Join us for a reading with poets Karen Rigby, Brittney Corrigan, Genevieve DeGuzman, and Joan Naviyuk Kane

Karen Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press), which won a 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and Fabulosa (JackLeg Press), which was named as one of Ms. Magazine’s Best Poetry of ’23-’24 selections. A National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow, her poems have been published in The London Magazine, Australian Book Review, Poetry Northwest, and other journals. She lives in Arizona. 

Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Daughters, Breaking, Navigation, 40 Weeks and most recently, Solastalgia, a collection of poems about climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene Age (JackLeg Press, 2023). Brittney was raised in Colorado and has lived in Portland, Oregon for more than three decades, where she is an alumna and employee of Reed College. Her recent debut short story collection, The Ghost Town Collectives, won the 2023 Osprey Award for Fiction from Middle Creek Publishing.

Genevieve DeGuzman is the author of Karaoke at the End of the World (forthcoming March 2026, JackLeg Press). A 2022 Oregon Literary Fellow, she has been an Alice James Award finalist and earned Best New Poets nominations. Locally, she has been featured in the Poetry Moves project for C-TRAN and in Oregon Arts Watch. As a poet, Genevieve won the Atticus Review contest and was a finalist for the Michelle Boisseau Prize selected by Traci Brimhall and for the Black River competition by Black Lawrence Press. Born in the Philippines, she grew up near San Diego and lives in Northeast Portland.

Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq and the author and editor of many collections of poetry and prose, including Dark Traffic, Hyperboreal and Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. She has raised her children as a single mother in Alaska, Massachusetts, and Oregon, where she is an associate professor at Reed College.