Poetry Reading: Linda Knowlton Appel and Peg Edera

Moon-Marked brings together poems by cousins Linda Appel and Peg Edera. They write: "Separated by 14 years of age and now in our waning, we find how woven our lives are; how family echoes between us; how the act of putting pen to paper and inviting in the words connects us. As we write we have discovered more and deeper connections both in the events of our lives and in our thoughts and reactions to them." The poems here are both independent works and often in dialogue with each other. They touch on family, nature, art, spirituality, and connections across generations. Moon-Marked offers wise reflections and an invitation to readers to reflect deeply on their own connections to family and the wider world. Linda Knowlton Appel is an adopted Oregonian, although she has lived all around the United States. After studying in New York City and Ashland, Wisconsin, she received a master's degree in library science from the University of California at Berkeley. She worked for many years in scientific and industrial libraries before retiring to concentrate on writing poetry. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Willawaw Journal, VoiceCatcher, and Chrysalis: Emerging Women Writers. She has also published two chapbooks, Latitudes of the Heart and Exclaiming to the Sky. Mother of two and a grandmother, she has lived beside the Willamette River for more than forty years. Peg Edera, a native of Portland, Maine, has lived in a grove of trees in Portland, Oregon for 40 years. She is the author of a poetry book, Love is Deeper Than Distance, and a chapbook, How We Name Thee: Poems of the Motherland. Her poems have also been included in various anthologies including The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. She writes in community most mornings of the week with gratitude for all the influence and inspiration received from writing companions and her daughter, Mia.

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