Edison Poetry Series-April 2026
Join us at the ie gallery in Edison for our spring reading. We have three phenomenal poets that will be in town on the day after Earth Day! Read more about their important work below.
April 23rd 7-9 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM, no reserved seating)
ie gallery 5800 Cains Court Edison, WA 98232
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Poet Bios
Derek Sheffield is the 8th poet laureate of Washington State. He received a 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. His other collections include Not for Luck, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, Through the Second Skin, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance and Democracy. A professor of English at Wenatchee Valley College, he can often be found in the woods along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range near Leavenworth, Washington. He edits poetry for Terrain.org.
Elizabeth Bradfield’s most recent book of poems is SOFAR. She is also co-creator of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry and Editor of Broadsided, Liz works as a naturalist and directs the Poetry Concentration at Western Colorado University’s MFA.
Jeremy Voigt is the author of the book Something to Carry Home and Not Kill, (forthcoming) from Elixir Press, and two chapbooks: Neither Rising nor Falling (Finishing Line press) and The Invisible Heart of Everything (Floating Bridge Press). He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was featured on The Writer’s Almanac, and was runner up for the 2019 Discovery Poetry Prize. He is a high school English teacher and adjunct professor. He lives on a small farm in Bellingham, Washington with his wife and children.
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