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New poetry and prose from innovative Northwest creators Third Place Books welcomes writers Caleb True, Rivka Clifton, Kara Briggs, and Rats Alice Trujillo to our Ravenna store to celebrate their latest works!
RAÑA by Caleb True spirals outward from the blood, sweat, and heat of the boxing ring, following an Argentinean fighter who relitigates a painful past through his matches.
Wrong Feast by Rivka Clifton flexes the tensions between Capitalism's mass-produced nightmares and the individually strange experiences of death, art, and queerness to depict a world both sumptuous and awry.
In You and I, and Spilyáy, Kara Briggs brings clear-eyed tenderness and moral urgency to poems shaped by Native history, inheritance, love, loss, and renewal.
Desolate and lyrical, Vermin by Rats Alice Trujillo is a tale of pain and discovery within the slow decay of the American city.
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book! Please note: copies of Vermin are not available on our website but will be available for purchase at the event.
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Caleb True is a writer, editor, critic, musician, athlete, and podcaster. He holds an MA in history from the University of Massachusetts and an MFA in creative writing from Old Dominion University. He is the author of the critical essay On Ruben Slikk: A Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression (Dynamo Verlag 2024) and Chansons Russes (Quetzalcoatl 2016; Dynamo Verlag 2023), a historical triptych of stories set in Soviet Russia. He has published short stories and essays in Ploughshares, The Sonora Review, Faultline, Yemassee, Whiskey Island, and many others. He is the founder and managing editor of Dynamo Verlag (est. 2015), a boutique publishing house specializing in textual work demonstrating genius, eclecticism, and originality.
Rivka Clifton is the transfemme author of Muzzle (JackLeg Press, 2025) as well as the chapbooks MOT and Agape (Osmanthus Press). Clifton's work has appeared in Pleiades, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, and other magazines. She lives in Seattle.
Kara Briggs announces her awaited second book of her poetry, You and I, and Spilyáy from Saint Julian Press. Her previous book, Rivers in My Veins, also published by Saint Julian, came out in 2024, the same year she won the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry and graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Citizen and direct Yakama descendant. She lives on the Tulalip Reservation, where she is an emerging forest farmer. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including Unsinkable: Poems Inspired by the Titanic (Salmon Press), Ms. Aligned 5 (El León Literary Arts, Berkeley and Manoa Books, Honolulu), and Reclaiming the Cascades: A Native Anthology (Hawkeye Press in 2025). She also participated in the pop-up display Poetry Along the Columbia River Gorge in April 2026.
Rats Alice Trujillo (her / it) lives in Seattle and writes. She makes lots of zines and has published five books, including two poetry collections (Insurrectionary Auto-Vivisection, Body Apocalypse Manifesto), two novellas (Check Engine Light, Vermin), and one hybrid collection (Two People Going to the Bottom of a River). She helps to edit and assemble a literary / arts compilation zine called INFERNO. Rats Alice is a member of the Left Bank Books Collective, and most of her writing and arts are available through their store or website.
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