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Poetic Feast

with Katrina Roberts

A food-loving poetry workshop, part of the Inland Northwest Poetry Salon.

Poets have celebrated what nurtures and sustains, torments and calms, transports us to childhood haunts or homelands, sends us lustily swooning, or groaning to hold our bellies. Food draws us; we sit with friends (or ghosts) around tables into wee hours. We stand stabbing takeout bean sprouts with only our reflections for company. We trek continents for sought-after ingredients, seek solace in familiar homey dishes. We prize kitchen implements, a smooth spoon great-grandfather hoisted brimming with purple borscht made from gems he dug from dirt. Food may trigger fears and disgust, too, our most gut insecurities – personal, societal, cultural. Together, we’ll feast on verse rich with rituals, and repulsions; associations, and affinities. A mouth might be mode to learn the world not only for babies and dogs, but for poets. We’ll drink with hungry eyes, and fill ears with sounds as we savor poems infused with such fodder; and in journals, we’ll whip up our own tidbits.

This event is part of the annual Inland Northwest Poetry Salon.

About the presenter: Katrina Roberts is author of several books, including LIKENESS (visual poems); Underdog; Friendly Fire; The Quick; and How Late Desire Looks; as well as the chapbook LACE; she’s editor of Because You Asked. Her work appears in journals such as BOMB, The Ilanot Review, Cleaver; Brink, Poetry Northwest, Brooklyn Review, Thrush, Interim; Iterant; The Indianapolis Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and Permafrost, and in anthologies such as: CASCADIA, A Field Guide Through Art, Ecology, & Poetry; WE ARE ALL GOD’S POEMS; Lilac City Fairy Tales Vol IV; Evergreen: Fairy Tales, Essays, and Fables from the Dark Northwest. She curates the Visiting Writers Reading Series and teaches at Whitman College. 

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