Featured Reader

Kara is partnering with Whitefoot Studio and the Yakama Nation to hold a reading in its Harrah antique store. The readings is for Yakama elders, including Kara's family, to hear […]

Kara is the featured Teader along with poets Paula Peterson, former Oregon Poet Laureate, and Sandy Yannone, Poet Laureate of Town of Old Saybrook, Connecticut at this respected, sophisticated independent […]

washingtonhistory Feb. 28 Kara Briggs (Sauk-Suiattle) has spent decades telling stories—first as a journalist, now as a poet. A resident of the Tulalip Reservation and a descendant of the Yakama […]

I am the featured reader at the Washington Historical Society store. Rivers in My Veins asks readers to reconsider the history they know or think they know about the lands […]

SWWIM-Cultivating Voices Reading during AWP featuring 30 women poets, in Downtown Los Angeles

Kara is reading at the spectacular Columbia River Maritime Museum in beautiful Astoria, Oregon.

Thrilled to be invited to read at the Yakima Coffeehouse Poets on March 12. Very excited to be in Yakima for this reading, near to my friends and family on […]

I will be honored to read from Rivers in My Veins and new works at the landmark Hibulb Cultural Center.

The Bookstore in Haines Alaska is featuring a reading by Kara Briggs from Rivers in My Veins. Kara has tied through marriage to Haines and the Tlingits from the Chilkat […]

Invited by Librarian Monica Jackson sister of my MFA Director at the Institute of American Arts, the National Book Award finalist Deborah Jackson Taffa. Reading from Rivers in My Veins, […]

Kara to read from Rivers in My Veins at the Sno-Isle Library In Arlington Wa