Thursday, February 19
7:00 PM
Join us for an evening of poetry with 4 Portland-based poets -- Genevieve DeGuzman, Eric Larsh, Judy Nahum, and Breen Nolan -- plus visiting poet Clayton Adam Clark. They will each share poems from their recent collections and then circle up to talk creative processes, inspirations, their love of poetry, etc. and whatever else the audience wants to hear about.
Clayton Adam Clark lives in Saint Louis, his hometown, where he works as a mental health counselor in private practice alongside his wife, Tina, and their therapy dog, Tank. His latest poetry collection, Auscultate, was published by Galileo Press in 2025, and his debut poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin, won the 2017 Moon City Poetry Award (Moon City Press, 2018). He is especially grateful for an Artist Support Grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, which is supporting his travel for this reading.
Genevieve DeGuzman is a poet and essayist based in Portland. She has received the Oregon Literary Fellowship and StoryBoard Fellowship, as well as support from Vermont Studio Center, Poets & Writers, Oregon Arts Commission, and the Regional Arts & Culture Council. An Alice James Award finalist and Tin House alum, Genevieve has work in The Adroit, Poetry Northwest, phoebe, RHINO, and other publications. Her first collection Karaoke at the End of the World is forthcoming March 2026 from JackLeg Press.
Eric Larsh is a writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Desert (2024, Cathexis Northwest Press). His writing can also be found at Los Angeles Review, Thin Air Online, and elsewhere. Eric received his MFA from Portland State University. He also hosts MAKE SPACE RADIO, a biweekly independent radio show at Freeform Portland.
Judy Nahum (she/her) lives and writes in Portland, OR. An alum of Tin House and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Judy has work in Pile Press, Muleskinner Journal, and Yes, Poetry, among others. Her first poetry chapbook, i have wrestled with the way clouds weep, was published in 2024 by Querencia Press.
Breen Nolan is a writer from Rochester, New York. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert, where she received the 2023 Founder’s Award and was the inaugural recipient of the Lizi Gilad Silver Memorial Scholarship. She previously served as Managing Editor of The Coachella Review. Her poetry chapbook is forthcoming from Cooper Dillon Books in spring 2026. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.