PT library hosts Christine Hemp for online author talk

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The city of Port Townsend Public Library will host noted Port Townsend author and poet Christine Hemp for a special online author talk at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 29.

Hemp will discuss her latest book, “Wild Ride Home: Love, Loss, and a Little White Horse, a Family Memoir,” and the relationship and language between people and horses.

She is an author, poet, essayist and art critic. Hemp, who received her bachelor’s degree in humanities from Willamette University and a master’s in English from Middlebury College, is the recipient of a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature and teaches poetry and nonfiction at Hugo House in Seattle.

A poem of hers has traveled more than 1.5 billion miles on a NASA mission to monitor the birth of stars.

“Wild Ride,” a memoir that takes place on the Olympic Peninsula, received rave reviews from Booklist, Library Journal, and a slew of renowned authors, including Susan Richards (“Chosen by a Horse”), Erica Bauermeister (“The Scent Keeper”), and Marie Howe, New York State Poet Laureate (2012-2014) and author of “The Good Thief,” “What the Living Do,” and “Kingdom of Ordinary Time,” and “Magdalene.”

Visit the “Library Calendar” section of www.ptpubliclibrary.org to learn more and this and other upcoming library events, and to locate the presentation’s Zoom link.

Visit www.christinehemp.com to learn more about the author.