An Evening with Derek Sheffield, Washington State Poet Laureate

An Evening with Derek Sheffield, Washington State Poet Laureate
Thursday, January 15, 2025, 5:30 PM
Washington State History Museum
FREE

Join us for the “We the People” free public program series on the third Thursday evening of each month.

Celebrated poet and professor Derek Sheffield will read original work reflecting on Washingtonian identities. Sheffield is Washington’s eighth State Poet Laureate.

Sheffield lives in the Wenatchee Valley and teaches English at Wenatchee Valley College. He has published several poetry collections, edits poetry for Terrian.org, and has received fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Artist Trust, the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, and the Spring Creek Foundation for his poetry.

This program is held in partnership with ArtsWA.

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