NIGHT LIGHTS: If anyone calls you a witch,/burn for him; if anyone calls you/less or more than you are/let him burn for you./It’s a dangerous mission. You/could die out there. You/could live forever. This is an excerpt from Tess Gallagher’s poem “Instructions to the Double,” first published in 1976 and included in Midnight Lantern, a retrospective released this year. A Port Angeles native and UW alumnus, Gallagher returns to Washington for a reading from her new release that also includes 30 new poems. Her works include 12 poetry books, 3 fiction books, 2 essay collections, and a published conversation with Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi. She was also married to fellow Washingtonian Raymond Carver. more ›

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