Kara Briggs

The Bookstore in Haines
2025-05-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Bookstore, 223 Main St Box 935, Haines, AK 99827, Haines, AK, United States
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 Valley.

Hibulb Cultural Center Reading
2025-05-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hibulb Cultural Center, 6410 23rd Ave NE, Tulalip, WA, 98271, United States
I will be honored to read from Rivers in My Veins and new works at the landmark Hibulb Cultural Center.

Washington Library Association Book Bash
2025-04-11 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Greater Tacoma Convention Center, 1500 Commerce Ave, Tacoma, WA, 98402, United States
I will be joining the WLA Book Bash will celebrate the vibrant talent of authors from Washington and the greater PNW! Rivers in My Veins!!

Cultivating Voices SWIMM Reading
2025-03-27 18:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | MG Studio, 1319 W.11s, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Reading a poem as part of this great show case of two of my favorite online poetry venues. At Pacific, a venue blocks from the LA Convention Center. More info to come.

AWP Conference and Bookfair
2025-03-27 08:00 - 2025-03-29 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figeroa St, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Find me at the Saint Julian Booth in the bookfair

Yakima Coffeehouse Poets
2025-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Yakima Coffeehouse, 3506 W Chestnut Ave, Yakima, WA, 98902, United States
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 Yakama Nation.

Columbia River Maritime Museum
2025-03-11 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR, 97203, United States
Kara is reading at the spectacular Columbia River Maritime Museum in beautiful Astoria, Oregon.

AWP Reading
2025-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
SWWIM-Cultivating Voices Reading during AWP featuring 30 women poets, in Downtown Los Angeles

Village Books
2025-03-02 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham, WA, 98222, United States

Washington History Society
2025-03-01 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Washington Historical Society, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, 98402, United States
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 and waters of the Northwest.

Washington State History Museum Featuring Kara Briggs
2025-02-28 14:00 - 2025-11-15 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Washington State History Museum
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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 Nation, she has worked with tribes from Arizona to Alaska, advocating for Indigenous communities and their connection to land and water.
With an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a background in public and tribal administration, her debut poetry collection, “Rivers in My Veins,” is a personal and historical exploration of her tribal family’s deep ties to the Cascade Mountains and Columbia

Broadway Books
2025-02-20 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, Oregon, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, 97323, United States
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 book ship in Northeast Portland.

Skagit River Poetry Foundation
2025-02-16 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skagit River Interpretive Center, 52804 Rockport Park RD, Rockport, 98283, United States
I am reading at the Skagit River Interpretive Center on the powerful beauty of the Skagit River during the season of eagles, in the homelands of Sauk-Suiattle.

Yakima Coffee House Open Reading
2025-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Larsen Fine Art Gallery, 606 W Nob Hill Blvd, YAkima, WA, United States
Kara is featured reader at the Yakima Coffee House Open Reading , opening the reading of more than 37 local poets.

Whitefoot Studio Reading
2025-02-12 15:00 - 2025-11-15 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 the Yakama poems in Rivers in My Veins

Everett Poetry Night - Featured Reader
2025-01-13 05:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 2804 Grand Ave, Everett, WA 98201, 2804 Grand Ave, Everett, 98201, United States
Everett Poetry Night
Every Monday 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
The Sisters Restaurant
2804 Grand Ave, Everett, WA 98201

5:00–5:30 p.m. sign up

5:45–7:15 p.m. open mic

7:15–7:45 p.m. featured poet

7:45 – 8:00 p.m. purchase books/chat with featured poet

Edmonds Library Author Kara Briggs
2024-11-23 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 650 Main St Edmonds WA 98020-3056, 650 Main St, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States

Marysville Library Kara Briggs Rivers in My Veins
2024-11-21 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6120 Grove St Marysville WA 98270-4127, 6120 Grove St, Marysville, WA, 98270, United States

Cultivating Voices: New Book Showcase
2024-11-10 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
New Books Showcase on Sunday, November 10th, 12-1:30 pm Pacific, 3:00-4:30pm Eastern.
View on Facebook Live – link below to Cultivating Voices Facebook Page

Kara Briggs, Washington, debut collection Rivers in My Veins
Phil Lynch, Dublin, 2 collections with Salmon Poetry, latest is Moving On, confirmed
Janet MacFadyen, Massachusetts, founding editor of Slate Roof Press, latest collection is State of Grass, confirmed

Ecotrust's Indigenous Agroforestry Gathering Closing Event
2024-11-08 06:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Kara is featured reader at the closing event for the Indigenous Agroforestry Gathering in Trinidad, CA, a closed event.

Hale Hālāwai
2024-11-07 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hale Hālāwai, 1633 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI, United States
EWC Communiversity Course
Reading, Writing & A Workshop
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Hale Hālāwai 4:30-6:00pm
1633 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI

Darrington Library Reading: Rivers in My Veins Author Kara Briggs
2024-11-02 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1005 Cascade St Darrington WA 98241, 1005 Cascade St, Darrington, WA, 98241, United States

Orca Books Cooperative Reading
2024-10-26 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 315 5th Ave SE Olympia, WA 98501, 315 5th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, 98501, United States

Northwest History Conference
2024-10-19 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Panel discussion at this conference in Portland about the Confluence Project’s publication, which the poem”Desloot’s Wapaas” is featured.

City of Seattle's Indigenous Peoples' Day
2024-10-14 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pier 62 Seattle, Pier 62, Seattle, WA, United States

Poet's House
2024-09-28 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Stanley Kunitz Conf Room – Poet’s House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, 10282, United States
A reading with Poetry Northwest and the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry

Darrington Library
2024-09-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024
1005 Cascade St Darrington, WA 98241
