Priscilla Bernard Wieden in conversation with Kim Stafford
The Literary Arts Bookstore and Cafe is excited to welcome Literary Arts board member Priscilla Bernard Wieden for a special reading from her poetry collection, Solitary Light. Priscilla will be in conversation with Oregon’s former poet laureate, Kim Stafford.
About the book:
Poetry is a conduit for communicating our shared experiences and broadening our understanding of ourselves and each other. In her debut book of poetry, Solitary Light, Priscilla Bernard Wieden shares her journey when the unspeakable happens, and then offers every grieving widow a glimmer of light. These poems are a beacon to help you find your way out of the despair of grief, to help you look deep inside your own spirit, and emerge with a heart full of loving memories as you find the beauty in joyful living that still awaits you.
Priscilla Bernard Wieden
Priscilla Bernard Wieden is a life-long poet and advocate for the arts, education and the environment. She is celebrated for her active engagement in Portland’s vibrant artistic community and contributions to Caldera, an award-winning year-round program for underserved youth, dedicated to nurturing creative and environmental education.
Priscilla is a proud mother, grandmother, and gardener. She stays engaged with the world by supporting issues of social justice, the arts, women and children, housing and the environment. Solitary Light, Mourning Poems is her debut book of poems.
Kim Stafford
Kim Stafford is Emeritus Professor at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. He writes, teaches, and travels to raise the human spirit through poetry. In 1986, he founded the Northwest Writing Institute, and he has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. His most recent book is the poetry collection As the Sky Begins to Change (Red Hen Press, 2024). He has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. In 2018 he was named Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate for a two-year term.
