Elizabeth is a poet, performer, teacher and poetry advocate She served as Washington state's Poet Laureate, 2014-2016.
Elizabeth believes poetry is part of our birthright as humans. Among the many things poetry can do, she's most invested in its capacity to confront big questions with intelligence and feeling. Through its intimacy, slowness and layered silences, poetry can offer moments of stillness in a frantic, clamorous world.
Audio Archive
Austen, Elizabeth
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Recent Additions
Vespers August 4, 1977 with Evelyn Streng – The Parable of the Prospectors
Vespers August 3, 1977 with Vern Failletaz – Let Freedom Ring!
Vespers August 2, 1977 with David Thiede
Vespers August 1, 1977 with Richard Caemmerer – There Are Holden Enough for Everyone
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Holden wishes to express appreciation to PLU, Pacific Lutheran University, for their support of the Holden Audio Archive Project.
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