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SUMMARY:Skagit River Poetry Foundation Festival\, Featured Poet
DESCRIPTION:Skagit River Poetry Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 13th Biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival brings together a vibrant community of poets and poetry enthusiasts. This renowned event\, hosted in La Conner\, WA\, showcases a diverse range of voices\, celebrating the power and beauty of poetry. During the festival\, attendees will experience performances\, readings\, workshops\, and discussions led by acclaimed poets\, fostering a spirit of unity and creativity. The gathering serves as a testament to the enduring impact of poetry\, inviting participants to engage\, reflect\, and connect through language.\nOUR MISSION: To support lifelong literacy and cultural diversity through the writing\, reading\, performing\, and teaching of poetry in Northwest Washington schools and communities.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkagit River Poetry Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead about our Festival Poets here!\nTo learn more\, please visit our Festival page at www.skagitriverpoetry.org/festival-2026\n 
URL:https://www.karabriggs.com/event/skagit-river-poetry-foundation-festival-invited-poet/
LOCATION:Marble Hall\, 104 Commercial St.\, La Connor\, 98257\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Reader
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SUMMARY:Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Kara Briggs launches You and I\, and Spilyay in a special evening at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation In Southeast Portland. She is joined by poet Joan Kane and author Ursula Pike. \nJoan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak and kin villages of the Qawairaq region. Kane’s books of poetry include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife (2009)\, Hyperboreal (2013)\, Milk Black Carbon (2017)\, Dark Traffic (2021)\, and with snow pouring southward past the window (2026) in addition to the prose and poetry chapbooks The Straits (2013)\, Sublingual (2018)\, A Few Lines in the Manifest (2018)\, Another Bright Departure (2019)\, and Ex Machina (2023). Their co-edited volumes include the Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (2017)\, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic (2025)\, and the forthcoming Colonialism and the Environment: Pasts\, Presents\, Futures in 2027. Kane’s recent honors include the 2026 Shelley Memorial Award\, a 2025 United States Artist Fellowship\, and the 2023 Paul Engle Prize from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature. Kane has raised two children as a single mother in Alaska\, Massachusetts\, and Oregon\, and now servers as Chair and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College.
URL:https://www.karabriggs.com/event/native-arts-and-cultures-foundation-book-launch/
LOCATION:Native Arts and Cultures Foundation\, 800 SE 10th Avenue\, Portland\, WA\, United States
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