An Elizabeth Bradfield Reading and Book Signing!

Central Washington University is proud to welcome poet, editor, and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield on Tuesday, April 21, for the second installment of the 2026 Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series. Members of the CWU and local communities are invited to the Multicultural Center on the first floor of Black Hall (room 107), where Bradfield will be presenting two free events: a craft talk, Q&A, and book signing at noon, and a reading, Q&A, and book signing at 5:30 p.m. Online attendance for both events will be offered on Zoom. If you would like to participate in the April 21 events online, please pre-register. Bradfield will be reading from her recent works: SOFAR: Poems; Interpretive Work, winner of the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry; and the Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award, among other honors. Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the James E. Brooks Library, students attending each of the events in person will have the chance to win one of five copies of Bradfield’s co-edited book, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. Elizabeth Bradfield Reading 5:30 PM PST https://cwu.zoom.us/j/99960029653