May News from Empty Bowl Press
April 29, 2026
Dear friends of Empty Bowl,
Along with a profusion of fragrant pink blossoms on our cherry trees, May brings opportunities to celebrate our authors’ latest releases, an online interview and reading with Finn Wilcox, and a date for our fiftieth-anniversary celebration in Port Townsend in the fall. Please read on . . .
Join us in Seattle May 6 at 5:30 p.m. at Peter Miller’s Architecture & Design Books in Pioneer Square to celebrate Anna Linzer’s moving memoir, Writing Home. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. Anna’s sons, artists Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen, will have work on display in the gallery throughout May.
Charles Goodrich’s Knot House launched last week in Corvallis to an appreciative crowd of more than 100! Thanks again to the Spring Creek Project for hosting this reading. Charles will be reading in Port Townsend on May 8 at 6 p.m. at the Meeting House, teaming up with long-time Empty Bowl poet Finn Wilcox, who will be reading from The Silence of a Shooting Star and Too Late to Turn Back Now. Details below and on our website.
On May 21, we’re celebrating the launch of Peter Quinn’s a thread I didn’t know I was hanging by, a poetry collection that celebrates the healing power of love and what it means to be a son, father, husband, and friend. Peter will be reading with Copper Canyon poet Kelli Russell Agodon as part of the Readings at the Meeting House series, which starts at 7 p.m.
Finally, as part of our year-long 5oth anniversary celebration, we’ve been posting links to interviews with the founders and early contributors to Empty Bowl. This month, we’ve added an interview with Finn Wilcox. You can also listen to interviews with Michael Daley and Tim McNulty and find links to all three reading their poems. A deep bow of gratitude to Richard Meadows for conducting these interviews and filming the videos.
SAVE THE DATE!
We’ll be celebrating Empty Bowl’s 50th anniversary on
October 10 at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend.
More details to come.
We hope to see you at a May reading—and in October at the 50th celebration! In the meantime, enjoy spring!
With thanks,
Holly and John