WVC poetry reading featuring Dennis Held on May 9

Poet Dennis Held will give a reading from 1-2 p.m. on Monday, May 9, in the Brown Library Lyceum room 9100 at Wenatchee Valley College. The poetry reading is free and open to the public.

Held’s second book of poetry, Ourself, was recently published by Gribble Press, and his essays have been published in Poets & Writers and The Bloomsbury Review. He lives in Spokane, where he teaches in Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit! Author’s Tour, an educational outreach program. Held is also co-owner of Area 58, a gallery and store.

This event is sponsored by the WVC English and Liberal Arts and Sciences departments.