Airlie Press Poetry Event
April 13 | 4:00-5:30pm
Event is free and open to the public
Registration Encouraged, Walk-ins Welcome
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Airlie Press poets Daneen Bergland and Irene Cooper will read from their new works.
Winners of the 2025 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize will read their winning poems to open this annual event celebrating poetry.
This event is free and open to the public. We encourage advance registration. Walk-ins are welcome as space allows.
Daneen Bergland grew up in the Midwest but long ago found her way home to the Pacific Northwest. She is a former recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts fellowship, a professor at Portland State University, a co-editor of the poetry collective Airlie Press, and author of The Goodbye Kit, whose poems examine our relationships to each other and with the more than human world and share in common a sense of lament and wonder for the mutability of life.
Irene Cooper grew up in Rockaway Beach, New York, before making her way through Rio de Janeiro, Texas, Nevada, and California (with a brief detour in Omaha, Nebraska) to Central Oregon, her home since 1996. She is a poet/editor for Airlie Press, and author of the collection even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety. Additional publications include two novels—the feminist thriller, Found, winner of the North Street Prize; and Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy about family. Her first collection of poems, spare change, was an Oregon Book Awards finalist for the Stafford/Hall award. Irene teaches for the MFA program at OSU-Cascades, for Central Oregon Community College, and in community. She lives with her people and Roxy in Bend.
Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher run by writers, dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry and to promoting poets from the Pacific Northwest—and beyond.
April 13–Airlie Press poets Daneen Bergland and Irene Cooper will read from their new works.
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Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.
