NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Nov. 6.
PORT TOWNSEND — Bob Francis will host an evening with Port Townsend poets at 7 tonight at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Francis will showcase new work and other poems by several poets, including Gary Lilley, Bill Mawhinney, Gayle Kaune and Geoff Bowman, at the event called Home Cookin’ at 2333 San Juan Ave.
The poets will be around for conversation afterward.
Lilley was born in Sandy Cross, N.C.; is a veteran submariner.
He has published four books (most recently with Copper Canyon Press); and said he has not forgotten his origins.
Mawhinney has published a couple of books.
He says he is best known as curator and host of the bimonthly poetry reading series about to enter its second decade at Northwind Arts.
Kaune is a retired psychotherapist and has recently released a new book.
One of Kaune’s chapbooks won the Flume Press Award.
Several single poems have received nomination for Pushcart Prizes.
Bowman describes himself as the oldest young poet in town, having begun writing again after a 35-year silence.
“He has a single collection and is grateful every day that the poems keep coming,” according to a news release.
Registration is required at www.tinyurl.com/alps2015fall.
For information, email Bowman at barakapt@aol.com or call 360-385-9924.
