About Moon-Marked: Poems by cousins Linda Appel and Peg Edera that touch on family, nature, art, spirituality, and connections across generations. Moon-Marked offers wise reflections and an invitation to readers to also reflect deeply on their own connections to family and the wider world. They will also be reading other work.

2024 was a banner year for poet, author and columnist Ellen Waterston who, that year, received Soapstone’s Bread and Roses Award, Literary Arts’ Stewart H Holbrook Award, and was named to a two-year term as the eleventh Poet Laureate of Oregon. She has dedicated herself to writing and advocating for the literary arts in the high…

Happy Birthday to William Stafford. Celebratory readings are held during Stafford's birthday month, January, in Oregon and the nation, in honor of the late poet. Stafford taught for many years at Lewis and Clark College and was a beloved and influential Oregon Poet Laureate from 1975 through 1989. We are looking forward to highlighting Stafford’s…