Join us for a celebration of Empty Bowl’s fiftieth year of operation. We’ll gather at the Cotton Building in downtown Port Townsend. We’ll be hosting workshops and readings. Here’s a glance at the line up of readings:

11:00 Doors Open! Visit the Archives, Book Table, Raffle for free books

12:00 Poets’ Walk to Memory’s Vault: Walk to Memory’s Vault at Fort Worden with your city poet laureate, Rufina C. Garay. Be in the “Poetic Heart of Fort Worden” as we share voices amplified in the book Memory's Vault published by Empty Bowl Press. Meet outside of Rainshadow Recording Studio (Building 315) at noon. Bring a small pocket notebook, pen, and any small object personal to you and your memory. We also suggest bringing raingear. A Discovery Pass is required for parking at Fort Worden,

2:00 Reading by Current Empty Bowl Authors: Tele Aadsen, Rebekah Anderson, John Brandi, Sally Green, Ed Harkness, Peter Quinn, Ann Spiers

4:00 Tribute Reading & Stories from the Early Days: Stories from the early days of Empty Bowl and readings from the work of writers Tom Jay, Freeman House, Jerry Gorsline, Mike O’Connor, Bill Yake, and Pat Fitzgerald

5:30 Reception & Book Signing

7:00 Reading by Founding Empty Bowl Poets: Michael Daley, Tim McNulty, Bill Porter/Red Pine, Bill Ransom, Finn Wilcox

8:30 Co-publishers Holly & John Wrap Up & Look Ahead

Join us for a reading by Sally and Sam Green, as they each read from their new books—Sally’s Tending the Flock, from Empty Bowl, and Sam’s Sage & Discipline, from White Pine Press. We’ll gather at the Meeting House in Port Townsend, 1841 Sheridan St.

Join Sally and Sam Green for a reading at Seattle Univesity on October 6. The reading takes place at 4:00 p.m. in the Popko lounge, on the top floor of the library.

There will also be an exhibition of Brooding Heron and Jawbone Press books to celebrate 50 years of publishing. 

Please join us for a reading with Sally Green, author of Tending the Flock, at the San Juan Island Library on Sunday, September 27. The event will begin at 3:00 p.m., and will also feature poets Sam Green and Gary Thompson, who will be reading from their own new releases.

Anacortes Library, part of the 2026-27 Madrona Poetry Series. Sally and Sam are joined by Jeremy Voight. The library is located at 904 6th Street.

Check back soon for details about the launch for our anthology Cascadia Works: Tend, Gather, Harvest, Restore.

Please join us on August 28 at 6:00 p.m. for a reading from Empty Bowl author Mistee St. Clair and fellow author Annie Wenstrup. The reading will take place at Solstice Books in Fairbanks Alaska. Mistee will be reading from her new book, Reconciliations.

Please join us at Grace Ridge Brewery in Homer, AK for a reading from Empty Bowl author Mistee St. Clair. Alongside performances by other Storyknife residents, Mistee will be reading from her new book Reconciliations. More info to come.

Join us on Zoom, link to come, on August 20 for a reading from Empty Bowl author Mistee St. Clair. Reading from her new book, Reconciliations, Mistee will be participating in Storyknife’s Zoom event celebrating local Alaskan female authors. More info to come.

Join us in Juneau, Alaska for a reading from Empty Bowl author Mistee St. Clair. Hosted by Hearthside Books, the event will take place downtown at the Merchants Wharf on Friday, August 7 at 4:30 p.m. Mistee will be reading from her new book, Reconciliations.

Join us at the Port Townsend meeting house for a reading by Peter Quinn and Kelli Russell Agodon. Peter will read from a thread I didn’t know I was hanging by, just released by Empty Bowl. Kelli Agodon will read from her new book from Copper Canyon Press, Accidental Devotions.

Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Street, Port Townsend

Join us for a reading by Charles Goodrich and Finn Wilcox. Charles Goodrich, here from Corvallis, OR, will read from his just-released Knot House: New & Selected Poems. Finn will read from The Silence of Shooting Stars and Too Late to Turn Back Now.

American Book Award-winner Anna Odessa Linzer will read from her memoir Writing Home, recently released by Empty Bowl Press. Set at the Treehouse, designed by noted architect Tom Bosworth, Writing Home is a meditation on place, family, architecture, and wilderness. Work by Annaʼs sons, the artists Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen, will be featured in the gallery during the month of May.

Peter Miller Books, Pioneer Square, Post Alley, 304 Alaskan Way South, Seattle. Click here for more information.

Charles Goodrich reads from Knot House: New & Selected Poems in Corvallis, Oregon, on April 23. The reading is presented by the Spring Creek Project. You’ll find more details here.

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Jerry Martien, author of Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, the Voyage of the Grampus, and Our Biopoetic Future, beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Hopkins Marine Station, on Tuesday, April 7. In this discussion, Jerry Martien will bring his own novel, Waveshock, into conversation with the novel Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska, recently published under Empty Bowl.

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Jerry Martien, author of Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, the Voyage of the Grampus, and Our Biopoetic Future, beginning at 11:00 a.m. at the Monterey Public Library, on Saturday, April 4. In this discussion, Jerry Martien will bring his own novel, Waveshock, into conversation with the novel Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska, recently published under Empty Bowl.

Join us for a book launch event for Writing Home, a memoir written by local author Anna Odessa Linzer, also published with Empty Bowl in Seasons Unleashed. The event will take place on Thursday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m., and will feature a reading from the upcoming novel. Writing Home is a moving, lyrical portrait of both family betrayal and family love and the healing power of place and nature.

Please join us for a reading from Empty Bowl poet Ann Spiers at Poets at the Postmark. Doors for the event will open at 6:00 p.m., and the poetry reading will begin at 6:30 p.m. Following Ann Spiers, there will be an open mic event, as well as art from local artists for sale throughout the night.

Please join Ann Spiers, Wild Cucumber, for a reading with Kevin Murphy as part of Madrona Series Poetry at 7:00 p.m. on March 28. The event will be hosted by Pelican Bay Books, found at 520 Commercial Avenue in Anacortes, WA.

Please join us in further celebrating the works of author Ann Spiers at the Poet and Artist Awards Reception of the Art in a Poem gallery. The Awards Reception will take place on Thursday, March 12, from 11:00-4:00 p.m., with a reading taking place from 12:00-1:00p.m. The location will remain Studio 103 at the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, found at 113 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA.

Please join us in Port Townsend at the Friends Meeting House for a reading and conversation with Jerry Martien, author of Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, the Voyage of the Grampus, and Our Biopoetic Future, and editor of A Watershed Runs Through You, a collection of essays by bioregionalist visionary Freeman House. The event is free, and light refreshments will be served. The reading will begin at 5:00 p.m., and for more information please feel free to contact us at editor@emptybowl.org.

Please join Empty Bowl poets Ann Spiers, Wild Cucumber, and Ed Harkness, Creek Water, along with fellow author Shannon Kringen at C&P Coffee Company for a reading hosted by PoetryBridge. The event will take place at 6 p.m.

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Jerry Martien, author of Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, the Voyage of the Grampus, and Our Biopoetic Future, and editor of A Watershed Runs Through You, a collection of essays by bioregionalist visionary Freeman House. Waveshock reflects on the voyage and conversations of a cohort of four questing souls--Ricketts, environmentalist Jack Calvin, Calvin's wife, Sasha, and mythologist Joseph Campell--aboard a thirty-three-foot cabin cruiser. In A Watershed Runs Through You, Freeman House's engaging, lyrical essays offer equal parts inspiration and on-the-ground knowledge for our increasingly climate-challenged times.

The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Stuart T. Rolfe room in Seattle University’s Admissions and Alumni building. It is hosted by the Seattle University Philosophy Department.