Salem Poetry Project Featuring Lex Runciman and Jeff Fearnside

Lex Runciman’s eighth collection, Light in the Evergreens, was published in September by Cornerstone Press. An Oregon Book Award winner, he’s now retired from teaching and lives in Portland. You can find more information about him at www.lexruncimanpoems.com

Jeff Fearnside is the author of four books of prose and poetry, most recently Lake: Love Poems (Cornerstone Press, 2026). His work has appeared widely in journals such as The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review, Story, The Pinch, and The Sun. He teaches in the Honors College at Oregon State University and the MFA Program in Writing at OSU–Cascades.

The Salem Poetry Project continues at the Bush Barn Annex, 600 Mission St SE, Salem. Parking for the Bush Barn and Bush House is located off of High Street and the Annex entrance is just to the left of the main entrance. Each week will present a featured reader followed by the Infamous Open Mic: 3 poems or five minutes whichever is first. Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. For more information contact Marc Janssen at [email protected].