Salem Poetry Project Meetup

Joe Wilkins’s debut novel, Fall Back Down When I Die, praised as “remarkable and unforgettable” in a starred review at Booklist, was short-listed for the First Novel Prize from the Center For Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Fall Back Down When I Die won the 2020 High Plains Book Award and has now been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, and German. Wilkins’s latest novel, The Entire Sky, tells the intertwining stories of a young runaway who bears a striking resemblance to Kurt Cobain, a grieving sheep rancher, and a woman in the middle of her life not knowing which way to go. Wilkins is also the author of four poetry collections, most recently Pastoral, 1994; Thieve, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award.

Charles K. Carter is a queer poet from Iowa who now lives in Salem with their husband and spoiled pets. They enjoy live music, yoga, and theatre. Melissa Etheridge is their ultimate obsession. Carter is the author of Follow This Blood to Find a Dead Thing (Fernwood Press), The God of Loneliness (Rebel Satori Press), and If the World Were a Quilt (Kelsay Books).

For the months of November through February the Salem Poetry Project will meet at Marco Polo Global Restaurant. The restaurant’s address is 300 Liberty St SE, Salem and the reading will be in the banquet room.

Amelia Díaz Ettinger is an award-winning BIPOC poet and writer. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections and two chapbooks. Her work appears widely in literary journals and anthologies. Her newest book is Between. She lives in Summerville, Oregon, with her partner, animals, and a thriving garden.

For the months of November through February the Salem Poetry Project will meet at Marco Polo Global Restaurant. The restaurant’s address is 300 Liberty St SE, Salem and the reading will be in the banquet room.