The following description comes from the event organizer.

Poetry is vital to language and living. Based in Port Townsend, Washington, Copper Canyon Press is a nationally recognized publisher dedicated to advancing the art, practice, and reading of poetry from around the world. 2023 marks a half century of its efforts in doing so—to celebrate this 50th anniversary, Copper Canyon will host a reading of poets who stand at the crossroads of poetry’s past and future. Coinciding with the AWP conference in Seattle, this reading takes advantage of a rare consortium of extraordinary poets, many of whom are convening for the first time since the pandemic, and all of whom will be presenting new or recent work.