PORT ANGELES — c’ic’áyx̣ʷmu Rachel Sullivan-Owens will be the featured poet at the fifth Indigenous Peoples’ Day Poetry Reading at 5:30 p.m. Monday.
The annual celebration will be in the ʔaʔkʷustəŋáw̕txʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse on the college’s Port Angeles campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The open mic event also will stream at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/88336259926.
The mic will only be open to native poets who attend in person. A signup sheet will be at the entrance to the longhouse.
Sullivan-Owens is a local Indigenous poet and author from the nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm̕ people and an enrolled member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.
Sullivan-Owens’ work focuses on such themes as the 2 Spirit-LGBTQI+ experience, the reclamation of Klallam Language and the nuances of life as a mother, wife, artist and teacher.
The program is sponsored by the North Olympic Library System, Peninsula College and the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.
For more information, visit www.nols.org/ipd or contact the library for Zoom information.
