donna henderson

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets Donna Henderson and Charles Goodrich to read from their new collections. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. About Send Word: To be born is to 'cleave,' in the double sense of the word (to 'split from' and to 'cling to'): it is that first splitting which generates the urge to return, to bind. The poems in Donna Henderson's Send Word explore varieties of cleaving and their tensions, as the speaker navigates these across a lifetime: tensions between our feral and civil selves, between compliance and transgression, between connection and individuation, between containment and surrender, and between what the worlds…