September 29, 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, Arianne True
September 29, 3 pm – Rick Barot, Melissa Kwasny, Spencer Reece
The Garden – Wilderbee Farm & Meadery
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.
September 29, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Wilderbee Farm
223 Cook Avenue Extension
Port Townsend, Washington
Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, was longlisted for the National Book Award. His collections include The Darker Fall, Want (a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and winner of the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize), and Chord, all from Sarabande Books. Rick’s work has appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Stanford University. He lives in Tacoma and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop. His newest book, Moving the Bones (Milkweed), will be published in 2024.
Melissa Kwasny is the author of seven collections of poems, including The Cloud Path, Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today, Pictograph, and The Nine Senses. A portion of Pictograph received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Kwasny is also the author of Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision, and has edited multiple anthologies, including Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800–1950 and, with M.L. Smoker, I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, among many other journals. She lives in Montana and is a former Montana Poet Laureate, a position she shared with M.L. Smoker.
Spencer Reece’s first book of poetry, The Clerk’s Tale, was selected by Louise Glück for the Bakeless Prize. His second collection, The Road to Emmaus, was long-listed for the National Book Award and short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Reece has also edited a bilingual anthology of poems by the children of Our Little Roses Home for Girls in Honduras, Counting Time Like People Count Stars; written a memoir, The Secret Gospel of Mark; and published a book of watercolors, All the Beauty Still Left. He is an Episcopal priest and has served in Honduras, Madrid, and New York City. He is the vicar of St. Paul’s Church in Wickford, Rhode Island. Acts, his third book of poetry, is the product of a decade of work and of a life acutely lived.
Poetry on the Salish Sea 2024 Readings
Poetry on the Salish Sea 2024 Series
Readings: June 30, July 28, August 25, September 29
