PORT ANGELES — Katie Ford, the nationally known poet and author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and other magazines, will celebrate her most recent book, Blood Lyrics, with a free reading at Peninsula College this Thursday afternoon.
The public is invited to the 12:35 p.m. event in the Little Theater on the main campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
“Blood Lyrics is truly wonderful,” said Port Angeles poet Tess Gallagher, with whom Ford studied at Whitman College in Walla Walla.
The poetry collection was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Rilke Prize.
Ford is coming to Port Angeles to partake in the college’s Studium Generale and Foothills Writers Series, which bring a variety of people to the North Olympic Peninsula for free public programming.
The poet is also author of Colosseum, a collection named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Soon after finishing her bachelor’s in English at Whitman, Ford earned her master of divinity degree from Harvard; she went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
She lives in Los Angeles and teaches creative writing at the University of California at Riverside.
For more about Ford’s Studium Generale talk, contact Peninsula College professor Kate Reavey at 360-417-6489 or kreavey@pencol.edu.