johnson

Two Poet Laureates in Conversation! Seattle Civic Poet Shin Yu Paiand Port Townsend Poet Laureate Conner Bouchard-Roberts will discuss Shin Yu Pai's latest books and their respective roles as poet laureates. Join us Wednesday March 13 from 6 - 7:30 pm at the Jefferson County Library in Port Hadlock.

This event is in the community room at KSQM station in Sequim. Featured poets are:

Katherine Kennedy

Kate Reavey

Tom Harris

Eva McGinnis

Charlotte G. Warren

Laura Garrard

Alice Derry

Bill Ransom

Gary Bullock who will read his poem as well as one from Carol Anne Modena

The radio station is in the SE corner of Sequim Village Shopping Center, 609 W. Washington Street.

On Sunday, December 17, we’ll be holding a holiday pop-up sale at Finnriver Cidery in Chimacum. We’ll have an array of recent Empty Bowl books, lots of deals, and a Wandering Bard who will compose poems on the spot. We hope to see you there.

Please join Empty Bowl Press for a reading with two acclaimed poets and translators: Red Pine and John Brandi.

Port Townsend Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Street, Port Townsend, WA.

Join us for a reading & reception with acclaimed translator Bill Porter (Red Pine) and Haiku poet, artist, and translator John Brandi.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 from 7 – 9 pm

Oberto Commons (second floor of the Sinegal Center)

On the Campus of Seattle University

901 12th Avenue

Seattle, WA 98122

For convenient parking, enter the SU campus at the intersection of 12th Ave and  East Marion Street, which is the main entrance. Sinegal Center is on your left, and a parking lot will be on your right. Oberto Commons is on the 2nd floor of the Sinegal Center. 

Contributors reading from I Sing the Salmon Home, with a viewing of returning chum salmon run after reading.

Timberland Library, Shelton, WA

Madrona Poetry Series

Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA

Celebration/Reading for A Watershed Runs Through You

Mattole Community Center, Petrolia, CA

Launch/Reading for A Watershed Runs Through You: Essays, Talks and Reflections on Salmon, Restoration & Community by Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species

 Northtown Books, Arcata, CA

Join Us to Welcome the Salmon Home with a reading from I Sing the Salmon Home at Finnriver Farm & Cidery

Thursday September 14 2023 4:30 – 6 pm.

Reading will be:

Kelli Russell Agodon

Michele Bombardier

Ronda Piszk Broatch

Joanne Clarkson

Alice Derry

Alex Eisenberg

Tess Gallagher

Cathy Lear

Anne Murphy

Kate Reavey

Thena Westfall

Three local poets read from their books in this celebration of poetry and visual art. "She Who Walks the Earth," a new paperback book pairing poems by Kathryn Hunt with encaustic paintings by Loretta Libby Atkins, sparked this event. Hunt will read her poems; Kate Reavey will read from her new book "Curve," and Alice Derry will read from her poetry collection "Asking." Event-goers can also see Atkins' paintings up close. The reading will be held at the Cotton Building, 607 Water St., in Port Townsend.

Come hear poems from the anthology I Sing the Salmn Home the evening of June 22 at the Patagonia building in downtown Seattle. This Evening of Art, Poetry and Story Celebrating Salmon and Orca is cosponsored by Patagonia and Save our Wild Salmon, as well as Empty Bowl Press and Wandering Aengus Press, publisher of For Love of Orcas. You can register for this free event here.

Celebrate with us in Bellingham on Tuesday, June 20, at the Squalicum Boathouse, gathering at 5:30 p.m., with a reading and conversation beginning at 6. Tele Aadsen reads from her new book What Water Holds and is joined by Cami Ostman in a conversation.

Join editor Rena Priest and contributors to the anthology for a reading in Bellingham on Sunday, June 18, at the Squalicum Boathouse in Zuanich Point Park. We’ll gather to celebrate at 5:30.

Join Rebekah Anderson, author of The Grand Promise, at the Central Library, Spokane. She’ll be talking about research for her book at the Inland Northwest Special Collections.

Rebekah Anderson in conversation with Shawn Vestal, author of Daredevils and Godforsaken Idaho, at the Liberty Park Library in Spokane.

Join Rebekah Anderson, author of The Grand Promise, for the Friday evening Lit Walk and reading

Local author Rebekah Anderson will speak about her debut novel, “The Grand Promise” at Village Books in Bellingham, Wash.  The event starts t at 6 p.m. in the Readings Gallery.

“The Grand Promise” is a work of literary fiction about the real communities impacted by the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s, including the destruction of salmon runs and traditional sites of the local tribes along the Columbia River. Kirkus Reviews calls “The Grand Promise” “a thoughtful look at desperation brought about by early-20th-century American enterprise,” and Publishers Weekly says, “Anderson’s enthralling literary novel addresses the human cost of a Depression-era public works project in Washington.”

Registration is required for a reserved seat, and any remaining seats will be available at the door. A $5 ticket acts as a voucher toward the purchase of merchandise from Village Books. WWU students may attend free of charge.

Registration link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rebekah-anderson-the-grand-promise-tickets-628179520857

Join author Rebekah Anderson in a reading from The Grand Promise.

C&P Coffee in West Seattle on May 18.

Join us the closing reception for the exhibition Honor: People and Salmon with exhibiting artists and

Washington State Poet Laureate, Rena Priest

April 15th, 5:00-7:00pm Kittredge Gallery I University of Puget Sound

Tacoma, WA

Join us at the Washington State Capitol Building, the State Reception Room, to celebrate the launch of I Sing the Salmon Home, edited by Rena Priest. Check this website for directions.

Join us to celebrate the launch of I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, edited by Rena Priest. The reading takes place at the downtown Seattle Public Library. 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104.

To register for the reading, please use this link.

Empty Bowl Press showcases recent authors at a reading sponsored by Seattle University’s Philosophy Department

5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Casey Commons in the Casey Building

901 12th Ave

Reading will feature Kate Reavey, Ann Spiers, Rebekah Anderson, and Rena Priest

A reception and book signing will follow

Holly J. Hughes will host.

Join us to celebrate the posthumous publication of Mike O'Connor's Old Growth, New & Selected Poems with two of his good friends, Tim McNulty and Finn Wilcox.

Thursday, March 9  7 - 8:30 pm 

Manresa Castle Ballroom 

651 Cleveland St.  Port Townsend 

Reading followed by a Reception and Book Signing in The Green Room