Poetry Reading with Linda Russo & Gerald Wagoner
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 6–7 p.m.
Brused Books, 235 E. Main Street, Pullman
Space is limited and attendance is capped at 20 people.
Presenter bios:
Poet, curator, and creative collaborator Linda Russo practices poetry as an engagement within more-than-human lifeworlds. She is currently a “poet-in-prairie-remnant-residence” with the Palouse Land Trust, a collaboration organized by Writing The Land, whose mission is to promote land trust projects nationally by connecting them with poets in their region. A 2023 Artist Trust GAP recipient, she is the author of three book of poems, including Participant (Lost Roads) and Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way (Shearsman), and many other works. She teaches in the English Department at WSU and directs EcoArtsonthePalouse.com.
Gerald Wagoner’s When Nothing Wild Remains (Broadstone Books, 2023) looks out across miles and years to the northwestern to address how Americans have struggled to come to terms with the changing realities of a national identity forged in openness and wild places such as those where Wagoner grew up. With a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and an MFA Sculpture from SUNY Albany, he’s taught Art and English in New York. Since 2021 he has curated A Persistence of Cormorants, a summer outdoors poetry reading series in Brooklyn, NY.
Sponsored by the Department of English.
