Poets from Port Angeles and Port Townsend will be among those reading selections from a new regional anthology of poetry in Tacoma on Saturday.
Six poets who are represented in New Poets of the American West will read from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave.
Among them will be Alice Derry and Carmen Germain, both of Port Angeles, and Erin Fristad of Port Townsend, the bookstore said on its website, www.kingsbookstore.com/newpoets.html.
Derry recently retired from Peninsula College after 37 years teaching writing and literature, the bookstore said.
For more than a quarter century, she has co-directed the Foothills Writers Series, hosting about 15 readings a year.
Germain teaches writing and literature at Peninsula College and also is co-director of the Foothills Writers Series.
Fristad, who also does commercial fishing, teaches creative writing and works as an administrator at Goddard College in Port Townsend.
During the summer, she often does purse-seining for salmon out of Ketchikan, Alaska.
Also scheduled are poets Allen Braden of Lakewood, who teaches at Tacoma Community College; Derek Sheffield of Leavenworth, who teaches at Wenatchee Valley College; and Ann Spiers of Vashon Island, who also writes fiction, nonfiction and plays.
New Poets of the American West features poets from 11 Western states.
For more information, visit the bookstore’s website or phone 253-272-8801.
