Sometimes you have to tell a story
your entire life to get it right.
Sometimes you have to tell a story
your entire life to get it right.
Poet Emily Ransdell writes poems of celebration and of grief, the extraordinary moments of ordinary life viewed through the twin lenses of loss and long love.
Emily Ransdell, poet and author
An exquisite debut volume of poems.”
—Andrea Hollander, author of Blue Mistaken for Sky
In her debut collection, Emily Ransdell explores loss and long love against a backdrop of the collective heartaches of our time. Emily’s home is the Pacific Northwest — its beauty and fragility both loom large, even in poems that confront illness and the deaths of loved ones, pandemic isolation. One Finch Singing reminds us that deep sorrow is born from deep love through poems that look back in grief and forward in hope. Learn more…
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Meet the Poet
Emily Ransdell’s poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, Tar River Poetry, Terrain, River Styx, CALYX, American Life in Poetry, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize and the New Millennium Writing Award, and was runner-up for the Prime Number Poetry Prize from Press 53 as well as the New Letters Poetry Prize. She divides her time between Camas, Washington and Manzanita, Oregon, where she has taught poetry classes at the Hoffman Center for the Arts. Learn more…
Featured Events
The second Sunday of each month
a monthly drop-in session with prompts
Open Write
a monthly drop-in session with prompts
2:00-4:00pm
Hoffman Center for the Arts
594 Laneda Ave., Manzanita OR
October 15th – November 19th
Poetry Class
Read, Write, Repeat an online poetry class for poets
Wednesdays 5:30 – 7:00am (PST)
taught by Emily Ransdell
https://hoffmanarts.org