At 1:00 pm on Saturday, August 10, North Bend Public Library will host a reading by poets Annis Cassells and Tom Mitchell. Annis Cassells splits her time between Bakersfield, California and Coos Bay. Her poems have been published in online and print journals and magazines. You Can’t Have It All is her first published collection of poems. Tom Mitchell was raised in New York and California, but has lived in Oregon since 1980. He received his Masters from California State University, Sacramento, where he studied with the poet, Dennis Schmitz. He received an MFA from the University of Montana, where he worked with Richard Hugo and Madeline De Frees. His first collection of poems, The Way Summer Ends, was published in 2016. His new book of poetry, Caribou, was released in April, 2018. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New England Review and New Letters, and most recently in Valparaiso Poetry Review and Miramar Magazine.
