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Polly Buckingham Reads "I Fold My Jacket with Utmost Care" by Francisco Layna, Trans. by JP Allen

Polly Buckingham's collection The Expense of a View was the 2016 winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, her chapbook A Year of Silence won the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award (2014), and she was the recipient of a 2014 Washington State Artists Trust fellowship. Her latest collection of poetry is forthcoming from Lost Horse Press. Her work appears in The Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review (reprinted at poetrydaily.com), Hanging Loose, Witness, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Poetry Review and elsewhere. Polly is founding editor of StringTown Press. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Washington University where she is also the editor of Willow Springs magazine.   

Chris Maccini previously worked at SPR as Morning Edition host and producing arts and special programming such as The Bookshelf, Poetry Moment, Northwest Arts Review, special features and more.
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