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Mark Strohschein in Conversation with Jeffrey Morgan- Cries Across Borders @ Village Books in Fairhaven
Jun 29 @ 2:00 pm
Mark Strohschein in Conversation with Jeffrey Morgan- Cries Across Borders @ Village Books in Fairhaven

Join us and local author Jeffrey Morgan in the Readings Gallery to welcome Pushcart Prize-nominated poet Mark Strohschein in celebration of his new chapbook, Cries Across Borders!

Cries Across Borders, a telling chapbook about the vagaries of the immigration system, poignantly and deftly addresses how difficult and trying unification with a loved one can be. In intelligent poems of longing, perplexity and discovery, the poet deconstructs the metaphor of exile and asks why borders still separate us.

Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and educator Mark Strohschein resides on Whidbey Island. His poems have appeared in Cirque Journal, Flint Hills Review, Bryant Literary Review, Broad River Review, The Milk House and other journals and anthologies. His new chapbook, Cries Across Borders, was a semifinalist for Button Poetry’s 2023 chapbook contest.

Jeffrey Morgan is a two-time National Poetry Series Finalist and the author of Crying Shame (BlazeVOX [books]) and The Last Note Becomes Its Listener (Conduit Books & Ephemera), winner of the Mind’s on Fire Open Book Prize. He lives in Bellingham, WA.

Christina Baldwin- The Beekeeper’s Question @ Village Books in Fairhaven
Jun 29 @ 5:00 pm
Christina Baldwin- The Beekeeper's Question @ Village Books in Fairhaven

Join Christina Baldwin in the Readings Gallery to celebrate her debut historical novel, The Beekeeper’s Question!

World War II looms over of the Cooper family: a soldier son sends his pregnant bride to their Montana town; another son brings home his Blackfeet wife and reopens racial tensions. Their father, Leo, local preacher and beekeeper, endeavors to make the community as harmonious as bees. Doctor Jereldene Jesperson, keeps the valley together, curing bodies and tending souls. And Blackfeet grandmother, Josie Shines-the-Light, relies on Leo and his son to safeguard her granddaughter. A mysterious figure threatens the family and Maire, the war bride, must find the way to save her husband’s ravaged soul.

Christina Baldwin is a pioneer in personal writing and story with eight classic books in this field. For twenty-five years she taught circle facilitation across North America and around the world. The Beekeeper’s Question is her debut historical novel. Her website: www.christinabaldwin.com is dedicated to issues raised in her books.