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Laurie Blauner, Richard Robbins, and Abigail Prout
We kick off National Poetry Month with a night celebrating three regional poets' recent collections: Laurie Blauner's Come Closer, Richard Robbins's The Oratory of All Souls, and Abigail Prout's Walk Deep.
Laurie Blauner is the author of nine books of poetry, five novels, and a recent book of hybrid nonfiction called I Was One of My Memories. Her fourth novel, The Solace of Monsters, was a Washington State Book Award finalist in Fiction. Come Closer won the Library of Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander Press. She has been a resident at Centrum and was in the Jack Straw Writers Program. She has received grants from the NEA, Seattle Arts Commission, King County Arts Commission, 4Culture, and Artist Trust. She studied poetry with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana. She lives in Seattle.
Richard Robbins was raised in California and Montana, taught in Minnesota for many years, and recently moved back west to Oregon. Robbins has received awards or residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Anderson Center, Willapa Bay AiR, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. From 1986 to 2014, he directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State Mankato, which the Minnesota Humanities Commission called, “the premier small-town reading series in the country.”
Abigail Prout grew up as a wild island hippie child on the bitsy island of Lopez in the Salish Sea. She surprised herself by returning to raise a family here. She is passionate about the role that poetry plays in personal transformation and leadership. Specializing in feminine-forward leadership through online courses and in-person retreats, she has worked with thousands of leaders throughout her 24 year coaching career. She is a leadership coach and a trainer for the Co-Active Training Institute. She is passionate about poetry and creative imagination as a way to cultivate leadership. Walk Deep, her first book, won the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and is currently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It was published by Wayfarer Books/ Homebound Publications in October 2022. Abigail lives with her husband, Clive, and their children Iona and Jax on Lopez Island in the forests and on the beaches where she rambled as a child. Every morning you can find her singing to the island forest with her silky black lab, Bella.
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