Bainbridge Island Poet Laureate

09/02/2026

08/21/2026

Pop-Up Poetry at the Farmers Market tomorrow! Come say hello and request a poem from one of our local talented poets! 10-2p—look for the booth with the typewriters;)

https://www.bainbridgeislandpoetlaureate.org/upcoming-events-and-workshops

08/06/2026

Cindy Veach read from her excellent new collection Monster Galaxy at our July Third Thursday event. Here she is talking about her books with poetry lovers. 💚

08/02/2026

Check us out Saturday mornings at the Bainbridge Island Farmers Market! Also: Take a poetry book/leave a poetry book - or contribute a poem! - in our Little Free Poetry Library in front of Bainbridge Performing Arts.

07/09/2026

Artist and poet Clare Johnson will be giving a talk this Sunday at the Bainbridge Public Library about her longtime project, A Life in Sticky Notes. Free to attend. This is a fascinating project and we can’t wait to hear more!

07/08/2026

In June we welcomed Kieron Walquist, author of Our Hands Hold Violence. If you haven’t read it yet, check it out! Our audience was very engaged. Kieron also read Elliott Bay Book Company where he *may* have been the tallest person photographed next to their sign? The mountain was out for his visit. And look at that face with this cribbage hand of 24! ♣️📖🗻

07/04/2026

Catching up with some photos of Samyak Shertok reading at our May event at the library. No Rhododendrons is such a good book! He also read with Michele Bombardier at Eagle Harbor Books to help celebrate her new collection, Don’t Ask Me How I Know— look at this cute pic of them signing 📚💕

07/03/2026

The Little Free Library is open!! Thank you BARN, Bainbridge Community Foundation, BPA, and Michele Bombardier for helping to make this happen!

06/24/2026

Summer here on the island is rolling right along! Will you join us on July 16 for the wonderful Cindy Veach? Her new collection, Monster Galaxy, is out now from Moon Path Press. 🌞

06/18/2026

Tonight!