Join us for a reading with Emily Van Kley

Read your poetry, short prose, or fiction for a suggested 5-minute time limit. Limited reading slots available. Show up early to sign up.

Emily Van Kley is a queer poet and circus artist based in Olympia. Her poetry collections are The Cold and the Rust (2018), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, and Arrhythmia (2022), both from Persea Books. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry and Best New Poets, and has received the Loraine Williams Prize for Poetry, the Iowa Review Award, and the Florida Review Editor’s Award among other honors. When not writing, Emily can often be found teaching or performing aerial acrobatics as a member of Airbound Underground.

Free/Public