Reading the Rainbow

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A poetry event with Oregon poets Carol barrett and Judith H. Montgomery

Join poets Carol and Judy as they read poems saturated with color from a new anthology, The Color Wheel. It features 117 poems by 117 poets—and five are from Oregon. Imagine the delirium of yellow as bees take to the flower garden, or the cool green of a stream where lovers reconnect. The scarlet of that red dress daring to wear, the black dress unbuttoned by the mistress as she drives home. We invite visual artists as well as writers across the spectrum to join us.

Judy (blue/gold/black) and Carol (pink) will read their own poems and a rainbow’s worth of their favorites from the anthology.  They will be happy to talk about writing and how color enriches writing and life in the Q and A afterwards.  A few copies of The Color Wheel will be available for purchase, as well copies of Carol and Judy’s own poetry books. 

About the Presenters: 

Carol Barrett has published three volumes of poetry, most recently Reading Wind, and one of creative nonfiction, Pansies. An NEA Fellow in Poetry, she currently supervises creative dissertations for doctoral students at two universities.

Judith H. Montgomery’s poems appear in the Gyroscope, South Florida Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and Epiphany, among other journals. Her chapbook Passion received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her second full-length collection, Litany for Wound and Bloom, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Prize, appeared in 2018.  Her prize-winning narrative medicine chapbook, Mercy, appeared from Wolf Ridge Press in 2019. Her latest chapbook, The Ferry Keeper, received the 2024 Grayson Books Chapbook Competition Prize.

Questions? Contact lizg@deschuteslibrary.org