Devreaux Baker is the 2022 Fischer National Poetry Prize Winner, the 2019 and 2014 International Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize Winner from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and a 2011 PEN Poetry Prize recipient for her book, Red Willow People. Other awards include the Poets In Mexico Poetry Prize, A Women’s Global Leadership Poetry Prize, a California Arts Council Award, and the Hawaii Council on Humanities International Poetry Prize. Her Poetry Fellowships include a Hawthornden Castle Poetry Residency in Scotland, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Poetry Residency in Taos, New Mexico.

She has published five books of poetry, Light At The Edge, Beyond the Circumstance of Sight, Red Willow People, Out Of the Bones of Earth, and Hungry Ghosts. Her work has been published in numerous national and international journals and anthologies, and she has taught poetry workshops in the U.S., France, and Mexico.

She has taught poetry in the schools through the California Arts Council Poets In Schools Program and directed the Mendocino Coast Poets Reading Series with funding from the James Irvine Foundation.

We'll follow Devreaux's reading with time for Q & A about her work and inspirations, with time afterwards for poetry sharing from attendees- a Gourd Circle of sharing whatever poetry you wish or just listening in. For those who desire, the poetic prompt for March is Alignment.