Poetics of Care Reading with local poets, Sara Guest, Emily Kendal Frey and Daneen Bergland

Sara Guest is a longtime facilitator and former Write Around Portland staffer who has taught and facilitated writing and reading workshops with Literary Arts, Soapstone, PNCA and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative. She has lived in Portland since 2004 and is an avid reader, poet, editor, creative and community-builder who is a Senior Fellow with American Leadership Forum of Oregon, sits on the Write Around Portland board and Development Council for Literary Arts and works as Communications Advisor to Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson. 

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland. She is the author of the poetry collections THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE and SORROW ARROW (which won the Oregon Book Award). Her latest collection, LOVABILITY, is out from Fonograf Editions. She is a practicing psychotherapist.

Daneen Bergland grew up in the Midwest but long ago found her way home to the Pacific Northwest. She is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts fellowship, a co-editor of the poetry collective Airlie Press, and author of The Goodbye Kit, whose poems examine our relationships to each other and with the more than human world, and share in common a sense of lament and wonder for the mutability of life.