Join us in the field at Finnriver from 6:45-8pm on Thursday, August 22 for a summer evening poetry reading hosted by Winter Texts and Finnriver, featuring readings by poets Holly Hughes, Amber Huntsman, Conner Bouchard-Roberts and Nhat Nichols.

Winter texts is a publishing company and bookshop founded and operated by Port Townsend’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Conner Bouchard-Roberts. Winter texts has been designing, editing, and publishing books since 2017—including masterworks by the late Ursula K. Le Guin. The cozy, brick-and-mortar Winter texts bookshop is located in Upuptown (aka in Aldrich’s Mezzanine, 940 Lawrence st.) right new to Strange Days Comics and Games.
www.wintertexts.com

Nhatt Nichols (she/her) is a multidisciplinary poet, journalist, and artist whose work focuses on how humans, animals, and the natural world intersect. Her poetry and graphic poetry have appeared in the Sheepshead Review, Till, The Travel'n Appalachian Review, and Dinner Bell Magazine, among other places. She is a 2023 Artist Trust Literary Gap grant recipient and the author of This Party of the Soft Things (Bored Wolves 2022), a book-length graphic poem on a post-human world. Her next book, Morels, is forthcoming from Bored Wolves in 2025.

Holly J. Hughes is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Fast, coauthor of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and editor of several anthologies, including Keep a Green Bough: Voices from the Heart of Cascadia. Her fine-art chapbook Passings received an American Book Award in 2017. She is copublisher of Empty Bowl Press, directs Flying Squirrel Studio, which offers writing residencies for women, and consults as a writing coach. She divides her time between a log cabin in Indianola and her home in the Chimacum valley.

Amber Huntsman is a poet, Hedgewitch, and drama therapist. She spends most of her time haunting our local coastlines and estuaries, alchemizing pain into medicine, and writing like Mary Oliver on mushrooms.

Free and all ages welcome!