Poetry Reading with Laura Winter and Jennifer Rood

Jennifer Rood‘s poetry explores the wonders that exist all around us—in people, in nature, in the everyday—​and invites you to enjoy, along with her, some of the many treasures she has found.

She will be reading poems from her book Present and Speaking Everywhere: A Collection of Found Poetry/Art (Not a Pipe Publishing, 2024) and also from the body of work she produced as the Oregon Caves National Monument’s Artist-in-Residence in Fall 2023.

Laura Winter will be reading from her most recent book and collaboration, noble scratch, roughly spoken, released by as if press. This new book is a collection of 25 poems by Laura Winter and 25 drawings by Brad Winter. The drawings have been selected from Brad’s ROUGH BOOK series of visual art. It is the first time the two Winter artists have been published together in a book. The poems in noble scratch, roughly spoken range thematically with meditations, songs, jazz inspired interludes and musings about climate change and its impacts on what it means to alive. There will be a discussion on the origins of the book and collaboration.