Past & Present: in Conversation
The Poets Corner Community of Poetry & Prose - online
4-5:30p Eastern, Sunday, 14 September 2025

Mark Doty, Diane Seuss, and Melissa McKinstry reading some of their current poems, as well as poems written in response to poets or poems that they love, and a conversation about writing, influences, and inspiration.

Each read & discuss their poems individually, then come together and talk about their selections, the poets and poems that they love, how they may have influenced their work.  Plus Q&A from the chat.

This is a FREE event, please register here to get your Zoom invite.

Host of “For a Spell” – A Poet Tree Production –
an evening of poetry and jazz to reset your default
6-8p Pacific, Tuesday, 19 August 2025

with poets Blas Falconer (Rara Avis), Emily Hyland (Divorced Business Partners), and Zea Sandoval,
and the Quincy Reyes Trio

Alumni Programming
on Behalf of the Alumni Council
Pacific University MFA in Writing –
Residency in Forest Grove, Oregon
10:30a-6:15p Pacific, Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Alumni and Fifth Semester Student Prompt Luck
Alumni Panel: Cultivating Writing Relationships–Mentorship in Many Forms
Alumni Reading and Book Sales

Launch Reading
Stonecoast Review - Summer 2025 - Issue #23 - Power
3:15p Eastern, Monday, 16 June 2025

Interview with Catherine-Esther Cowie, poet
Pacific Alumni Craft Talks (PACT) 2.1
6-7:15p Pacific, Tuesday, 10 June 2025

archived on the PACT Desk Set on Substack

Host of “Tilt-a-Whirl”–A Poet Tree Production–
an evening of poetry and jazz to reset your default
6:30-8p Pacific, Tuesday, 25 March 2025

with poets Nancy Miller Gomez (The House of Inconsolable Objects), Cindy Huyser (Cartography), Carly Marie DeMento, and Michael Mark (Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening Than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet) and guitarist Ben Zinn

Poems of Place Craft Talk at the Farnsworth Art Museum - online
3-4:30p Eastern, 30 April 2025

“Poems of place contain the psychological and geographic maps we make of the worlds we know, think we know, and those we remember.”
––KC Trommer

We’ll be reading and writing poetry inspired by the current exhibit Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870-1930. The session will begin with an orientation to some of the art and artists, led by Francesca Soriano, Associate Curator of American Art.

We’ll read a selection of poems by women whose life and work coincides with these women painters and then a selection of poems by contemporary women poets in Maine, whose work “captures their environment.”

Participants will have the opportunity to explore how place is evoked with craft elements such as detail, image, and form. We will map the worlds we know. There will be time to write, and the option to share what you create.

Host of “The Entropy of Joy”–A Poet Tree Production–
an evening of poetry and jazz to reset your default
6:30-8p Pacific, Tuesday, 20 May 2025

with poets Deborah Allbritain (Osgood), Ron Salisbury (Please Write and Tell Me What I Looked Like When You Met Me), and Sonya Schneider, and The Eric Wesling Trio