Poetry

We are pleased to welcome Christopher Howell and Carlos Reyes reading from their new collections of poems. In Christopher Howell's twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. The Grief of a Happy Life explores the interplay between memory and imagination, celebrating the ways that happiness and grief inform one another and give our lives fullness and vitality. Arranged in four sections, Howell's poems feature not only these concerns, but a large and various cast of characters. Woven together with Howell's trademark precision and accessibility into exquisite tableaux, each provides a view of we must live with and what we must not live without. Born in Portland, Christopher Howell is the author of a dozen poetry collections, including…