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Thank you!
We shared a lovely afternoon of inspiration and community on Sunday, October 15, 2023 at this year’s Writers & Wine event. It was highlighted by a reading by John Daniel, wine from Sarver Winery, tasty appetizers from Our Daily Bread, and raffle prize drawings.

We hope you will join us next year!

Fern Ridge Library
88026 Territorial Hwy
Veneta OR 97487

Featuring

Oregon poet and author John Daniel and wine from Sarver Winery

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Writers & Wine is a special event for all who love books and want to support the library.

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About John Daniel

John Daniel

From Broadstone Books, John Daniel’s Lighted Distances: Four Seasons on Goodlow Rim is his most recent book of poetry. Composed in spare tercets, these poems are pure distillations of experience, most often reflecting on nature and our place in it. He lives on a rampant acre of Douglas firs and vicious blackberry thickets in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, and spends time every year over the Cascades on the dry side of the state, where this book found voice.

Daniel worked as a logger, railroader, rockclimbing instructor, and breakfast cook before turning to writing. Author of eleven books and a three-time winner of the Oregon Book Award, he has taught creative writing—poetry and prose—at Stanford, Ohio State, Saint Mary’s College of California, Sweet Briar College, and St. Lawrence University, along with brief stints elsewhere.

John Daniel’s poetry graces the walls inside the Fern Ridge Library as it has for over 20 years. He was the inaugural Writers & Wine speaker, along with Evelyn Hess, in 2012. He returned in 2017, with Garth Stein, after the release of his first novel, Gifted. We are delighted to welcome him back!

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About Lighted Distances: Four Seasons on Goodlow Rim by John Daniel, Broadstone Books, 2023.

“Dryside/I look out and far.” That brief phrase near the start of John Daniel’s new hybrid work of meditative poetry with interspersed prose orients the reader to his setting and his program, for in Lighted Distances: Four Seasons on Goodlow Rim his vision indeed ranges far beyond his southcentral Oregon locus over an expanse of both landscape and thought.

Composed in spare tercets, these poems are pure distillations of experience, most often reflecting on nature and our place in it, a fragile environment made all the more tenuous as Daniel’s documents his own encounter with mortality.

Presented by the Fern Ridge Library Foundation, Writers & Wine has been held since 2012. Learn more about the Writers & Wine series here.

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