Garden Series: An Afternoon of Poetry with Joni Renee
Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett St, PortlandPlease join us at the Lan Su Chinese Garden for a poetry reading and Q&A with local poet Joni Renee Whitworth. Joni will read selections from her upcoming collection, Party Time, and from her first book, Your Full Real Name. Lush accounts of intimate meals, queer pastoral youth, neurodivergence, loss, and more come together in her debut collection of poetry that honors nature, family, and the body. Vulnerable and perceptive, Renee's poetry takes readers through vivid dreams and memories of an Oregon childhood. Your Full Real Name is a frank and compelling collection. About the author: Joni Renee Whitworth is an artist and writer from rural Oregon. She has performed at The Moth, the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts in Costa Mesa, California, the…