Kathy Fridstein & Kelli Russell Agodon

About this event

Kathy Fridstein and Kelli Russell Agodon visit the store to discuss their new book Landscapes of Forgotten Forts, a collaboration between the artist and poet featuring photographs of Puget Sound’s Forts Worden, Flagler, and Casey, all used during World Wars I and II, and poetry responding to the photos. Registration is not required, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you'd like to RSVP, please do so here! Landscapes of the Forgotten Forts explores relationships between history and art, war and peace, built and natural environments, absence and presence. Through photographs and poems, the three forts—Casey, Worden, and Flagler—that comprised the Triangle of Fire are portrayed, invoking their original purpose, now long overrun by nature. Kathy Fridstein has taken thousands of photographs of these forts, homing in on a mediation on history through a certain kind of beauty. Award-winning poet Kelli Russell Agodon responds to several of Kathy Fridstein’s photographs to help create a reflective, lyrical history of the forts and interpret what it is like to be there now, juxtaposed with the current affairs of our country. Curator Kathleen Garret provides the foreword. Historian David Hansen contributes an essay to provide context for the forts; quotes from the soldiers stationed there weave throughout the pages evoking the ghosts from wars past and the relentless march of time. Kathy Fridstein is an artist/photographer living with her husband in Port Townsend, WA. After receiving an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kathy began a 40-year career of teaching in the Pacific Northwest and showing her art. Her work has been exhibited at regional and international venues, including the twentieth Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Exhibition, in Barcelona, and the Seattle Art Museum, where it was prominently featured in a three-person show, Altered Images. Her art is included in numerous public art collections, including the 1% Washington Public Art Purchase, the University of Washington Medical Center, and the Seattle Public Utilities Purchase. In 2025 she received an Artist Trust GAP award to help fund this book. Kelli Russell Agodon is an award-winning poet, editor, and author from Washington State. Her recent book is Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press). Her last book, Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in Poetry. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press and cohosts the poetry series, Poems You Need, with Melissa Studdard.

Who

• Kathy FridsteinAuthor
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  Kelli Russell AgodonAuthorKelli Russell Agodon is an American poet, writer, and editor. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press and she serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific…Photo: Oneart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_Agodon_Side_BW.jpg)
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The book

• Landscapes of Forgotten FortsKathy Fridstein

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Venue

Comstock's Bindery & Bookshop

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