# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Ed Taylor and Reagan Jackson discuss "The Power of the River"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 08:15 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for a conversation with local luminaries Ed Taylor and Reagan Jackson about Taylor’s new memoir.About this EventThis event will take place on Level 4, Room 1.About the Book:From a former Gonzaga basketball player and current University of Washington Dean and Vice Provost comes a memoir steeped in the universal truths and human pursuits of love, grace, forgiveness, and continued growth.Ed Taylor takes readers on a journey from Lompoc, California through a childhood marked with loss but grounded in the love and support of family and community, to a singular moment that changed everything for a boy set up by the system to be a cog in the machine.But Taylor’s story is only beginning on the day Gonzaga University offers him a full ride: Faced with questions every young Black man on a basketball scholarship has heard—questions like “Do you even belong here?” and “Do you really think you can cut it?”—Taylor answers by examining himself, everything that brought him to this place, and all that he hopes to bring to the world, and by rising to the ever-increasing challenges he sets for himself.In “The Power of the River,” Ed Taylor offers perspective on his journey as it relates to the larger, human one we’re all on together, inviting us to celebrate the many individuals—family members, teachers, coaches, colleagues, friends, and chance acquaintances—who lifted him up and taught him along the way and reminding us that even while we are responsible for our impacts on those in our lives, we all deserve some measure of grace.Dr. Edward Taylor has been a friend, a colleague a partner, a son, a father, a teacher, a student, and a fisher on the river of life, and here he shares what he knows of its power.About the Speakers:Ed Taylor is a former Gonzaga basketball player and current University of Washington Dean and Vice Provost.Reagan E. J. Jackson (she/her) lives in Seattle, Washington and dedicates her time to being a writer, facilitator and a book doula. When she's not doing that she is likely traveling, cooking something delicious, soaking in the spa, frolicking on a beach, or practicing her ukulele.Reagan is the author of “Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist,” which won a Bronze Medal in Creative Nonfiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (The Ippys) 2024. The author of three full-length poetry collections and two children’s books, Reagan brings heart, integrity, and joy to everything she creates. Her essays and reporting have appeared in the South Seattle Emerald, the Seattle Globalist, Yes! Magazine, the Black Girl Nerds Blog, Real Change News, and Crosscut. She has also been anthologized in “Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures,” “Fly to the Assemblies!: Seattle and the Rise of the Resistance,” and “Emerald Reflections: A South Seattle Anthology Volumes 1 and 2.”Presented with support from The Seattle Public Library Foundation, The Gary and Connie Kunis Foundation, and The Seattle Times. Free and reduced access supported by 4Culture.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/ed-taylor-and-reagan-jackson-discuss-the-power-of-the-river/100001991489676231
- **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Age Limit: all_ages
  - door_time: 2026-10-23T01:30:00Z
  - Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
  - Location: Seattle Public Library-Central Library
  - Languages: English

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Seattle
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Seattle Public Library-Central Library
- **lat**: 47.6067006
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- **full address**: Seattle Public Library-Central Library, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Ed Taylor and Reagan Jackson discuss "The Power of the River" being held?
  - **A:** Ed Taylor and Reagan Jackson discuss "The Power of the River" takes place on Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 08:15 pm at Seattle Public Library-Central Library, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Ed Taylor and Reagan Jackson discuss "The Power of the River"?
  - **A:** Ed Taylor and Reagan Jackson discuss "The Power of the River" is organized by SPL.

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