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.
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.
Find me at the Saint Julian Booth in the bookfair
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.
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!!
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 Valley.
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, and a few new poems.