Name: Taylor Strickland w/ Bill Hulseman, DWELL TIME
Start: 2026-07-02T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-02T20:00:00-07:00
Location: The Elliott Bay Book Company

$Taylor Strickland w\/ Bill Hulseman, DWELL TIME$

poems that advocate for a world against isolation, one in which we go beyond our own witness to embrace another’s, and shrink the distance
About this Event

Writer and translator Taylor Strickland visits the store for his debut poetry collection Dwell Time. He’ll be joined Bill Hulseman, writer, teacher, and wedding officiant.

Dwell Time, the full-length debut collection from award-winning poet Taylor Strickland, begins from the idea that ‘dwelling’ requires both place and the experience of ‘being-in-the-world’. In taking us from the US to Scotland to Portugal, Strickland interrogates this central notion, along with ideas of non-place and environment, to explore our contemporary experience of love, language, technology, and spirituality. Ultimately these are poems that advocate for a world against isolation, one in which we go beyond our own witness to embrace another’s, and shrink the distance between us.

Taylor Strickland is from Tallahassee, Florida. His latest book is Dwell Time (Tapsalteerie, 2025). His new book Dares Paradise (Princeton University Press, 2026) is forthcoming this autumn. His first Dastram/Delirium (Broken Sleep Books, 2023) was Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and PBS recommended. His work has appeared in Poetry London, Poetry Northwest, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. He lives in Aberfeldy, Scotland.

Bill Hulseman is a Virgo sun, Aries moon, rising Capricorn, a dragon, an INFJ, a 1w9, and a youngest child. He’s an autumn, and his favorite color is blue. Previously a teacher, campus minister, program director, and middle school principal in independent schools, he holds a BA in religious studies from Fairfield University, an MTS in the comparative study of religion from Harvard Divinity School, and an EdM in education leadership from the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is now a ritual designer, wedding officiant, and author of six to carry the casket and one to say the mass: reflections on life, identity, and moving forward, his first book. He lives in Seattle with his husband, Jonathon.