Hungry Ghosts with Cindy Buchanan
Sun, Jun 07
|Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
Member book release and celebration
Time & Location
Jun 07, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
About the Event
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is delighted to celebrate the release of poet and Folio member Cindy Buchanan's poetry collection Hungry Ghosts, now available to order from Kelsay Books. We invite you to share in the celebration with an evening of readings by Cindy and poets Louhi Pohjola, Kathy Pon, and Seth Rosenbloom. The readings will be followed by a Q&A session and a wine reception.
Cindy Buchanan grew up in Alaska, graduated from Gonzaga University with a B.A. in English, and studies poetry with Jeanine Walker. Her poems have been published in many journals, and her chapbook is Learning to Breathe.
Praise for Hungry Ghosts:
In Cindy Buchanan’s bracing and beautiful collection Hungry Ghosts, we are never far from nature — its solace, yes, but also its indifference to our human plight. And while nature may be “unmoved,” the reader is not, for Buchanan writes poems of great feeling, luminous clarity,…