WEEKEND: Poet to speak at Port Townsend bookstore Saturday

Published 12:01 am Saturday, October 25, 2014

PORT TOWNSEND — Poet, Northwest Writing Institute founder and teacher Kim Stafford will give a reading at the Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Books this Saturday night.

Admission is free to the 7 p.m. event.

The author of many books over the past four decades, Stafford will read from his latest two: Wind on the Waves, a collection of poems about the Oregon Coast, and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do (How My Brother Disappeared).

The latter is a memoir exploring the trauma and learning Stafford went through after his older brother, Bret, took his own life.

Stafford will have his guitar and a few songs along too, said Anna Quinn, owner of the Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Books.

Stafford has been a professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland for 25 years.

He’s also the literary executor of his father William Stafford’s estate.

He was a contributor to the Multnomah County project When You Were 15, in which local people shared stories about how one adult, through a small act of encouragement, made a difference to them when they were 15.

For more details about Stafford’s reading here Saturday, visit the shop at 820 Water St. or phone Quinn at 360-379-2617.