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Poetry in the Harbor

Annual National Poetry Month gathering at TCC's Gig Harbor campus.
Thursday, April 18, 6-9pm

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TCC CE is delighted to announce the return of Poetry in the Harbor, an event celebrating National Poetry Month. This year's event will feature four local poets, 亚莎伯克, 凯瑟琳·伯德, Josie Emmons Turner, and 迈克尔Haeflinger, who will each share their work with the audience. Following the readings, there will be a panel Q&一个会话 where attendees can engage with the poets and learn more about their creative processes. Join us for an evening of inspiration and appreciation for the power of poetry.

课程费用:25美元
Date: April 18, 2024
时间:6 pm-9pm
Location: 吉格港校园

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Join us for an evening of poetry!  Featuring readings by: 

亚莎伯克 

亚莎伯克 is a poet and educator living in Tacoma, Washington. They are the Director for Educational Partnerships for Write253 and teach poetry at Tacoma School of the 艺术. Find them riding his bike around town or sitting by the Sound gluing leaves 写到他们的日记里.

凯瑟琳·伯德 

凯瑟琳·伯德 was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and has lived in Olympia 30多年来. She is a mother, daughter, sister, auntie, and a teacher of writing at South Puget Sound Community College. She holds an MFA from Western Washington University. Her poetry explores insights garnered from deep relationships to place, attention to dreams, and a longing for matrilineal wisdom. She co-authored two chapbooks of postcard poems in correspondence with Dan Leahy, Hand it Over, 1st and 2nd editions. Her poems have appeared in Subjectiv, UnspokenNW, Crosscurrents, Pontoon, Works in Progress, The City of Olympia’s Bus Stop poetry, and Godiva Speaks. Her chapbook collection, Hold the Babies was a finalist for Finishing Line Press’s Emerging Women’s Voices 廉价的小册子比赛. She was awarded a Sue Boynton Poetry Award in Bellingham in 2021 and is the current poet laureate of Olympia, Washington.

Josie Emmons Turner 

Josie Emmons Turner’s poems are most recently published in The Madrona Project IV: The Empty Bowl Cookbook, The Madrona Project V: Art in a Public Voice, and Now That You Are Gone from This World (Poet’s Choice). She has taught poetry workshops to youth and adults and is a contributor to West Sound Magazine. She lives on a beautiful estuary feeding into Gig Harbor with her show dog, Gabbie, gardens, practices French cooking, and is a former Tacoma Poet Laureate (2011-2013).

迈克尔Haeflinger

迈克尔Haeflinger is the author of Low Static Rage (Blue Cactus Press, 2019), the chapbooks The Days Before and Love Poem for the Everyday (Dog On A Chain Press, 2014 and 2011), and the audio book Let’s Don’tBe Crazy (2016). 他住在塔科马.

Emcee: Allen Braden 

Allen is the author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood as well as Elegy in the 被动语态. Allen has published in The Times Literary Supplement, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, The Hudson Review, Orion and elsewhere. 他的作品 received awards, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the 艺术 and a writer’s residency at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 他教过 at Tacoma Community College since 2000.