Pacific time
Wilderbee Farm and Meadery
223 Cook Avenue
Port Townsend, WA 98368
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join for the final gathering of the series with readings by Rick Barot, Melissa Kwasny and Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
The readings will be conducted outdoors. Attendees are encouraged to dress accordingly and bring chairs or blankets for seating.
Rick Barot
Rick Barot is the author of Moving the Bones. He was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.His fourth book of poems The Galleons was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. It was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library, was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Awards, and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Tacoma, Washington.
Melissa Kwasny
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, which contains a set of poems that won the Poetry Society of America’s 2008 Cecil Hemly Award.
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