Join us for a free generative writing shop led by Allisa Cherry focusing on unusual text sources and more; followed by a reading by Cherry and Duvall Poet - Mary Eliza Crane and an open mic.

Writing workshop at 4:24 p.m. to 6pm.
Reading and Open Mic begins at 6:14 pm.

BookTree is located at 609 Market St. Kirkland, Wa 98034 ^ 6 blocks North of the Marina (toward Juanita) on the West side of the street. Plenty of FREE street parking.

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Allisa Cherry’s poetry has appeared in over forty journals including TriQuarterly, The Penn Review, The Journal, the Baltimore Review, High Desert Journal, EcoTheo, and Rust + Moth. She has received several Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for both Sewanee Review’s annual poetry contest and Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Her latest collection from Michigan University Press is An Exodus of Sparks which explores how how violence reshapes family, geography, and faith. Predominantly set in the high desert, these poems explore the micro-losses of a father and brother (to downwinder-related cancer and substance abuse) against the macro-losses of a geography to nuclear testing and a tradition of faith to the ravages of grief. Liberally appropriating Judaic symbolism and wedding it to an inherited Mormon vocabulary and iconography, the poet/speaker wrests her power from her culture’s sacred texts to revise her position in sight of patriarchal systems. This collection is for anyone exploring how loss reshapes identity.

Mary Eliza Crane is a long time Duvall resident and one of the co-curators of Duvall poetry. She has been a regular at Duvall Poetry since its inception in 2004, and it continues to inspire and sustain her. Mary is celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry, Last Call of the Dark, just published by Cirque Press. She has two previous collections What I Can Hold in My Hands and At First Light, both published by Gazoobi Tales, and has been published in several journals and anthologies.