PORT TOWNSEND — The Northwind Reading Series will feature Christine Hemp and Celia Rose Langford at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Suggested donation for the readings at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St. is $5. All proceeds will support Northwind Arts Center.
Hemp has aired her poetry and commentary on NPR’s Morning Edition, and her chapbook “That Fall” was chosen for the New Women’s Voices Series at Finishing Line Press, organizers said.
Her work has appeared in such publications as Tupelo Quarterly, Harvard Magazine and Iowa Review.
Her awards include a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature and Paula Jones Gardner Memorial Award for Poetry at Floating Bridge Press. She was the 2015 Anthony Hecht Scholar in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Langford’s poetry springs from both real-world and uber-imaginative landscapes, organizers said.
Now a senior at Whitman College, last year she studied abroad in Kyoto, Japan, and she is fluent in Japanese.
She also has studied with masters of the street dance “popping” in both Japan and the U.S., at such places as “Studio A-sh Kyoto” and “Massive Monkees Studio: The Beacon” in Seattle.
Langford’s poems have appeared in “Blue Moon” and “The Allegheny Review.”
For more information, contact Bill Mawhinney 360-302-1159.
