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The cover of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic, which shows a large mushroom growing over a landscape.

Poetry Reading with Lesley Wheeler

hosted by Clallam County Poet Laureate and Gentle House
2025-10-20 18:30:00 2025-10-20 19:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Poetry Reading with Lesley Wheeler Experience a poetry reading from Wheeler's latest collection, Mycocosmic. Port Angeles Main Library - Raymond Carver Room

Monday, October 20
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-10-20 18:30:00 2025-10-20 19:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Poetry Reading with Lesley Wheeler Experience a poetry reading from Wheeler's latest collection, Mycocosmic. Port Angeles Main Library - Raymond Carver Room

Port Angeles Main Library

Raymond Carver Room

Experience a poetry reading from Wheeler's latest collection, Mycocosmic.

Just as fungi create new life from death, the poems in Mycocosmic explore how grief can nourish anew. Copies available for purchase onsite from Port Book and News.

This poetry reading is hosted by Clallam County Poet Laureate Nellie Bridge and Kirsten Miles, the director of Gentle House, an artist retreat run by Tupelo Press.

About the presenter:
Lesley Wheeler, poetry editor of Shenandoah, is the author of Mycocosmic (Tupelo Press, 2025), runner-up for the Dorset Prize and her sixth poetry collection. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Poets & Writers, Guernica, Massachusetts Review, and Ecotone, and her work has been supported by grants from Fulbright, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers Conference.

This program is generously supported in part by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library. The Clallam County Poet Laureate position is supported by the North Olympic Library Foundation and Clallam County.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Arts, Music & Culture |

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