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 second event in the series will be this Sunday, January 26th. William Kupinse and Natalie Scenters-Zapico will be the featured poets. The event starts at 3 PM and there is a suggestion donation of $10. Complementary wine and beer will also be served. January 26 [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/c4981904-160b-4e5f-b931-eabed5247f43.png] William Kupinse is Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, where he teaches modernist literature, ecocriticism, and creative writing. He was Tacoma’s first poet laureate. Responding to Tacoma’s role as a frontline community in the climate crisis, Kupinse’s current poetry and teaching focus on the human impacts of the fossil fuel industry. Recent publications include chapters in the book collections Affective Materialities (University Press of Florida, 2018) and Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (Edinburgh UP, forthcoming in 2020); recent poems can be found in Footbridge Above the Falls: Poems by Forty-Eight Northwest Poets (Rose Alley, 2019). [https://mcusercontent.com/faa925e173bf3528ea757c85d/images/f113edf8-a22c-4e1d-b9da-f699cff825ee.jpeg] Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) and The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015). She earned a BA from University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA in poetry from the University of New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Poetry magazine, Gulf Coast, and The Believer, among other periodicals. Scenters-Zapico has taught at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Westminster College, the University of Texas at El Paso, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, the Great Lakes Colleges Association Prize, the Utah Book Award, and the National Association of Chicano/a Studies Book Award. She has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship and has served as a CantoMundo Fellow. In 2018, Scenters-Zapico was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. https://www.nataliescenterszapico.net/ [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