[https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/template_images/gallery/47662b23-df38-45d4-8005-9b2f50193f4b.png] Winter Garden Poetry Series [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/faa925e173bf3528ea757c85d/_compresseds/9c34ba62-8cbb-49c5-94ec-fa698c3bd373.jpg] This Winter we are partnering with Write 253 and hosting a poetry series with great award winning local poets reading their work in the Wagner House here at Lakewold Gardens! Each event has two featured poets with a youth poet opening. At the end the poets will stick around for a Q&A. Books will be for sale during each event. The third event in the series will be this Sunday, February 16th. Kellie Richaedson and Christina Butcher will be the featured poets. The event starts at 3 PM, there is a suggested donation of $10. Complementary wine and beer will be served. February 16 [https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/template_images/gallery/03c9e5d8-4a2f-471e-b646-37327134c2b0.png] [https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/template_images/gallery/47662b23-df38-45d4-8005-9b2f50193f4b.png] ⫸ THE POETS ⫷ [https://mcusercontent.com/faa925e173bf3528ea757c85d/images/62d14ff9-e5b4-4823-9a65-00ad016e0fa6.jpg] Kellie Richardson is a writer, artist and educator born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. Her work explores the intersection of race, class, and gender with specific emphasis on themes of love, loss and longing. Kellie is particularly inspired and called to explore the experiences of women of color, and the intersectionality of identities. As the 2017-2019 Poet Laureate for the city of Tacoma, Kellie worked to ensure literary arts are both accessible to and representative of the diversity of the community. Kellie believes her work has one purpose: to be used as a tool for liberation and healing. Sometimes through provocation or confession, other times through belly laughs or tears, Kellie works to center the beauty and power of everyday folk, and put some funk into the dread we call survival. Her most recent collection, The Art of Naming My Pain (Blue Cactus Press, 2019) combines poetry, prose and mixed media collage to offer readers an honest account of her struggles with identity, relationships, mental health and self-love. [https://mcusercontent.com/faa925e173bf3528ea757c85d/_compresseds/8f14f888-6b1d-4fe2-a873-f184cacc0a77.jpg] Christina Butcher is a Chicana poet, publisher and veteran from New Mexico. She has a passion for storytelling and community involvement. She’s a bookseller at King’s Books and a teaching artist at Write253. She’s also worked as a freelance writer since exiting the military in 2016. Her work has appeared in City Arts, Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, Hilltop Action Journal, OLY ARTS, The Ranger, VOICE Magazine and Weekly Volcano. Follow Christina on Twitter @bluecactuspress and Instagram @ccthemighty and @bluecactuspress. [FACEBOOK]<http://www.facebook.com/lakewoldgardens> FACEBOOK<http://www.facebook.com/lakewoldgardens> [INSTAGRAM]<http://instagram.com/Lakewoldgardens> INSTAGRAM<http://instagram.com/Lakewoldgardens> [VISIT OUR PAGE]<http://lakewoldgardens.org/> VISIT OUR PAGE<http://lakewoldgardens.org/> Copyright © 2020 Lakewold Gardens, All rights reserved. As a friend of the gardens you are receiving this email because we would like to keep you informed on upcoming events and other important news about the garden. Our mailing address is: Lakewold Gardens P.O. Box 39780 Lakewood, WA 98496-3780 Add us to your address book<https://lakewoldgardens.us1.list-manage.com/vcard?u=faa925e173bf3528ea757c85d&id=7e3970556e>