Poetry Reading: Ingrid Wendt and Ralph Salisbury

Start: 03/10/2012 2:00 pm

Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m.

Grass Roots Books & Music

227 SW 2^nd Street, Corvallis

Ingrid Wendt and Ralph Salisbury will be visiting Grass Roots from Eugene for an afternoon of poetry.

Ingrid will read from her newest book, Evensong, a collection of finely crafted narratives and lyric meditations offer a host of small epiphanies arising from everyday life: turning points in relationships, insights into our troubled world, and coming to terms with loss. Ingrid Wendt’s books of poems have won the Oregon Book Award (for Singing the Mozart Requiem), the Editions Prize (for Surgeonfish), and the Yellowglen Award (for The Angle of Sharpest Ascending). Her first book, Moving the House, was chosen for BOA Editions by William Stafford, who also wrote the introduction. Her newest book, Evensong, a finalist in the T.S. Eliot Award, has just been published by Truman State University Press. Wendt is the co-editor of From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry, and In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts. Her teaching guide, Starting with Little Things: A Guide to Writing Poetry in the Classroom, is in its sixth printing. She lives with her husband, poet and writer Ralph Salisbury in Eugene, Oregon.

Ralph Salisbury's 3 books of fiction and 10 books of poems evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage and his life as a questing human in a violent world. "In the Children's Museum in Nashville," published in The New Yorker in 1960, is regarded as a precursor to the contemporary Native American literary movement. Professor Emeritus of the University of Oregon, and former editor-in-chief of Northwest Review, his recent books are Blind Pumper at the Well, Salt Press, Cambridge, UK, poems; The Indian Who Bombed Berlin, fiction, and Light from a Bullet Hole: Poems New and Selected, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the 2012 recipient of the Riverteeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize for his memoir, So Far, So Good, to be published in 2013. He and his wife, poet Ingrid Wendt, live in Eugene, Oregon.