{"id":1980,"date":"2021-09-15T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2024-11-14T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T01:06:29","slug":"willow-springs-to-host-live-virtual-reading-featuring-past-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/willow-springs-to-host-live-virtual-reading-featuring-past-contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow Springs to Host Live Virtual Reading Featuring Past Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/WSM-Reading-with-url-2048x1152-1.png\" alt=\"WSM-Reading-with-url-2048x1152\" title=\"WSM-Reading-with-url-2048x1152\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Willow Springs Magazine will host a live virtual reading featuring past contributors Kevin McIlvoy, Melissa Kwasny, and Rebecca Brown on Saturday, May 8th at 6 p.m. PST. The reading will be held over Zoom and YouTube. Attendees can join us via Zoom <a href=\"https:\/\/ewu.zoom.us\/j\/99610184063\">here<\/a>, or via YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6Cma6x8335I\">here<\/a>. There will be a live Q &amp; A session after the reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MELISSA KWASNY is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today&nbsp; (University of Washington Press Pacific Northwest Poetry Series 2017) and Pictograph (Milkweed Editions 2015), as well as a collection of prose writings, Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision (Lynx House Press 2013). Recently published by Trinity University Press, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear is her first book of nonfiction. Kwasny currently serves as Montana Poet Laureate, a position she shares with M.L. Smoker. Her poetry was featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/willowspringsmagazine.org\/poetry-2\/two-poems-melissa-kwasny\/\">Willow Springs 65<\/a> and in <a href=\"http:\/\/willowspringsmagazine.org\/issues\/willow-springs-74\/\">Willow Springs 74<\/a>, and she was<a href=\"http:\/\/willowspringsmagazine.org\/interview\/melissa-kwasny-the-willow-springs-interview\/\"> interviewed in 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>REBECCA BROWN&#8217;s most recent book is Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018). Among her dozen other books are American Romances, The Haunted House, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, The Terrible Girls (all with City Lights), and The Gifts of the Body (HarperCollins). She&#8217;s written a play, a one-woman performance\/talk, and a libretto for a dance opera. She was the first Writer in Residence at Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program and former creative director of the Pacific Northwest Writers&#8217; Conference in Port Townsend. She taught in the low residency MFA program at Goddard College and is currently Senior-Artist-in-Residence at University of Washington, Bothell. She lives in Seattle. Her fiction was featured most recently in <a href=\"http:\/\/willowspringsmagazine.org\/willow-springs-84\/\">Willow Springs 84<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read each author&#8217;s work in Willow Springs Magazine by purchasing each issue at <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.touchnet.net\/C20347_ustores\/web\/store_main.jsp?STOREID=8\">the Willow Springs store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willow Springs Magazine will host a live virtual reading featuring past contributors Kevin McIlvoy, Melissa Kwasny, and Rebecca Brown on Saturday, May 8th at 6 p.m. PST. The reading will be held over Zoom and YouTube. Attendees can join us via Zoom here, or via YouTube here. There will be a live Q &amp; A &#8230; <a title=\"Willow Springs to Host Live Virtual Reading Featuring Past Contributors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/willow-springs-to-host-live-virtual-reading-featuring-past-contributors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Willow Springs to Host Live Virtual Reading Featuring Past Contributors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25234,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36883,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/36883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}