Lower Columbia College has announced that State Poet Florence Sage will be featured at the May 22 Northwest Voices event in Longview.

· The poet will present a writing workshop from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Health & Science Building, Room 101 (HSB 101) on the Lower Columbia College campus.

· Beginning at 7:00 p.m., she will hold a reading at the Longview Public Library.

· Both events are free and open to the public.

Florence Sage, of Astoria, has been an organizer of local poetry mics, a poetry editor, and for 22 years, a co-producer of the annual FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria. She reads at Ric’s Poetry Mic, first Tuesdays in Astoria, as well as by invitation at local literary events. Her 2014 collection is Nevertheless: Poems from the Gray Area, Hipfish Publications. She is completing two new poetry manuscripts: The Man Who Whistled, The Woman Who Wished and What to Do with Night.