# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Evening with Two Poets – Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 01 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Enter a forest of poems about patience, grace, and wonder. About discovering the code of abiding life already within us. When We Become Trees cultivates the tension of becoming: rooting down while reaching up and trying to see heaven on earth—trying to find the divine even among the rocks around us. This is a book for those who, like trees, are willing to grow “ring-slow but steady.”

Anna Elkins is a poet and painter. She earned a BA in art and English, an MFA in poetry, and a Fulbright Fellowship to write in Germany. She has written, painted, and taught on six continents, exhibiting paintings and publishing books along the way, including her poetry collection, Hope of Stones, which won an Oregon Book Award. Anna now lives in a small town on a big river with her husband and many trees. For more, visit: annaelkins.com.

Painter and writer Jacalyn McNamara has worked as a freelance journalist, college writing teacher, and manager of California’s oldest art center, always attending to the poetry and music woven through the world. Her poems move through the personal, cultural, historical, and mythological, exploring thin places where spirits slip through and territories that are unstable or paradoxical. Her work has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Jefferson Journal, and elsewhere. Most recently, she has been writing poems to accompany artist Betty LaDuke’s Turtle Wisdom exhibit.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ashland/an-evening-with-two-poets-anna-elkins-and-jacalyn-mcnamara/200030370265336
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 16

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Ashland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 290 East Main St, Ashland, OR, United States, Oregon 97520
- **lat**: 42.19534
- **long**: -122.71165
- **full address**: 290 East Main St, Ashland, OR, United States, Oregon 97520

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is An Evening with Two Poets - Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara being held?
  - **A:** An Evening with Two Poets - Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara takes place on Thu, 01 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 01 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 290 East Main St, Ashland, OR, United States, Oregon 97520.
- **Q**: Who is organizing An Evening with Two Poets - Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara?
  - **A:** An Evening with Two Poets - Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara is organized by Bloomsbury Books.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** An Evening with Two Poets - Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Ashland, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If An Evening with Two Poets - Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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