Snohomish County book calendar
Published 1:30 am Sunday, August 6, 2017
Matt Gano
7:30 p.m. Aug. 11, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts
Gano is the author of “Suits for the Swarm,” a poetry collection from MoonPath Press. He will read from his works. Gano is involved with the Skagit River Poetry Festival and the Fremont Abbey Arts Center. He represented Seattle at the National Poetry Slam multiple years and is a former Seattle Grand-Slam champion. Cost is $12. The center is at 565 Camano Ave., Langley.
Warren Read
2 p.m. Aug. 13, Everett Public Library
An Everett native and former Everett Public Schools teacher, Read will read from, talk about and sign copies of his debut novel, “Ash Falls.” It’s a complex psychological story set in a town modeled after Granite Falls, with references to Everett, Lake Stevens, Monroe and Darrington. The local setting figures heavily into the story, which Booklist has called the novel “part rural fiction, part Northwest Noir.” It is published by Ig Publishing, a New York-based press devoted to publishing original literary fiction. Read, who now lives in Kingston, came of age in the Riverside neighborhood of Everett. He also is the author of the 2009 memoir, “The Lyncher in Me.” In 2015 he earned his master’s in fine arts degree in the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. The library is at 2702 Hoyt Ave.
Kate K. Lund
5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 17, Edmonds Bookshop
Lund will talk about and sign copies of her latest book, “Bounce: Help Your Child Build Resilience and Thrive in School, Sports and Life.” The book presents the author’s vision of the seven pillars of a resilient child during the elementary school years along with specific strategies for bolstering resilience of your own child or children you work with. The shop is at 111 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds.
Linnea Hartsuyker
7 p.m. Aug. 25, Mill Creek’s University Book Store
Hartsuyker takes readers to the world of ninth-century Vikings in her debut novel “The Half-Drowned King.” She will talk about the book and sign copies. Nordic music by fiddlers Martha Levenson and Vicki Watt Warshaw is offered at 6 p.m. The store is at 15311 Main St.
Poetry readings
7 p.m. Mondays, Black Lab Gallery, Everett
The gallery offers a poetry reading each Monday evening at 1618 Hewitt Ave. For more information, call 425-512-9476.
7 p.m. Thursdays, Cafe Zippy, Everett
Everett Poetry night at the cafe is on most Thursday evenings at 1502 Rucker Ave. Call 425-303-0474.
6 p.m. first Thursdays, Hibulb Cultural Center, Tulalip
Open mic follows. In the library at 6410 23rd Ave. NE.
— Gale Fiege, Herald writer
