Washington State Book Award-winning poet Ed Skoog (Rough Day) reads from his newest collection, Run the Red Lights (Copper Canyon Press). "Run the red lights" were the last words the musician Alex Chilton spoke to his wife on the way to the hospital. In Skoog's new book the poems are running all the lights, the

Poets Kathryn Nuernberger and Maya Jewell Zeller will share the stage and read from their most recent collections. Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Nuernberger's collection, The End of Pink (BOA Editions) is populated by strange characters—Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin—all from the annals of science and pseudoscience.

Please join us for an open writing time to write about post-election feelings: whether grief, hope, fear, rage, despair, or courage. Come and write in one of the open spaces in the House, or take part in a writing circle facilitated by Anne Liu Kellor. You will free-write from prompts, followed by time for volunteers