Poetry at NBPL, April 16

At 5 pm on Saturday, April 17At 5 pm on Saturday, April 17, North Bend Public Library will present a poetry concert featuring Albert Garcia, Patricia Clark, and local poet Thomas Mitchell. The link for the concert is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87474565468, which will also be available on the library website and Facebook page. Albert Garcia is the author of three books of poems, Rainshadow (Copper Beech Press), Skunk Talk (Bear Star Press), and A Meal Like That (Brick Road Poetry Press), as well as the textbook, Digging In: Literature for Developing Writers (Prentice Hall). His poems have appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, Willow Springs, and Poetry East. He lives in rural Northern California and works at Sacramento City College where he is Vice President of Instruction. Patricia Clark is the author of Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, her sixth book of poems, and three chapbooks, including Deadlifts, from New Michigan Press in 2018. She recently retired from thirty years of teaching in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan where she was also the university’s poet in residence. Her recent work has been published in various poetry journals such as Plume, Blackbird, Barrow Street and Lake Effect. She also has two anthologies: Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag) and Rewilding: Poems for the Environment (Flexible Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2020). Tom Mitchell will be reading from his latest collection, Where We Arrive, just released by Lost Horse Press. Copies can be purchased at www.losthorsepress.org. His first collection of poems, The Way Summer Ends, was published in 2016 and his second collection, Caribou, was released in April 2018. Mitchell was the Featured American Poet in the Summer 2020 edition of The High Window, and he was the featured poet in the Salem Poetry Project’s February concert.