“Blue, A Waltz” by Linda Cooper joined by fellow poets

Saturday, March 2, 2024 – 7:00pm

Join us to celebrate Linda Cooper’s new poetry collection, Blue, a Waltz! Fellow poets Laura Read, Maya Jewell Zeller, Kathryn Smith, and Leona Ziegler will also be reading selections from their works.

Saturday, March 2nd at 7pm at the Auntie’s Bookstore (402 W Main Ave).

This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP below!
https://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/blue-waltz-linda-cooper-joined-fellow-poets

About Blue, A Waltz

“This book, the story & tenderness behind it, will be a gift to many people: those who love music, those who lost a loved one, those who love poetry.” –Michael Schmeltzer

About Linda Cooper

Linda Cooper lives in Ronald, Washington and teaches creative writing at Washington Outdoor School. She completed her MFA at Eastern Washington University and her poems have been published in Verse Daily, Hayden’s Ferry Review, West Branch, Many Mountains Moving, Willow Springs, Third Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Permafrost, Hubbub, Elixir, Diner, Pontoon, and many more. She also won the 2015 Orlando Prize for Poetry and the 2022 Allied Arts Foundation Prize. Her chapbook, Blue, a Waltz, was published by Floating Bridge Press in 2023.

Laura Read is author of Dresses from the Old Country, Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral, and the chapbook, The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You. She served as poet laureate for Spokane, Washington, from 2015 to 2017 and teaches at Spokane Falls Community College and the Eastern Washington University MFA program in creative writing.

Maya Jewell Zeller (she/her) was born in the walk-up apartment above her parents’ gas station on the Oregon Coast. She is the author of Rust Fish; Yesterday, the Bees; and the interdisciplinary collaboration, Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts; recent prose appears/is forthcoming in Gettysburg Review, Guesthouse Literary, and The Rumpus. Maya serves as Poetry Editor for Scablands Books, Associate Professor at Central Washington University, and Affiliate Faculty in Western Colorado’s low-residency MFA.

Kathryn Smith is the author of Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, as well as the collection Book of Exodus and the chapbook Chosen Companions of the Goblin, winner of the 2018 Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Bellingham Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Redivider, and elsewhere, and she has received an Allied Arts Foundation award, a Spokane Arts Grant Award, and a Pushcart Special Mention. She received her MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University and lives in Spokane, Washington, where she also makes collage and mixed media art.

Leona Ziegler is a poet, adventurer and crafter of tiny cute things. Her work is featured in Spokane Arts “In the Neighborhood” Project and she’s been a guest on KYRS “Open Poetry” show and City Council. She is a fourth grader. Flow is her first book of poetry.