PORT TOWNSEND — Poetry on the Salish Sea will continue its second Summer Sunday Readings from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
The free annual poetry series will be at Wilderbee Farm and Meadery, 223 Cook Ave. Extension.
This month’s readers include Luther Hughes, Erin Malone and Ruby Hansen Murray.
Hughes, who lives in Seattle, is the author of “A Shiver in the Leaves,” which was selected as one of the Best Books 2022 by New Yorker magazine.
Malone lives on Bainbridge Island. Her 2023 book, “Site of Disappearance,” was a finalist in the National Poetry Series.
Malone was the editor of Poetry Northwest from 2016 to 2020.
Murray, a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations of Northeastern Oklahoma, lives along the Columbia River.
Murray is a columnist for the Osage News, an Indigenous Native Poets, Hedgebrook and MacDowell fellow.
A student of the Osage language, her poems written in, or including, Osage have been published by Broadsided Press, Yellow Medicine Review and South Florida Poetry Journal.
The readings will be conducted outdoors. Attendees are encouraged to dress accordingly and bring chairs or blankets for seating.
Small batch, handcrafted mead and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
The series will finish Sept. 29 with readings by Rick Barot, Melissa Kwasny and Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
For more information, visit www.poetrysalishsea.com.
Erin Malone.
