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Poet Margaret Chula reads
at the Astoria Library
Poetry reading by Margaret
Chula
ASTORIA — Maggie Ch-
ula, a celebrated poet and
world traveler, will visit the
Astoria Library (450 10th
St.) this week to read from
her upcoming collection,
“Daffodils at Twilight,”
in celebration of National
Poetry Month.
The author reading,
presented by the library
and Ric’s Poetry Mic, takes
place 6 p.m. Friday, April
29. The event is free and
open to the public.
Chula will take the audi-
ence “on a poetic journey to
Kyoto temples, a Japanese
tea ceremony, Emily Dick-
inson’s grave, a racetrack
in Vermont, the high desert,
and her childhood home,”
according to the library.
She will also read “per-
sona poems” in the voices of
Japanese Americans in in-
ternment camps, and poems
she composed while listening
to chamber music concerts.
Chula will discuss her
path from thirty-five years of
writing in the spare forms of
haiku, tanka and haibun to
publishing her first collection
of lyrical poetry.
The author of eight col-
lection of poetry, Chula has
been awarded fellowships to
the Vermont Studio Center,
the Helene Wurlitzer Founda-
tion and Playa. Grants from
the Oregon Arts Commis-
sion and the Regional Arts
and Culture Council have
supported her collaborations
with artists, musicians, pho-
tographers and dancers.
In addition, Chula has
also served as president of
the Tanka Society of America
and as Poet Laureate for
Friends of Chamber Music,
composing poems while
listening to concerts. After
living in Kyoto for twelve
years, she now makes her
home in Portland.
Ric’s Poetry Mic is a
poetry open mic held 7 to
8:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of
each month at WineKraft in
Astoria.
For more information
about library programs and
services, contact staff at 503-
325-7323 or comments@
astorialibrary, or visit www.
astorialibrary.org.
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