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Co-presented with COPPER CANYON PRESS. We are delighted to host this reading by esteemed, award-winning University of Washington poet Heather McHugh. While it is a welcome return to Elliott Bay, there is some novelty at work this evening (new poems aside). She is here with a much-awaited new collection, yes, Upgraded to Serious. This is her first book with Copper Canyon Press. It's also her first reading hereabouts since receiving one of this year's prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowships—another reason to celebrate. "McHugh's eighth book finds this acclaimed poet as odd and entertaining as ever, with her trademark slippery associative lines and jagged stanzas, but also subtly sobered by growing older while living through the grim political climate of the last eight years. McHugh's short, jerky lines, odd rhymes, bemused gravity and slant perspective on the world bring Emily Dickinson to mind ... McHugh remains one of our most important and unusual poets in a world where YouTube makes every experience fodder for entertainment and a person 'cannot die again; and I / do nothing but re-live.'" - Publishers Weekly.
