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National Poetry Month Reading
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Portland poets Amy Baskin, Andrea Deeken, Genevieve DeGuzman, and Theresa Q. Tran as they read poems that nurture and engage the collective spirit. In times of great uncertainty, what gives us sustenance? How do we take care of ourselves and one another in difficult times? Join these award-winning poets in creative conversation with poems that nurture.
Andrea Deeken (she/they) is the author of the chapbook, MOTHER KINGDOM, winner of the 2021 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition and 2022 International Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of journals including Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words, The Blue Mountain Review, erbacce Journal UK, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, and Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. A former book editor, she has worked for Multnomah County Library for nearly two decades. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.
Amy Baskin is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow, and an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner. Her work has been featured in journals including The Timberline Review, Friends Journal, and Pirene’s Fountain. When not writing, she works for the Departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark College and helps run literary arts programs including Fir Acres Writing Workshop. She is the author of Hysterical Cake (Dancing Girl Press, 2022), and Night Hag (Unsolicited Press, 2023), which explores femininity through the eternal voice of Lilith, the first woman, and Skull (The Poetry Box, 2024), a journey of healing from a brain injury sustained in the context of our collective, trying times.
Genevieve DeGuzman is the author of Karaoke at the End of the World (2026, JackLeg Press). She has been an Oregon Literary Fellow and an Alice James Award finalist. Locally, she was featured in the Poetry Moves project, Oregon Arts Watch, and ChatterPDX. Her work appears in The Adroit, Nimrod, phoebe and elsewhere.
Theresa Q. Tran is a lifelong student of the natural world. Born in Vietnam, she has traveled all seven continents including science support deployments to Antarctica. As a certified astrologer and MFA-trained writer, Theresa explores the intersections of archetypal storytelling with social justice, wisdom traditions, and the creative soul.