Cirque Press Book Readings

Join us for a special evening with Cirque Press authors Kristin Berger (“Echolocation”), Kerry Feldman (“Rules of Thumbs Along the Amazons”) and Karen Tschannen (“Apportioning the Light”) as they read from their books – and celebrate Cirque Journal’s release of their newest issue!

Kristin Berger is the author of the poetry collections Refugia (Persian Pony Press, 2019), Echolocation (Cirque Press, 2018), How Light Reaches Us (Aldrich Press, 2016), and For the Willing (Finishing Line Press, 2008). She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she co-hosts the Lents Farmers Market Poetry Series, which has brought over 40 local emerging and established poets to the neighborhood. More at kristinberger.me

Kerry Feldman’s collection of short stories, “Rules Of Thumb Among the Amazons” will be published by Cirque Press, 2019. His stories explore twists of love–humorous, painful, fulfilling, sometimes shocking riffs on the Greek template of erotic passion, Eros and Psyche. He is Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage.

As a young transplant from San Francisco in ‘61, Karen Tschannen arrived in Anchorage, Alaska as an avid reader of formal British and North American poetry. She first tried her hand at contemporary verse when taking classes with Tom Sexton at the University of Alaska and working with Joanne Townsend, both since Alaskan Poet Laureates. Her poetry has been impacted by other poets of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Her words have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ice-Floe, PNW Poets and Artists Calendar(s), North of Eden (Loose Affiliation Press), The Sky’s Own Light (Minotaur Press), Crosscurrents North, Cirque, and other publications. Tschannen was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. Her one and only book, Apportioning the Light, was released in 2018. She still lives in Anchorage but now insists she has “no more words” She buys and reads the words of many other amazing younger poets—and finds much to admire.