**TONIGHT’S EVENT POSTPONED** Unfortunately we need to postpone tonight's event out of caution for safety. We were looking forward to our first community poetry night, but flexibility is the key with this winter weather! We will let you know when we have a new date.

Thank you for understanding.

POETRY NIGHT: We’ll be trying something new - a poetry open mic followed by a reading by featured poet Donna Henderson. Come and share a poem you have written, or a poem you love!

Sign-ups for poetry open mic will begin at 6 pm. Each reader is limited to 2 poems or 5 minutes, and we will get to as many as we can! Please know this is an all ages event, all are welcome, and adult content may possibly be shared. If you have any questions about poetry open mic, please email events@paulinaspringsbooks.com.

About Send Word:

To be born is to cleave in the double sense of the word (to split from and to cling to): it is that first splitting which generates the urge to return, to bind.

These poems explore varieties of cleaving and their tensions, as the speaker navigates these across a lifetime: tensions between our feral and civil selves, between compliance and transgression, between connection and individuation, between containment and surrender, and between what the worlds of waking and dreaming each ask and offer. Ultimately, these poems are about language itself as both a means and a way, as language imagines for itself a unity located precisely in the places between.

Author Bio

Donna Henderson is the author of three previous collections of poems, two of which (Transparent Woman and The Eddy Fence) were finalists for the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Her poems, song lyrics, essays, reviews and artwork appear in journals, anthologies, exhibits and recordings. A practicing psychotherapist, Donna lives with her husband, Rich Sutliff, on the banks of the Deschutes River in north-central Oregon.