A celebration of my new award-winning poetry volume: “The Fates” is happening on Saturday evening, July 29th, 6:30 p.m. at Orca Books, 509 E. 4th Ave. in downtown Olympia.  As the title suggests, the book is organized around the Three Sisters from classical mythology who ruled the lives of humans: spinning the thread of life, measuring it and snipping it at the end.  Thus the question I am asking is how much control do we have over our lives?   A number of the poems deal with the difficult life of my grandmother Esther, a psychic medium.  Some talk about my experiences as a Hospice RN.  Others are autobiographical or address themes from both science and nature.

During my presentation, I will talk about individual poems and how the book came to be and how I won Bright Hill Press’ contest.  And of course, I will read and recite poems Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos choose for me!  I also welcome questions about poetry and my writing.  My theme always: I just love poetry!

I hope you will join me in this celebration of art and life!