"Library After Dark" Author Talk

The Warrenton Community Library is hosting author Robert Michael Pyle at "Library After Dark" on Saturday, March 8 at 4 p.m. Robert will share more about his writing process, read excerpts from his works and answer audience questions. Ecologist and writer Robert Michael Pyle has studied natural history and written essays, poetry, fiction, and science along a tributary of the Lower Columbia River since 1978. His 28 books include the Northwest classics Wintergreen, Sky Time in Gray's River, and Where Bigfoot Walks, the novel Magdalena Mountain, and a flight of standard butterfly books. The latest of his five poetry collections, The Last Man in Willapa, came out from Texas Tech Press in 2024, and the next, Swimming With Snakes, will appear from Watershed Press in 2025. A John Burroughs Medalist, Guggenheim Fellow, five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and PEN America Art of the Essay finalist, Bob may be heard on Spotify with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic for their album, Butterfly Launches from Spar Pole. An Honorary Life Fellow of both the Royal and American Entomological Societies, he has worked, taught, and read poems all over the world. Author talk starts at 4 p.m.; refreshments and mingling at 5 p.m. Special thanks to Gaetano's Market and Deli for sponsoring the food. "Library After Dark" is a monthly PNW author series. This event is free to attend and is hosted by the Friends of Warrenton Community Library.