William O’Daly & Derek Sheffield – Dwell Press Reading Series

Dwell Press Reading Series

Inaugural Reading

Sunday, April 30, 2023

2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

William O’Daly and Derek Sheffield

Salem Public Library

585 Liberty St SE, Salem, OR 97301

Anderson Room A

Free Admission

Donations Accepted

Please join us for the Dwell Press Reading Series Inaugural event. It has been a long time coming! There will be books and broadsides and merrymaking to celebrate these fine poets and our first event.

William O’Daly has translated eight books of the late-career and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda and most recently Neruda’s first volume, Book of Twilight, a finalist for the 2018 Northern California Book Award in Translation. The author of four chapbooks of poems, he published his first full-length volume of poems, The New Gods, with Beltway Editions in September 2022. Among other commendations and awards, he received the American Literary Award from the bilingual Korean American journal Miju Poetry and Poetics in September 2021. Currently, he is Lead Writer for the California Water Plan, the state’s strategic plan for sustainably and equitably managing water resources. 

Derek Sheffield’s collection, Not for Luck, was selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. His other books include Through the Second Skin, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. He teaches in Western Colorado University’s MFA program, edits poetry for Terrain.org, and can often be found in the forests and rivers along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range near Leavenworth, Washington. Catch up with him at www.dereksheffield.com