1200 11th St Bellingham
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.
