August 25, 2024

Summer Sunday Readings 2024

June 30, 3 pm – Tanya Holtland, Anna Odessa Linzer, Cedar Sigo

July 28, 3 pm – Rae Armantrout, Heather McHugh, Kay Ryan

August 25, 3 pm – Luther Hughes, Erin Malone, Ruby Hansen Murray

September 29, 3 pm – Rick Barot, Melissa Kwasny, Jacqueline Allen Trimble

The Garden – Wilderbee Farm & Meadery
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Six extraordinary poetry readings, June to September.

Hosted by Wilderbee Farm
223 Cook Avenue Extension
Port Townsend, Washington

This summer Wilderbee Farm will host Poetry on the Salish Sea, monthly poetry readings by poets from around the Olympic Peninsula and beyond. See the full series schedule below and author bios at wilderbeefarm.com.

The readings will be outdoors in the Meadery garden. Seating is limited; get there early or bring a camp chair or blanket.

Poetry on the Salish Sea is sponsored by Wilderbee Farm, The Production Alliance, the Port Townsend Arts Commission, and the Imprint Bookstore.

The series is curated by Kathryn Hunt.

Please support Poetry on the Salish Sea – poetry and poets – with your generous donation to our GoFundMe. Thank you.

August 25, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Wilderbee Farm
223 Cook Avenue Extension

Port Townsend, Washington

Ruby Hansen Murray is a columnist for the Osage News and lives along the Columbia River. An Indigenous Native Poets, Hedgebrook and MacDowell fellow, she’s winner of the Iowa Review and Montana Prizes for creative nonfiction. Find her work in Ecotone, Pleiades, The Hopkins Review, Peauxdunque Review, River Mouth Review, and Moss. She’s a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations of Northeastern Oklahoma with West Indian roots. A student of Wah Zha Zhe ie, Osage language, her poems including or written in Osage were published by Broadsided Press, Yellow Medicine Review, and South Florida Poetry Journal.
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Ruby Hansen Murray
Erin Malone
Erin Malone

Erin Malone’s new book Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press 2023) was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She has received grants and fellowships from Artist Trust, 4Culture, Jack Straw, and the Colorado Council of the Arts. Formerly the editor of Poetry Northwest (2016-2020), she works as a bookseller on Bainbridge Island.

Luther Hughes is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022), listed as best books of 2022 in The New Yorker. They have been featured in The Seattle TimesEssenceForbesThe Paris Review, and more. They live in Seattle.

Luther Hughes
Luther Hughes