The Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Featuring Judith Barrington and Ingrid Wendt

 Judith Barrington has published five collections of poetry, most recently Long Love: New and Collected Poems (Salmon Press). Previous titles include The Conversation, History and Geography, Horses and the Human Soul, and Trying to be an Honest Woman. Her work also includes two chapbooks: Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea and Lost Lands (winner of the Robin Becker Chapbook Award).

Her Lifesaving: A Memoir won the 2000 Lambda Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Her most recent book is Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs (OSU Press, 2024)

Other awards include The Dulwich Festival International Poetry Prize, The Clackamas Review Poetry Award, The Andres Berger Award, and, with her partner, Ruth Gundle, The Stuart Holbrook Award “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.” Her best-selling text, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, is used by colleges and writing groups in the U.S., Germany, and Australia. She was a faculty member of the University of Alaska’s MFA Program and lives in Oregon.

Ingrid Wendt is the author of five full-length books of poems, the first of which, Moving the House, was chosen for BOA Editions by William Stafford, who wrote the introduction. Co-editor of the anthology In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts (Feminist Press) and of the Oregon Poetry Anthology, From Here We Speak (OSU Press). Ingrid has taught at all educational levels, including the Antioch Los Angeles MFA program and as a three-time Senior Fulbright professor in Germany. Honors include the Oregon Book Award, the Editions Prize, the Carolyn Kizer Award, four Pushcart nominations, and several features on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac.”

Recent poems appear in Poetry, About Place, Calyx, American Poetry Review, Terrain, Tikkun, and River Heron Review, where she was one of four finalists in the 2024 Editors Prize. Her most recent publication, “The Unassailable Heart,” received an honorable mention in the 2025 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize in Poetry.

Trained as a classical pianist and organist and married for 48 years to the late poet and writer Ralph Salisbury, Ingrid sings with the Eugene (Oregon) Concert Choir and volunteers as an exhibit interpreter at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. For more, see https://ingridwendt.com

 The Open Mic is open to all audience members. Participants can sign up before the start of the reading or during the break. In the interest of time, Open Mic readers are asked to limit their reading to three minutes.

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The Ross Island Grocery and Café is a cozy space with capacity for 40 or so people. Tables are available, so people who arrive early can enjoy a light supper (i.e., a sandwich, salad or burger) while waiting for the reading to begin. If we run out of table space, folding chairs are available. A mic will enhance the readings. There is plenty of unrestricted parking on the streets around the Café.