(Airdate: July 28, 2026) Booklovers Café host Cris Wilson welcomes Patricia Henley to the program. Patricia is an author, poet, playwright, and teacher. She is best known for her novel Hummingbird House, which was a National Book Award finalist. Today Cris is going to talk to Patricia about her new collection of stories, titled Apple and Palm. This is a strong collection of stories, reminiscent of Olive Kitteridge, with an emphasis on character and setting. Port Townsend listeners will fall in love with the artistic characters of the Tansy co-op.

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(Airdate: July 1, 2026) Host Cris Wilson welcomes Rufina C. Garay to Booklovers’ Cafe. Rufina is the City of Port Townsend poet laureate for 2026 and 2027. She is a spoken word poet, food writer, and visual artist who works in multimedia. She is also a culinary artist and practitioner of Taoist meditative arts in which poetry is a healing practice and often incorporates both into the poetry events she creates. Her current projects include a chapbook with a Salish Sea perspective on the Uvalde
mass shooting, poems collected in a “Ministry of Rage” chapbook as a form of self-care and social justice, and a “Meditations on Love” chapbook. Rufina is the founder of “Shattering Glass,” an ever-evolving curation of established and emergent poets from the Olympic Peninsula who amplify social and environmental justice issues.

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(Airdate: June 16, 2026) Cris welcomes poet and editor Susan Rich to talk about Bird Brains, her delightful and lyrical look at the birds of the Pacific Northwest. Each bird has not only scientific notes but an original poem and lovely evocative Japanese brush style illustration. Some of the poets are from Port Townsend!

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