Join Rae Armantrout, Kay Ryan, and Heather McHugh at Wilder Bee Farm’s Poetry on the Salish Sea series.
Rae Armantrout will be reading from, and discussing her new collection, Go Figure, available Aug 8, 2024 through Wesleyan Univ. Press; find out more here.
“This summer Wilderbee is thrilled to host Poetry On The Salish Sea ~ monthly poetry readings in our meadery garden June-September by poets from around the Olympic Peninsula and beyond. Poetry On The Salish Sea celebrates the natural abundance and strong literary arts community in our region. See full schedule and poet bios below.
Seating is limited so feel free to bring your own lawn chair. This FREE poetry series is hosted by Wilderbee Farm, sponsored by The Production Alliance, Imprint Bookstore, Centrum, and curated by writer and poet Kathryn Hunt.”
Rae Aramantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists and Conjure. Her collection Versed won a National Book Award. a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in countless anthologies including Best American Poetry, In The American Tree and Language Poetries.
from Wilderbee’s event page about the other poets:
Born in California in 1945, Kay Ryan is acknowledged as one of the most original voices in the contemporary literary landscape. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Flamingo Watching (2006), The Niagara River (2005), and Say Uncle (2000). Her book The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Ryan’s tightly compressed, rhythmically dense poetry is often compared to that of Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore. She was appointed as U.S. Poet Laureate in 2008 and held the position for two terms, using the appointment to champion community colleges like the one in Marin County, California where she and her partner Carol Adair taught for over thirty years.
Heather McHugh is a beloved American poet and the author of Dangers, To the Quick, Muddy Matterhorn, and Upgraded to Serious, among other books. McHugh is the recipient of prestigious awards from both the MacArthur Foundation (“Genius Award”) and Griffin Poetry Prize. She began writing poetry at age five and became an expert eavesdropper by the age of twelve, an indispensable gift for a writer. At the age of 17, she entered Harvard University. She taught for 40 years at American colleges and universities, including the University of Washington in Seattle. McHugh wrote: If you’re a poet smitten with English, you love it for its drive and not its drone. The rhythms of a language must be irresistible—while the humdrums of it have to be resisted.
