Submitted by Griffin Bay Bookstore

Griffin Bay Bookstore is sponsoring a poetry reading with Conner Bouchard-Roberts in its Café Sunday, July 21 at 2 p.m. in Friday Harbor.

Conner Bouchard-Roberts is a writer, publisher, and book designer. He owns a bookshop in Port Townsend—where he is currently serving as the inaugural Poet Laureate.

A book for being lost on real and/or imagined borders, A Field Companion for Wandering is an Anti-Lonely-Planet manifesto. Working to critique forms of commercial and colonial travel that have taken over our imaginations of the world. It is a sincere text that is meant to be read while traveling. A text that inspires contact with strangers, that changes meaning based on where/when you read it, that never offers answers, and most simply is a companion to the loneliness and fear one encounters when out in the world.

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