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Co-presented with COPPER CANYON PRESS. Back in the mid-1980s, when we began presenting poets and writers here, one of the first willing to read here was poet Madeline DeFrees—who had then moved back to Seattle in retirement. These many years, she is still going strong—reading, writing, getting out and about. This evening, her 90th birthday, we celebrate the esteemed and much-loved author of eight collections of poems—most recently 2006's Spectral Waves (Copper Canyon). She will be honored with readings and tributes—poets Thomas Aslin and Susan Rich among them. And Madeline herself—in and around the cutting of cake—will show she is still very much at it, reading some of her own work. "Like Dickinson, like the saints whose lives were personal expressions of divine energy, DeFrees is acutely aware of her mortality, but what we experience above all here is a fierce celebration of life in all its difficulty." - Prairie Schooner.
