Poets will converge at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner to offer a reading and discussion from the most recent issue of the anthology series, The Madrona Project: This Machine is Made for Earth, recently published by Empty Bowl press in Chimacum, Washington.
This final edition of the Madrona Project anthologies offers a view of tools and machines as partner, asset, enemy, threat, and persona in the lives of poets, essayists, and artists. The first section takes us from primitive tools, through the printer’s craft, to methods of farming, building, demolition, and self-expression. Another section deals with machines that move: trains, ships, the heart itself. The book contains a sampler of the work of Clemens Starck, whose life and livelihood depended on well-oiled equipment. In the final section, the machines of war employ the human body in personal as well as global histories.
This event will be MC’d by Michael Daley and will include readings from poets published in The Madrona Project: This Machine is Made for Earth including: Morgan Randall, Susan Rich, Randy Dills, Stephen Roxborough, Robert McNamara, Georgia Johnson, Steven Dolmatz, Holly Hughes, Heidi Seaborn, Janée J. Baugher, and Leslie Wharton.
The event will conclude with a Q&A and book signing. Copies of the anthology will be available for purchase. This event is part of The Writing’s on the Wall: Poetry at MoNA, in which MoNA partners with a range of poets and organizations to bring poetry into the museum through readings, open mic events and writing workshops.
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