The Studio Series: Poetry Reading and Open Mic will feature poets from THE WIDOWS' HANDBOOK: Ann Sinclair, Kristine Shorey Forbes, M, Nancy Womack and Natasha Saj� on June 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. 

In celebration of the Series' fourth anniversary, there will be light refreshments and a complimentary broadside. Free and open to the public, the Studio Series is held monthly on second Sundays. For additional information, please contact Leah Stenson at [email protected]

About the poets:

ANN SINCLAIR

is a poet and clinical social worker who lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Verseweavers and The Oregonian.

KRISTINE SHOREY

spent 15 years working in brand management and strategy for large corporations. In 1998 she left the corporate world and turned to writing. She found that through writing she finally was able to begin processing her experience of having been widowed before the age of 30. She lives in Seattle. You can find her author's page on Facebook.

M

is a poetry editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection, an administrator of an online poetry critique forum, and co-chair of the Oregon Poetry Association's Portland Unit. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, To That Mythic Country Called Closure.

NANCY WOMACK

is a retired community college educator, holds a Ph.D. in modern British literature from the University of South Carolina. In 2005 she lost her husband of 42 years to cancer. Writing about his illness and death helped her to regain her own sense of identity in a dramatically different environment.

NATASHA SAJ�

is the author of three books of poems, Red Under the Skin, Bend, and Vivarium, plus many essays. She is a professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and has been teaching in the Vermont College M.F.A. in Writing program since 1996.