PORT ANGELES — Poet Sally Albiso will read from her chapbook The Notion of Wings tonight in the latest installment of the Studium Generale series hosted by Peninsula College.
The chapbook was published by Finishing Line Press in 2015.
Albiso also will give a preview of poems from a forthcoming book she expects to release later this year.
The reading will begin at 12:35 p.m. in the Little Theater at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Co-sponsored by the Foothills Writers Series, the event is free and open to the public.
Education background
Albiso earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree in English with a creative writing emphasis from San Diego State University.
While at San Diego State, Albiso studied with 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.
In 2003, Albiso and her husband moved from California to the North Olympic Peninsula, where the Port Angeles-area resident returned to writing poetry.
She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and received the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and the Camber Press Chapbook Award for her chapbook Newsworthy.
Her poems have appeared in Blood Orange Review, Crab Creek Review, Floating Bridge Review, Poetica, Pontoon: An anthology of Washington State Poets, Rattle, The Comstock Review and other publications.
For more information, contact Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu.
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