Words, Writers & West Seattle: Poet Susan Rich

When:
October 3, 2014 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2014-10-03T17:00:00-07:00
2014-10-03T19:00:00-07:00
Where:
Barnes and Noble, Westwood Village
2600 Southwest Barton Street
Westwood Village Shopping Center, Seattle, WA 98126
USA

The public is invited to this FREE series from 5–7 pm at Barnes & Noble/Westwood Village.
Poet and writer Susan Rich is featured on October 3rd, 2014:

Words, Writers & West Seattle Presents Poet/Writer Susan Rich recently published “Cloud Pharmacy” and was featured at Sept. 5th First Friday event sponsored by Southwest Seattle Historical Society.

Susan Rich’s “Cloud Pharmacy” is an “intelligent and observant collection” of poems, some inspired by the nineteenth-century photographer Hannah Maynard. She explores the passions of romantic love and fire, memory, needs, self-regard and grief in this work. As Rich herself says,”the interior world opens/lightly….but it doesn’t stay there.” The result is wonderfully strange and unsettling.

The public is invited to this FREE series from 5–7 pm at Barnes & Noble/Westwood Village.

Described as a “deep, mindful thinker and a lover of language,” Rich is the author of several essays and of four collections of poetry: Cloud Pharmacy, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, named a finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue, winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry. She will discuss her process of writing based on historical figures.

Rich’s poems have appeared in many national and international journals including the Harvard Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and TriQuarterly. Along with Jared Hawkley and Brian Turner, Susan is the co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Crossing borders, a selection of themed travel essays for poets who want to travel, it was published by McSweeney’s and the Poetry Foundation in 2013.

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