Guest readers Lesley Wheeler and Matthew Nienow will be joining us for an evening of poetry!

Lesley Wheeler’s sixth book is Mycocosmic. Her work appears in Orion, Poetry, Poets & Writers, Pleiades, Ecotone, and elsewhere, and she is Poetry Editor of Shenandoah. She has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers Workshop. She hails from Virginia.

Matthew Nienow’s recently released collection, is *If Nothing *(Alice James Books, 2025). He is the author of House of Water and three chapbooks. His work have appeared in Gulf Coast, Lit Hub, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Artist Trust. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife and sons, where he works as a mental health counselor.

Sign up to read opens at 6:45pm. Ages 14+

*Cookies, courtesy of T & C, wine, and tea will be served.

*Hosted by our poet laureate, Michele Bombardier, and Bainbridge Public Library. Event held at Bainbridge Public Library at 1270 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.