Richard Widerkehr & Barbara Bloom- Missing the Owl

This afternoon will include poetry readings, craft discussions, cookies, and guitar music!

Richard Widerkehr's fifth poetry collection, Missing The Owl, is a spiritual journey reckoning with uncertainty, pain, loss, and death. But Widerkehr lands squarely upon the truth and beauty of accepting nature and its relative disquietude.

"Take your time with these engaging poems, you'll want to savor them mouthful by delicious mouthful." - Jenifer Browne Lawrence

Richard Widerkehr is an award-winning poet and novelist who has worked as a teacher in the Upward Bound Program at Western Washington University and as a counselor on the mental heath unit of a hospital. His poems and stories have appeared in over one hundred magazines, including Rattle, Midwest Review, and Atlanta Review; one of his poems was broadcast by Garrison Keillor on Writer's Almanac.

Barbara Bloom grew up in California and on a remote coastal homestead in British Columbia, Canada. Returning to California, she taught English at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz. Her poems have appeared in Catamaran Review, Shark Reef Review, and Raven Chronicles. She has published two books of poetry, On the Water Meridian (Hummingbird Press, 2007) and Pulling Down the Heavens (Hummingbird Press, 2017 and a third book is due out this year (Missing Orion, Shanti Arts). She now lives in Bellingham, Washington.

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