PORT ANGELES — The North Coast Writers return to Renaissance this week for a free reading with two prize-winning poets.
Sally Albiso of Freshwater Bay will read her sonnet, “Constellation,” plus poems from a new manuscript, Mass Transit.
Karen Whalley of Port Angeles will read from her works, which include her book, The Rented Violin.
Readings will start at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, while listeners are invited to come at 7 p.m. for drinks, snacks and socializing at Renaissance, 401 E. Front St.
Albiso is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of the Jeanne Lohmann
Poetry Prize and the Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award for her book Newsworthy. Her “Constellation” won 2011’s Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and she plans to travel to Salem, Mass., to receive it in April.
Whalley, who holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C., was the 2001 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award, whose prize money helped her take six months off from her day job to complete a poetry manuscript.
She’s now at work on a second book, which will include poems published in journals such as Drunken Boat.
Whalley was an adjunct English instructor at Peninsula College.
Whalley now works for Clallam County Environmental Health department.
“[The] North Coast Writers are pleased to present poets of such exceptional caliber,” said the group’s spokeswoman, Mary-Alice Boulter. “I think we can guarantee an excellent evening.”
For details on Tuesday’s event, phone 360-457-6410.