a poetry reading / book launch event

Melinda Burns & Enid Osborn

will read from their new collections

HOMECOMING  &  PEDREGOSA ST.

Saturday, January 17 at 1pm PST / 4pm EST

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7357060207

Melinda Burns is a status member of the Lower Mohawk First Nation. She is the daughter of a Mohawk mother and an English father. Her short stories, essays and poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Canadian Notes and Queries, Native Skin, and One Art. Her essay, Legacy, was a finalist in the 2023 Prism International Creative Non-fiction contest. Melinda lives in Guelph, Ontario. She writes to try to understand this life without destroying the mystery; to excavate, untangle, set free.

Melinda will read from her new collection, Homecoming (Bookland Press, 2025.) These poems, arranged according to the Medicine Wheel, gracefully span her childhood, marriage, divorce, parenthood, and parents’ aging, as well as her journey to reclaim and celebrate her Native heritage.

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Enid Osborn has lived in Santa Barbara, California for 45 years, and served as city Poet Laureate in 2017-2019. Her work has appeared in SALT, Askew, The Delta Review, Silver Birch Press, SB Literary Journal, Blue Mesa Review, and several Gunpowder Press anthologies. She co-edited A Bird Black as the Sun / California Poets on Crows & Ravens (Green Poet Press). Her first book, titled When the Big Wind Comes (Big Yes Press), takes place in Southeast New Mexico, where her family raised quarter horses. In addition to poetry, she writes songs, stories and reviews.