Friday, May 22nd • 7:30-9:00 pm

Join us in celebrating the launch of Kurtis Ebeling’s new chapbook Private Silences. Enjoy readings from Laura Read as well as the author himself.

Private Silences as a collection is invested in the archiving of moments, often small or ordinary. Spare and imagistic in nature, these poems catalogue instances as unextraordinary as watching a partner fold laundry or noticing birds through an open window. They are deeply interested in the nature of memory, the way light moves through and shapes spaces, and the capacity of poetic imagery for creating (and recreating) experience and feeling, both in the moment and in remembering. 

What binds the poems in Private Silences is not an attempt to explore any specific concept or to test the limits of any formal structure or element, but the desire to capture a specific kind of feeling. These poems are, as the title suggests, quiet and reflective, and the moments they archive are ones of close attention to the world and the people or things that live in it. As a result, Private Silences is more than anything a book about noticing, remembering, and the particularity or significance of everyday experiences.

Kurtis Ebeling is a writer and educator living in Spokane, Washington. He’s an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English graduate from EWU, a founding coeditor for Croak Literary Magazine—a themed lit mag that publishes frog inspired works—and a musician. His poetry has been published with a number of journals, including Crab Creek Review, Art of Nothing Press, Pictura Journal, The Dewdrop, and Wild Roof Journal.