February 15, 2024

Pleasure Boat Studio is a nonprofit literary press dedicated to enriching readers with eye-opening stories and poetry by incredible talent, with heart, originality, and love of language. Visit the website.

Tonight’s reading features four Pleasure Boat Studio poets:

Alicia Hokanson, Mercedes Lawry, Anne Pitkin, and Sherry Mossafer Rind

See Facebook event.

Alicia Hokanson’s Mapping the Distance was Carolyn Kizer’s choice for the King County Arts Commission prize. After Insistent in the Skin and Phosphorous, her latest book, Perishable World, won the Eyelands prize in 2021. She lives in Seattle.

Mercedes Lawry is the author of three chapbooks. Her poetry book, Vestiges, was published in late 2022 by Kelsay Books. Her collection Small Measures will be published in 2024. She’s also published short fiction.

Anne Pitkin has published three full-length collections: Yellow, Winter Arguments, and But Still, Music (Pleasure Boat Studios, 2023) She is an editor emerita of Fine Madness, a poetry magazine that retired after twenty successful years.

Sherry Mossafer Rind has received awards from Anhinga Press, local Arts Commissions, National Endowment for the Arts, and Artist Trust. Her sixth collection of poetry is The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment, Pleasure Boat Studio. Visit her website.