A poetry reading and signing for H.G. Dier dorff's newly published poetry collection\, Rain\, Wind\, Thunder\, Fi re\, Daughter. \;Dierdorff will be joined by celebrated local poe ts Shann Ray and Maya Jewell Zeller. \;
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H. G. Dierdorff is a poet f rom the scablands and pine savannas of eastern Washington\, the ancestral\ , unceded land of the interior Salish people. She is the author of Rai n\, Wind\, Thunder\, Fire\, Daughter\, which was selected for the 202 2 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry and is forthcoming from the Univer sity of Nevada Press in 2024. You can find them in Portland\, Oregon\, whe re they live with their occasionally feral black cat and pretend to work o n crafts.
\nShann Ray&rsquo\;s d eeply engaging work examines humanity&rsquo\;s relationship with violence\ , love\, and forgiveness. Born and raised in Montana\, Ray is the winner o f an American Book Award\, among numerous other accolades\, a National End owment for the Arts Fellow\, and the author of a libretto and 15 books\, i ncluding \;Atomic Theory 7\, \;American Masculine\, and \;The Souls of Others. His esteemed work has been wid ely featured in respected periodicals and publications worldwide.
\nMaya Jewell Zeller is the awar d-winning author of the poetry collections \;out takes/glove box&n bsp\;(New American\, 2023)\, \;Alchemy for Cells &\; Other Beasts \;(a collaboration with visual artist Carrie DeBacker\; O ctober 2017\, Entre Rios Books)\, \;Rust Fish (April 2011\,&n bsp\;Lost Horse Press) \;and \;Yesterday\, the Bees \;(October 2015\, Floating Bridge Press). Zeller is Affiliate Faculty in Po etry and Nature Writing for Western Colorado University and Associate Prof essor of English in the Professional and Creative Writing Program (BA and MA) for \;Central Washington University.
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