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SUMMARY:Poetry Night: Ellen Waterston and Jeff Fearnside
LOCATION:PRAx\, 470 SW 15th Street\, Corvallis\, OR
DESCRIPTION:Cozy up for a night of poetry as acclaimed writers Ellen Water
 ston and Jeff Fearnside share their latest collections. Completed while tr
 avelling the state during her first year as Oregon’s Poet Laureate\, the
  poems in Waterston’s As Far as I Can Anthem enlist the people and place
 s across Oregon to inform\, challenge and inspire readers in vital and une
 xpected ways. Fearnside’s most recent book\, Lake: Love Poems \, is focu
 sed on the concept of place\, specifically Central Asia\, where he lived f
 or four years\, and Oregon\, his home for the past 13 years. The poems are
  connected by the thread of his courtship with and marriage to the woman w
 ho has experienced these places with him\, his life partner Valentina.​ 
 Ellen Waterston is an award-winning author and columnist who has dedicated
  herself to writing and advocating for the literary arts in the high deser
 t region of Oregon\, all the while continuing to write poetry and nonficti
 on works that have evolved into essential reading about Oregon and the Wes
 t. She has published five poetry and four literary nonfiction titles\, inc
 luding We Could Die Doing This and Walking the High Desert . In 2024\, Wat
 erston was named to a two-year term as the 11th Poet Laureate of Oregon an
 d received both the Soapstone Bread and Roses Award and the Stewart H. Hol
 brook Award. Waterston is the founder of the Writing Ranch and the annual 
 Waterston Desert Writing Prize.​ Jeff Fearnside is the author of three f
 ull-length books and two chapbooks of poetry and prose\, including the ess
 ay collection Ships in the Desert \, which won a Foreword INDIES Book of t
 he Year Award and the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award in Pro
 se from the Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop. His story collection A Husband 
 and Wife Are One Satan won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Free tickets are ava
 ilable here .\n\nhttps://oregonhumanities.org/events/poetry-night-ellen-wa
 terston-and-jeff-fearnside/
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