Saturday, April 4th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
|Nevada City Winery
Book Launch Reading & Celebration: Weight of Water By Samantha Wallen
Time & Location
Saturday, April 4th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Nevada City Winery, 321 Spring St, Nevada City, CA 95959, USA
About The Event
Book Launch Reading & Celebration: Weight of Water
Date: April 4, 2026
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
Poet Samantha Wallen celebrates the release of Weight of Water (Finishing Line Press) with a public reading and community gathering. The collection moves through grief, loss, and ecological witness—holding together the death of a mother, the loss of home, and the disappearance of species and landscapes. These poems serve as elegy and survival manual, attending to sorrow while remaining rooted in beauty, devotion, and the possibility of restoration. Wallen is a Grass Valley–based poet and writing guide with an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in Dark Mountain, The Nature of Things: Sacred Spaces, and Kerning, among others.