PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will present a free evening poetry reading by Sally Albiso at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Relationships, nature, art, love, loss and beauty — all come to the forefront in the poems of Sally Albiso’s “Moonless Grief,” which she will read from at PAFAC, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Albiso is the author of three chapbooks: “Newsworthy” (Camber Press, 2009), “The Notion of Wings” (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and “The Fire Eater and the Bearded Lady” (Finishing Line Press, 2016).
In 2003, Albiso moved from California to the North Olympic Peninsula, where she returned to writing poetry.
Her poems have appeared in Blood Orange Review, Common Ground Review, Crab Creek Review, Floating Bridge Review, Pontoon: an anthology of Washington State poets, Rattle and The Comstock Review, among others.
Albiso earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from UCLA and an Master of Arts degree in English with a creative writing emphasis from San Diego State University.
While at SDSU, she studied with the poets Glover Davis and Carolyn Forché and completed a thesis of her own poetry.
After receiving her master’s degree, she taught English composition, creative writing and English as a second language at Chapman College, San Diego State University Extension and Southwestern College.
Albiso’s honors include the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize, The Comstock Review’s Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, the Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award and nominations for the Pushcart Prize.
For more information, contact Jessica Elliott 360-457-3532 or go to www.PAFAC.org.
