Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna welcome poets Scot Siegel and Jessica Morey-Collins for February’s First Friday Poetry Night!

First Friday Poetry Night! is a poetry series featuring an ever changing slate of talented local poets hosted by Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna. Catch us each First Friday at 7pm in the heart of VDA’s Art Walk. Drop by early to browse the books, soak in the art, and pick up some delicious treats upstairs at Short & Sweet before the show.

Scot Siegel is a city planner and author of four full-length books of poetry, most recently, Tender Currencies, winner of the 2024 Sally Albiso Award from Concrete Wolf-MoonPath Press, and The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2016). He has received fellowship residencies through Oregon State University and Playa at Summer Lake, and his poems appear in Nimrod, Terrain, High Desert Journal, and San Pedro River Review, among others. www.scotsiegel.com

Jessica Morey-Collins is a poet and land use planner. She is the author of the chapbook We Were More than Kindling (Black Lawrence Press, 2023). Jessica’s poems can be found in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Cotton Xenomorph, Maudlin House, Hobart, Tinderbox, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. Jessica was awarded an MFA in poetry at the University of New Orleans.