Join Kara Briggs, 2024 James Welch Prize winning poet, for an in-person reading and celebration of her lyrical and documentary poetry book Rivers In My Veins.
“Rivers in My Veins is an expression of my experience as a mixed-race tribal citizen in the West,” Briggs said. “It opens a window on a tribal perspective on the modern world, and history that brought us to this present time. It speaks to readers who are inundated with the noise of today’s media world and invites them to talk a walk in the lands by the waters that are ever present and available to all."
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
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
Kara is featured reader at the Yakima Coffee House Open Reading , opening the reading of more than 37 local poets.
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.
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.
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 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 […]
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.
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.