02/18/2012 7:00 pm
Location:
- Street:
- 1200 11th St
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225-7015
- Country:
- United States
About Richard Widerkehr, Her Story of Fire:
Her Story of Fire tells the troubling details of family life when one member's mental disorder continually tears at the thick fabric of relationships. Breakdowns can be inevitable, but poet Richard Widerkehr describes how families continually undertake the task of rebuilding love gone ragged through steady determination and staunch loyalty--despite the lack of gratitude, or even acceptance. He endeavors to tell the truth.
Her Story of Fire is Richard Widerkehr's latest collection of poetry published by Egress Studio Press. Widerkehr won two Hopwood Awards for poetry at the University of Michigan, where he earned his BA in English. He received his MA from Columbia University, which he attended on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He won first prize for a short story at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference and three awards in The Bridge's annual poetry contests. Widerkehr lives in Washington State, where he has been a teacher in the Upward Bound Program, a case manager at a mental health clinic, and a counselor on the mental health unit of a hospital. His books include The Way Home, a book-length collection of poems, a chapbook titled Mountain, and the chapbook, Disappearances. He is also author of a novel about a geologist, Sedimental
Journey. His poems and stories have appeared in Chariton Review,
Pontoon, Passages North, Northwest Poets and Artists Calendar, Crab
Creek Review, Writers' Forum, and Salt River Review.
About Anita Boyle, What the Alder Told Me
The pleasure and reasoning of the poems in What the Alder Told Me comes partially from the poet's relationship to nature in the Pacific Northwest. Boyle presents poems with "a large aesthetic tent in a slender book...The natural world transports her and her poetry to some graceful, unexpected places" (Open Books Poetry Emporium).
Anita K. Boyle is a poet, illustrator, graphic designer and lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of What the Alder Told Me (MoonPath Press, 2011), and Bamboo Equals Loon (Egress Studio Press, 2001). She was chosen to judge the 2011 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest, which generates international submissions. Her poems have appeared in StringTown, Raven Chronicles, Crab Creek Review, Cranky, Spoon River Poetry Review, Margin and Mirror Northwest, as well as in the anthologies Red Sky Morning and Saints of Hysteria. She wrote sixty poems during a Willard R. Espy Foundation literary residency in October 2003. She lives near an inspiring pond outside Bellingham, Washington along with two cats, an old Appaloosa, and her friend and collaborator, the poet James Bertolino.
Anita K. Boyle is a poet, illustrator, graphic designer and lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of What the Alder Told Me (MoonPath Press, 2011), and Bamboo Equals Loon (Egress Studio Press, 2001). She was chosen to judge the 2011 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest, which generates international submissions. Her poems have appeared in StringTown, Raven Chronicles, Crab Creek Review, Cranky, Spoon River Poetry Review, Margin and Mirror Northwest, as well as in the anthologies Red Sky Morning and Saints of Hysteria. She wrote sixty poems during a Willard R. Espy Foundation literary residency in October 2003. She lives near an inspiring pond outside Bellingham, Washington along with two cats, an old Appaloosa, and her friend and collaborator, the poet James Bertolino.
Village Books is pleased to carry copies of Richard and Anita's books. Please call 360-671-2626 to obtain copies.
2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
