Poetry by the River: An Evening with Kara Briggs
Join A Book for All Seasons and the Wenatchee River Institute for a special outdoor poetry reading with Indigenous author, Kara Briggs. We will gather together on the Wenatchee River Institute campus overlooking the winding Wenatchee River to hear poems from Briggs that weave stories from Northwest tribes.
Kara Briggs is a Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Citizen and a Yakama direct descendant. She lives on the Tulalip reservation. Her first book of poetry, Rivers in My Veins, was published by Saint Julian Press in late 2024. That same year, she received the James Welch Prize from Poetry Northwest and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Arts. Her book features poems in many forms and styles of poetry, telling the story of her Northwest tribes and relations from her hometown of Spokane, to her tribes in the North Cascades and the rivers Skagit, Wenatchee and Columbia. She was career journalist, and now likes to say that her literary career is afoot.
Schedule for the evening:
6:30pm - Meet & greet with the author
7:00pm - Poetry reading begins followed by a Q&A
7:45pm - Book signing begins
8:00pm - Event closes
