Tana Jean Welch will read from her second collections of poems, In Parachutes Descending, recently published with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Local Bellingham poet and fellow Pitt press-mate, Ryler Dustin, will open with a few poems from his book, Trailer Park Psalms.
In Parachutes Descending follows the speaker’s decision to leave her Bostonian husband for Jane, a San Franciscan artist, while charting the sensual consequences of our bodily entanglements. These poems capture personal desires fermenting among current earthly cataclysms, including climate change and global capitalism. In doing so, this collection asks us to think inclusively about the ways we become with all humans and nonhumans, all of us—past, present, and future—intimately entwined with others.
