Poetry Reading: Washington State Poet Laureate Derek Sheffield
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Poetry Reading: Washington State Poet Laureate Derek Sheffield
Thursday, September 24 at 6:00pm
Port Townsend Library
Join Washington State Poet Laureate, Derek Sheffield, for an evening of poetry at the Port Townsend Library Thursday, September 24 at 6pm. Derek Sheffield is the 8th poet laureate of Washington State. He received a 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. His other collections include Not for Luck, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, Through the Second Skin, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance and Democracy. A professor of English at Wenatchee Valley College, he can often be found in the woods along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range near Leavenworth, Washington. He edits poetry for Terrain.org. The Washington State Poet Laureate program is jointly sponsored by the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA) and Humanities Washington. This program is also made possible through the support of The Friends of the Port Townsend Library.
