Join Peninsula College in celebrating new works from authors Debra Magpie Earling and Alice Derry, at a reading Wednesday, June 7, in Port Townsend, and on Thursday, June 8, at Peninsula College’s Studium Generale presentation.
June 7, Pope Marine Building, Port Townsend, 7:00 pm
Debra Magpie Earling is the author of the novels The Lost Journals of Sacajewa and Perma Red (Milkweed Editions).She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Book Award. She retired from the University of Montana where she taught for 29 years in both Creative Writing and the Native American Studies Department. She was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is currently working on a novel series about witches. She is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. She is Bitterroot Salish.
Alice Derry is the author of six volumes of poetry and a translation of poems by Rainer Rilke. Her most recent book is Asking, a meditation on grief, from MoonPath Press. Derry taught for 30 years at Peninsula College where she curated the Foothills Poetry Series. She is active in working with local tribal members who are writing poetry and has taught a number of community-based poetry workshops, including at the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. She is the author of a two-volume series of essays on native plants of the Pacific Northwest, in collaboration with scientist and artist Fred Sharpe. Raymond Carver chose her first poetry manuscript, Stages of Twilight, for the King County (Seattle) Arts Prize. Strangers to their Courage was a finalist for the Washington Book Award. She lives and works on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
The free event will be held at the Pope Marine Building, 250 Madison Street, Suite 1, Port Townsend, WA at 7:00 pm, and is open to the public. It was made possible through partnership with Imprint Bookstore, Peninsula College Port Townsend, ʔaʔkʷustəŋáw̕txʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse, Studium Generale, and The Foothills Writers Series.
June 8 Solo Reading, Little Theater, Peninsula College, 12:35 pm
On Thursday, June 8, join Debra Magpie Earling for her Studium Generale presentation at 12:35 pm in the Little Theater. The presentation will also be available via Zoom at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/83024542567, Meeting ID: 830 2454 2567.
Contact Dr. Kate Reavey for more information at kreavey@hotmail.com.
