Friday, October 6, 5:30-7 PM: Poetry Reading with Poets/Singer-Songwriters Beth Wood & Nathan Brown FREE

Folks, we are thrilled to have these two drop by for a late afternoon of Poetry, and maybe even a song or two. Beth, an Oregon Books Award Poetry Winner, has filled the Bookstore many times with her music performances. She will read from her third book of poetry, Believe The Bird, released in in 2021. We are particularly fortunate to have Nathan, award-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, in the area to join Beth. Their books and cds will be for available for purchase.                                                                                                

Light Refreshments.

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Bios:

Beth Wood is an award-winning singer-songwriter, poet, and believer in the power of word and song. Beth has released fifteen albums, three books of poetry, and a collection of funny stories from the road. Beth’s poetry book Ladder To The Light (Mezcalita Press) is the winner of the 2019 Oregon Book Awards People’s Choice Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her latest collection of poetry, Believe The Bird (Mezcalita Press), is a collection of forthright, shimmering poems inspired by the John James Audubon quote, “When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.”      

     Beth’s dream is to build community through music and poetry, and to move something with her art, whether it’s a swirling emotion or a curious mind or tapping feet. Beth loves helping others access their creativity through songwriting and poetry. She lives in Sisters, Oregon with her rescue dog Hannah Laroo. https://www.bethwoodmusic.com

Nathan Brown is an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma where he’s taught for over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013/14, and now travels fulltime performing readings, concerts, workshops and speaking on creativity, poetry, and songwriting.

Nathan has published 25 books. Most recent is his new collection of poems, In the Days of Our Endurance, the fifth in a series now known as the Pandemic Poems Project, a collection of commissioned poems that deal with the days of the pandemic, and a new travel memoir Just Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. His earlier book, Two Tables Over, won the Oklahoma Book Award. His most recent album of all original music is The Streets of San Miguel, recorded at Blue Rock Studios in Wimberley Texas (featuring Joel Guzman and Warren Hood).

He’s taught songwriting, memoir, poetry, and performance workshops from Tuscany and Ireland to the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon, the Taos Poetry Festival, the Woody Guthrie Festival, Laity Lodge, the Everwood Farmstead Foundation in Wisconsin, as well as for Blue Rock Artist Ranch near Austin, Texas. Nathan’s online live video series The Fire Pit Sessions—inspired by the Pandemic Poems Project—has had over 80,000 views. www.brownlines.com