Linda Henry and Dorothy Trogdon Read from New Poetry Publications

Island poets Linda Henry and Dorothy Trogdon will read from their new publications at Darvill’s Bookstore on Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m.

Linda’s chapbook of new and collected poems titled May-fly will be available for purchase soon. Dorothy’s collected poems, Tall Woman Looking, have recently been published by Blue Begonia Press.

Linda Henry’s next volume of poetry will be a hand-printed chap book, a collection of poems that she has written over the past decade. The book is being printed by Stern and Faye in Sedro Woolley.  Henry says, “We wanted Jules Faye to print it as she has been a friend for years.” Henry’s editor is Kathleen Flenniken, who is the new poet laureate of Washington.

The two women, who are in a poetry group together, decided to both at Darvill’s on April 24, even though Henry’s book is not yet printed.  She expects it to be available this summer or early fall.

Dorothy Trogdon will read with Linda Henry, on Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at Darvill's Boostroe

Blue Begonia Press says, “Dorothy Trogdon has been writing for most of her 85 years, but rarely shown her work to anyone except her closest friends. For the most part she kept them, as she says, ‘hidden away in a locked drawer.’ Several years ago …. she sent several poems to Floating Bridge Review where her work caught the eye of the editor  Flenniken.

“Trogdon’s poetry, as the title suggests, is visionary and visual. She has distilled her decades of looking–at art, at the sea, at her gender, and at herself– into a kind of light that can only be described as painterly. The poems are in turns lush and minimalist. They practice for the next world, rehearsing the leaving that visits us all, yet they cling to the childhood in Maine, to the waves of her youth and to the flora of the island she now calls home.”