When: 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20
Where: Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive
Details: The monthly “Windfall Reading Series” features writers Charles Goodrich and Nancy Carol Moody.
Often funny and always full of surprises, Charles Goodrich’s poems, essays, and fiction highlight graceful ways of inhabiting the Earth. Goodrich shares recent poems, and excerpts from his novel-in-progress, “Beer Farm.” Goodrich’s writing revels in odd encounters with plants, insects, birds, humans, and other animals, and marvels at the extraordinary improbability of each moment. Goodrich is the author of three books of poetry, “A Scripture of Crows,” “Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden,” and “Insects of South Corvallis,” and a collection of essays, “The Practice of Home.”
Nancy Carol Moody’s poems feature characters such as a mermaid displaced on dry land; a man at mid-life, looking forward and looking behind; and a wheelchair representing hope as much as despair. Funny or sly, melancholic or cutting, her poems are rich with the contradictions inherent in living a full and human life. Her works have been published in poetry journals as well as in two collections of her own, “The House of Nobody Home” and “Photograph with Girls,” and a chapbook, “Mermaid.”
The Windfall Reading Series is presented in partnership by the Eugene Public Library and Lane Literary Guild. Refreshments served at intermission.
Admission: Free
Information: Eugene-or.gov/library, 541-682-5450
