Author Event: Friday, March 21st, 7:30pm at HCA
On Friday, March 21st, at 7:30 pm Didi Jackson will present work from her newest collection, “My Infinity” (Red Hen Press, 2024), in which she continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist. Books will be available for sale and signature at the event and through our local bookseller, Cloud & Leaf Bookstore.
Tickets are $20. Registration is highly recommended; walk-ins welcome as space allows.
Poetry Writing Workshop: Saturday, March 22nd & Sunday, March 23rd 10:00am-1:00pm
On Saturday and Sunday, March 22nd-23rd, 2025, Didi Jackson will offer a generative poetry writing workshop, open to writers of all levels of experience.
The workshop will be held at the Hoffman Center for the Arts on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am-1:00pm.
Tuition is $250. Scholarships are available for this workshop.
Book Signing: Saturday, March 22nd, from 5:00-7:00 pm at Cloud & Leaf Bookstore
On Saturday, March 22nd, Didi Jackson will sign copies of her two collections, “My Infinity” and “Moon Jar” at Cloud & Leaf Bookstore, located at 447 Laneda Avenue, Manzanita, OR 97130.
Free and open to the public
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Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections, “My Infinity” (2024) and “Moon Jar” (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and Oxford American among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she teaches creative writing. Most recently she completed her certification as a Tennessee Naturalist.
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To register for the author event or the writing workshop with Didi Jackson, please visit www.hoffmanarts.org
Please direct any questions about these events to writing@hoffmanarts.org
