Dec 8 Virtual Speaker Series with Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry
We are excited to announce our next Virtual Speaker event will be on Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00pm EST. We welcome Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry. Please click here to register. A Zoom link will be emailed on the day of the event.
Tess Gallagher’s eleventh volume of poetry , Is, Is Not , was published May 2019 by Graywolf Press. Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, also from Graywolf, is the most comprehensive offering of her poems to date. Other poetry includes Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing Bridge, and Amplitude. Gallagher’s The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories was published fall 2009 and these stories are the basis for film episodes under development. Barnacle Soup — Stories from the West of Ireland , collaboration with the Sligo storyteller Josie Gray, is available in the US from Carnegie Mellon. Gallagher spearheaded the publication of Raymond Carver’s Beginners as a stand alone volume in 2015.
During her friendship with the Oscar winning director Alejandro Inarritu she encouraged his work with Raymond Carver’s poem and story in the Oscar winning film Birdman , directed by Inarritu. She has spent regular time in a cottage on Lough Arrow in Co. Sligo in the West of Ireland where many of her new poems are set, and also lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington .
Tess’s books can be purchased at Port Book and News. All copies signed by poets and mailed to your home: http://www.porbooknews.com/
Alice Derry is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently Hunger (MoonPath 2018) along with three chapbooks, including translations of poems by Rainer Rilke. She taught for 30 years at Peninsula College where she curated the Foothills Poetry Series, holding some 12-15 readings per year. Since retirement, she has been active in helping local tribal members access poetry and has taught a number of community workshops in poetry. She has also written a number of essays about native plants of the Peninsula. Raymond Carver chose her first poetry manuscript, Stages of Twilight , for the King County (Seattle) Arts Prize. She was the keynote speaker for his 75 th birthday celebration in 2013. Strangers to their Courage was a finalist for the Washington Book Award. Derry has a new manuscript, Asking . She lives and works on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where she walks often with her friend, Tess Gallagher. Alice’s books can be purchased at Port Book and News. All copies signed by poets and mailed to your home: http://www.porbooknews.com/
