Terrain org Reading Featuring Charles Goodrich, Patricia Caspers, and Greg Wrenn

The May 20, 2024 Terrain.org online reading hosted by poet and editor Suzanne Frischkorn featured acclaimed writers Charles Goodrich, Patricia Caspers, and Greg Wrenn. After a long and fruitful career as a professional gardener, Charles Goodrich worked for more than a decade with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University. He is the author of four volumes of poetry and a collection of essays. His first novel, Weave Me a Crooked Basket, is just out from University of Nevada Press. He writes and gardens near the confluence of the Marys and Willamette Rivers in Corvallis, Oregon. Learn more at charlesgoodrich.com. Patricia Caspers is an award-winning columnist, journalist, and poet. Caspers’ work has been published widely, and in 2017 California Newspapers Association named her the best columnist and best education reporter in the state. Caspers won the Nimrod-Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize Poetry and has published three full-length collections: The Most Kissed Woman in the World (Kelsay Books, 2024), Some Flawed Magic (Kelsay Books, 2021) and In the Belly of the Albatross (Glass Lyre Press, 2015). She is the founding editor-in-chief of West Trestle Review and hosts the monthly literary reading series and open mic, Silver Tongue Saturdays in Auburn, California. Caspers graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California, with an MFA in creative writing. She is a Unitarian Universalist. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Greg Wrenn is the author of the queer ayahuasca eco-memoir Mothership and Centaur, which was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. As an associate English professor at James Madison University, he weaves climate change science into literary studies. A student of ayahuasca since 2019, he and his husband live in Virginia on the ancestral homelands of the Manahoac and Monacan people.

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