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![2025 William Stafford Celebration](https://i0.wp.com/confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Facebook.jpg?fit=180%2C94&ssl=1)
Come out for our annual William Stafford birthday poetry reading! Members of the Confluence Poets will read poems by Stafford along with their own poems in response to his. We’ll also be joined by local student poets… and you!
![Merry & Bright](https://i0.wp.com/confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/FB.jpg?fit=180%2C94&ssl=1)
Join us for an afternoon of poetry written by our local Confluence poets. In this reading, our poets will bring lightness and cheer to the holiday season. Come on in for a ho-ho-ho or two!
![Kevin Murphy Workshop](https://confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Workshop-FB-Event.jpg)
Write what you don’t know! In this workshop, we’ll explore the ways poetry can provide access to the unconscious, the dream world, the irrational, and the taboo. We’ll experiment with forms and exercises to spark the imagination and open the door to mystery and surprise.
![10th Anniversary Reading](https://confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Reading-FB-Event.jpg)
Join us as we celebrate 10 years, where words and rivers meet! Confluence Poets welcome guest reader Kevin Murphy, Chuckanut Radio Hour’s Poet in Residence. Enjoy Kevin’s witty approach to words, presentations from our own Confluence Poets, and complementary cake and bubbly!
![Fresh Water Poetry](https://i0.wp.com/confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/August-Poetry.jpg?fit=180%2C116&ssl=1)
Join us for an afternoon of poetry written by our local Confluence poets. The poems are inspired by works in The Confluence’s current main gallery show, “Water,” as well as the waters around us and how we interact with them. Cool off and slow down as the poets whisk you away and refresh your
soul.
![National Poetry Month Reading](https://i0.wp.com/confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/432651027_985800826270188_1855227674224722084_n.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
Come out for our annual National Poetry Month reading! Members of the Confluence Poets and special guests will share poems against the back drop of the Dark Skies exhibit at The Confluence.
![2024 William Stafford Celebration](https://i0.wp.com/confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/418524160_942798057237132_5634111252878408209_n.jpg?fit=116%2C150&ssl=1)
Come out for our annual William Stafford birthday poetry reading! Members of the Confluence Poets will read poems by Stafford along with their own poems in response to his. We’ll be joined by students from Paschal Sherman and Liberty Bell High Schools.
![“Awareness,” September 23](https://i0.wp.com/confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Publication9.jpg?fit=178%2C150&ssl=1)
Join Confluence Poets and special guests in a reading of poetry selected in connection with various national and international days, weeks, and months of health and cultural awareness issues.
![“Poetry in the Park,” June 14](https://i0.wp.com/confluencepoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Publication31.jpg?fit=180%2C94&ssl=1)
Join the Methow’s Confluence Poets as they present works inspired by the terrain, landscape, library building and amazing surroundings of the Methow Valley. Rotate through the poetry stations situated throughout the Outdoor Library. 5:00 to 6:30 PM