Join us for the last First Friday of the Summer season! This month at Birdhouse Books we'll be hosting John Sibley Williams, Emmett Wheatfall, and Kelli Russell Agodon in a truly incredible lineup. Show starts at 7pm!
John Sibley Williams is the author of nine poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). His book Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming in translated form by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. A twenty-seven-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. Visit him at https://www.johnsibleywilliams.com.
Emmett Wheatfall lives in Portland, Oregon. He writes, records, publishes, and performs spoken poetry to music. Fernwood Press, an imprint of Barclay Press has published 2 books of Emmett's poetry. His collection titled As Clean as a Bone was published in May 2018 through Fernwood Press. As Clean as a Bone was a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist as well as a da Vinci Eye award finalist. Our Scarlet Blue Wounds followed As Clean as a Bone and was published in November 2019. His new poetry book With Extreme Prejudice, Lest We Forget is slated for publication May 2022. For more biographical information visit http://emmettwheatfall.com.
Kelli Russell Agodon’s newest book is Dialogues with Rising Tides from Copper Canyon Press which was recently shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Poetry. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer. She lives in a sleepy seaside town in Washington State on traditional lands of the Chimacum, Coast Salish, S'Klallam, and Suquamish people where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is currently part of a project between local land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity called Writing the Land. www.agodon.com / www.twosylviaspress.com