NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, July 17.
PORT TOWNSEND — Two final free public readings by nationally known authors will be tonight and Saturday night.
The readings began Sunday by 11 authors who are faculty members at Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, which ends this Sunday.
Melissa Febos and Erin Belieu will read from their work at 7 tonight at the Joseph F. Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park.
Febos is the author of a memoir, Whip Smart, about four years working as a dominatrix.
Her writing has been published in Glamour, Kenyon Review, Post Road, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, Hunger Mountain, Salon, Dissent, The Brooklyn Rail and The New York Times.
Belieu, who is also the artistic director of the conference, is the author of Slant Six, Infanta and Black Box.
On Saturday at 7 p.m., Centrum will present “An Evening with Joseph Stroud,” also at the Wheeler Theater.
Stroud is the author of five books of poetry: In the Sleep of Rivers, Signatures, Below Cold Mountain, Country of Light and Of This World, New & Selected Poems.
Earlier readings featured Luis Alberto Urrea, Gary Copeland Lilley, Skip Horack, Pam Houston, Claire Davis, Jimmy Kimbrell, Wendy Call and Kim Addonizio, as well as the work of participants in the conference.
For more information, visit www.centrum.org or call 360-385-3102.
