WA Poet Laureate - Tod Marshall

Washington State's Poet Laureate, Tod Marshall, will visit Pomeroy and share poems and thoughts on poetry after the noon meal at the Pomeroy Senior Center on Monday, Oct. 30th. He has been traveling around Washington building awareness and appreciation of poetry -- including the state's legacy of poetry -- through public readings, workshops, lectures and presentations in geographically diverse areas of the state.

Marshall, a poet and professor at Gonzaga University, is the author most recently of "Bugle" (2014), which won the Washington State Book Award in 2015. He is also the author of two previous collections, "Dare Say" (2002) and "The Tangled Line" (2009), and a collection of interviews with contemporary poets, "Range of the Possible" (2002).

Marshall was appointed as the fourth Washington poet laureate by Gov. Jay Inslee, and his term runs from Feb. 1, 2016, to Jan. 31, 2018.