Spring newsletter—Empty Bowl Press
March 27, 2026
Dear friends of Empty Bowl,
Spring has been a long time coming, but what has helped sustain us through the rainy season is the support our community provides, whether that support comes from attending our readings, buying our books, or sending a note of thanks. In that spirit, here’s our latest news—upcoming events, a few new books, and more interviews and videos in celebration of Empty Bowl’s fiftieth year of operations.
For those of you in or near Port Townsend, please join us April 2, at 5:30 p.m., to launch Anna Odessa Linzer’s memoir Writing Home. We’ll gather at Imprint Bookshop, 820 Water Street. Our thanks to store owner John Blomgren for organizing and hosting this event.
As we write, Charles Goodrich’s Knot House: New and Selected Poems, is rolling off the presses! We’ll be celebrating the release of Knot House at PRAx on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, Oregon, where Charles lives, on April 23. Thanks to the Spring Creek Project for hosting. Charles will also be reading in Port Townsend at the Meeting House on Friday, May 8, along with Ed Harkness, author of Creek Water. See our events page for details.
In May, we’re publishing Peter Quinn’s a thread I didn’t know I was hanging by, a collection that celebrates the healing power of love and what it means to be a son, father, husband, and friend. Peter is reading with Kelli Russell Agodon on May 21 as part of the Readings at the Meeting House series. More details to come. In April, a thread I didn’t know I was hanging by will be available for ordering.
In other notes, we’re happy to pass along the good news that Cune Press in Seattle will be publishing The Sisters of Saida Manoubia, a novel by Sibyl James, author of Plum Blossom Wine, in late June. On Terrain.org, you can find an excerpt from Kurt Hoelting’s popular and moving collection of essays Apprentice to the Wild. You can find a review by Mary Ellen Talley of My Heart Is Good: Treaty Rights and the Rise of a S’Klallam Fishing Community in Raven Chronicles.
Ann Spiers, author of Wild Cucumber, is reading at Pelican Bay Books in Anacortes on Saturday, March 28, and at Poets at the Postmark at the Postmark Center for the Arts in Auburn, WA, on Wednesday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m.
And be sure to listen to the latest in our series of fiftieth-anniversary interviews with the founders and early contributors to Empty Bowl. We’ve added an interview with Tim McNulty and links to videos featuring Tim and Michael Daley reading their poems. We’ll be posting more interviews in the coming weeks.
As you can see, the empty bowl is quite full these days as our new books go out and are welcomed by our community.
With thanks,
Holly and John