News from Empty Bowl Press
February 27, 2026
Dear Empty Bowl friends,
We hope spring will soon be arriving wherever this finds you. For us, spring brings a procession of Empty Bowl readings, new books, and—in celebration of Empty Bowl’s fiftieth anniversary—the launching of a series of interviews with Empty Bowl’s founder and several early contributors. The first of these interviews features Empty Bowl founder Michael Daley—you can find a link and more details later in this newsletter.
In early March we’re delighted to be hosting Jerry Martien, up from his home in Eureka, California, for readings in Seattle and Port Townsend. Jerry is the author of Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, the Voyage of the Grampus, and Our Biopoetic Future and the editor of A Watershed Runs Through You, a collection of essays and reflections by Freeman House. At Jerry’s reading, “From Waveshocks to Watersheds,” you’ll learn about Ed Ricketts’s wave shock theory and the collaborative approach to watershed restoration developed and practiced by Freeman House. Jerry will also share poems from his new collection.
Jerry’s books were the focus of a recent interview we had on KPTZ’s Attention Please! with host Phil Andrus.
Here are the details for the readings:
Tuesday, March 10, 6-7 p.m. at the Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room at Seattle University. Check our events page for more details and a map. A deep bow of gratitude to Dr. Jason Wirth and Seattle University’s Department of Philosophy for hosting this event.
Thursday, March 12, 5-7 p.m. at the Port Townsend Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Avenue, Port Townsend. You can find more details on our events page.
Later in March, we’re launching Writing Home: A Memoir by Anna Odessa Linzer, author of the poetry collection Season Unleashed (published by Empty Bowl in 2024), Ghost Dancing (winner of an American Book Award), and the Home Waters trilogy from Marquand Books. Writing Home is a moving, lyrical portrait of both family betrayal and family love and the healing power of place and nature.
We hope you’ll join us April 2 at 5:30 p.m. at Imprint Bookshop in Port Townsend for Linzer’s debut reading. We will also be celebrating with Anna in Seattle with a reading and an art exhibit May 6 and 7 at Peter Miller’s bookstore in Pioneer Square—more details will be posted on the Empty Bowl website soon. In the meantime, Writing Home is now available on our website for preorders.
Not far behind Writing Home will be Oregon poet, essayist, and novelist Charles Goodrich’s collection of new and selected poems, Knot House. There’s much to learn in this collection about carpentry, insects, gardening, and home. Mark your calendars for his reading Friday, May 8, 5–7 p.m. at the Meeting House in Port Townsend.
Finally, in celebration of Empty Bowl’s fiftieth anniversary, we’ve started posting interviews about Empty Bowl’s early years with founder Michael Daley and early Empty Bowl authors Tim McNulty, Red Pine, William Ransom, Andrew Schelling, and Finn Wilcox. Our lasting thanks to Richard Meadows for conducting the interviews. You can read Richard’s introduction here and listen to the first interviews, with Michael Daley.
We hope you’ll enjoy the interviews—and we look forward to seeing you at one or more readings this spring. Please pass along the news to your friends, too.
As always, we’re grateful for your support and for being part of this community that helps keep Empty Bowl vital and thriving fifty years after its founding! We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you throughout the year.
Holly and John