Join poets John Brandi and Renée Gregorio at the Entropy Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico for an event hosted by Floating Words Poetry. The evening will include a potluck hosted by Floating Words Poetry at 6:00 PM, and a reading from the poets starting at 7:00 PM. Email floatingwordspoetry@gmail.com to RSVP for the event; there will be free Broadsides for the first 50 Attendees, plus a Rare Chapbook Raffle.

Jerry Martien, author of Waveshock and editor of A Watershed Runs Through You, will be reading in Corvallis, Oregon, on June 10, at 5:30 p.m. at the Toomey Lobby at PRAx at Oregon State University. Thanks to the Spring Creek Project and Grass Roots Books and Music for sponsoring this event.

Join us on Sunday, June 1 at 4 p.m., for a reading by Ann Spiers and Kate Reavey. Ann will read from her new book Wild Cucumber, and Kate will read from Curve.

Friends Meetinghouse in Port Townsend

1841 Sheridan Avenue

Andrew Schelling reads from his two new books: a translation from Sanskrit of Songs of Mirabai and his recent collection of poems, Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers, from Empty Bowl.

Tuesday May 13, 6:00 p.m. BOLINAS LIBRARY, 14 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA (415-868-1171)

We’ll be at the Raymond Carver Writing Festival in Clatskanie, Washington, on Saturday May 3, to participate in the Publishers and Writers Fair.

Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Find more details about the festival here.

Join us for the launch of Ann Spiers’s latest collection, Wild Cucumber: New and Selected Poems.
Vashon Land Trust Building, 10014 SW Bank Rd. on Vashon Island.
We’ll be on hand to celebrate and sell books. Come enjoy the poems and gather in the Land Trust's backyard garden.

Join Kurt Hoelting from a reading from Apprentice to the Wild on Sunday, April 27, 2:00 p.m. at Griffin Bay Books in Friday Harbor.

Come hear Holly J. Hughes and Gary Thompson at Pelican Bay Books read from their own work and the work of Tom Crawford, from Be Broken to Be Whole, which Empty Bowl published in 2024.

Please join us at Peninsula College for a reading by Kurt Hoelting from his recent release, Apprentice to the Wild.

Studium Generale Reading Series

1502 502 E Lauridsen Blvd

Port Angeles, WA 98362

Commercial fisherman, wilderness guide and meditation guru Kurt Hoelting presents his new book Apprentice to the Wild. See the Eagle Harbor Books website for more details.

Join us at Third Place Books for a reading by Kurt Hoelting from Apprentice to the Wild.

17171 Bothell Way NE #A101

Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

A Pacific Zen Luminaries Series Online Event

Dancing with the Dead with Translator Red Pine (Bill Porter)

You can register here.

Please join us for a public reading with Kurt Hoelting from Apprentice to the Wild.

Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue.

Harding Building, room 142, at 6 p.m.

Hosted by: Jason Wirth, Chair of Philosphy

Please join us at the Friends’ Meeting house for a reading from two books focused on Southeast Alaska. Kurt Hoelting reads from his recently released book Apprentice to the Wild, and Tele Aadsen reads from her award-winning What Water Holds. The reading will be followed by a conversation between the authors and a book signing.

1841 Sheridan St., Port Townsend, WA

We are excited for the official release of Kurt Hoelting’s latest book, Apprentice to the Wild! Please join us for a reading and book launch celebration.

3:00 - 5:00pm

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island

20103 State Route 525 Freeland, WA

Join us for a reading at the Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Avenue in Port Townsend. Andrew Schelling will read from his new book Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers. Tim McNulty will read from Cloud Studies and Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain. Hope to see you there.

Reading & Reception with Visiting Poet & Translator Andrew Schelling and Seattle Poet & Translator Sibyl James

Thursday, December 5, 2024, 7 – 9 p.m.

Oberto Commons (second floor of the Sinegal Center)

On the Campus of Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle.

PELICAN BAY BOOKS 520 Commercial, Anacortes

From American tall tales and Native American myths to Mexican fables, Russian fairy tales and beyond, Will Hornyak weaves a wide web of beautifully created stories from oral traditions around the world. Anna Odessa Linzer has always lived along the Salish Sea. Her deep connection with the Pacific Northwest is reflected in both her poems and her fiction. Empty Bowl Press published her latest poetry volume, A Season Unleashed in April 2024.

Get ready (read-y) for the rainy season with a stack of books to keep you cozy through the winter. Join a delightfully bookish group of regional small publishers and book artists, presenting unique and important books for perusing and for sale. Give the gift of good reading to you and your beloveds! Support local publishing and small press innovation. Author readings throughout the day and book crafts for all ages.

Nourish the spirit and keep the craft alive. Featuring local and visiting Indie publishers and book artists, including:

Empty Bowl Press,
Winter texts,
Blue Cactus Press,
Snack Break Studio,
Anna Moore,
Stardust Press,
Entre Rios Books,
Jaiden Dokken

Free entry. All ages!

A reading from Be Broken to Be Whole in Santa Fe. 4:30 p.m. Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Gallisteo St., Santa Fe, NM. Hosted by Mary Judge, with readings of Tom Crawford’s poems by local writers and actors.

Join Sibyl James for a reading & tea tasting. Seattle Fair Trade, 6417 Roosevelt NE Seattle.

A reading from Be Broken to Be Whole, 6 p.m. Sacramento Poetry Center 1719 25th St. in Sacramento. Hosted by Gary Thompson.

Anna Odessa Linzer will give a reading featuring poems from Season Unleashed, published by Empty Bowl Press, discussion and reception after.

For tickets, use this link.

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

550 Winslow Way East Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Sibyl James will read from Plum Blossom Wine. Join us at the Seattle Chinese Garden, 6000 16th Ave. SW. Chan Education Center, Room 102 Seattle

Plum Blossom Wine, poems by Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao translated by Sibyl James and Kang Xuepei, gives voice to an important female Chinese poet writing in a time when literature was dominated by men. James and Kang bring a contemporary sensibility to their translations, reading Li not as scholars but as modern women. They offer the reader an intimate glimpse into Li’s life, letting these poems full of wistful longing resonate across the centuries like a temple bell just rung.

Join us at the Port Townsend Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan St. Port Townsend WA 98368 at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30.

Poet, birder, contemplative, and activist Tom Crawford, an integral part of the Oregon literary community in the 1990s, lived and taught throughout the western USA, and in China and South Korea. He published nine books of poems, including Lauds, The Temple on Monday, and The Names of Birds. He died in Santa Fe in 2018.

Be Broken To Be Whole, a handsomely designed and produced selection edited by his widow Mary Judge, with a foreword by David James Duncan.

On August 3, we'll celebrate the launch of the book at Passages Bookshop in Portland, OR, 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660. Friends and others will read selections from the poems. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Please join us!