Tess Gallagher At Field Arts & Events Hall at Field Arts And Events Hall

Renowned Poet Tess Gallagher takes the stage to read from her work. Q&A and book signing to follow. This event is part of the Raymond Carver & Tess Gallagher Creative Writing Festival 2024 at Peninsula College. Tickets for this reading are available for $15 through the Estill & Reba Cornett Box Office at Field Hall. All access festival passes (which include 16 events and 2 lunches) can be purchased through Peninsula College.Tess Gallagher, the author of eleven books of poetry, lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington, and in her cottage in Co. Sligo, Ireland. She received a Life Time Achievement Award for her poetry from the Foundation of Rome in 2023...

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Renowned Poet Tess Gallagher takes the stage to read from her work. Q&A and book signing to follow. This event is part of the Raymond Carver & Tess Gallagher Creative Writing Festival 2024 at Peninsula College. Tickets for this reading are available for $15 through the Estill & Reba Cornett Box Office at Field Hall. All access festival passes (which include 16 events and 2 lunches) can be purchased through Peninsula College.Tess Gallagher, the author of eleven books of poetry, lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington, and in her cottage in Co. Sligo, Ireland. She received a Life Time Achievement Award for her poetry from the Foundation of Rome in 2023. She is the only American to have been so honored. Her most recent poetry collection is Is, Is Not. Gallagher participated in BIRDMAN and SHORT CUTS, films centered on the work of her late husband Raymond Carver’s stories. Her own collection, The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories, published in 2009, is the basis for film episodes under development.Photo Credit: Tim Crosby

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