Poetry Reading with Peter Ludwin and Carolyne Wright April 23, 2009

Celebrate the release of Peter Ludwin's new book A Guest in All Your Houses with a reading by Ludwin and Carolyne Wright. Peter Ludwin is the recipient of a Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust. He was the 2007-2008 Second Prize Winner of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for poems on the Jewish experience, and was a finalist for the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award. An avid traveler, for the past eight years he has been a participant in the San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He owns a small trailer and twenty acres of land near Big Bend National Park in Texas, but lives most of the year tucked up against the Green River in Kent, Washington. This is his first full length collection.

Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry. Her most recent, A Change of Maps, was a finalist for the Idaho Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America, and won the 2007 Independent Book Publishers’ Bronze Award. Wright's memoir of her experiences in Chile on a Fulbright Study Grant during the presidency of Salvador Allende, The Road to Isla Negra, received the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and the Crossing Boundaries Award from International Quarterly. Wright has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, Seattle Arts Commission, and New York State Council on the Arts. In 2008, she was Thornton Poet in Residence at Lynchburg College, and Distinguished Northwest Poet at Seattle University.

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