Finally Found Books hosts a poetry workshop at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, featuring Lorraine Healy and Marci Ameluxen.

The public is welcome. The bookstore is at 3705 Auburn Way N.

Lorraine Healy

Healy, a native of Argentina, will read from her new chapbook, “Abraham’s Voices” (Kingston, Wash., World Enough Writers, 2013), a series of 10 poems accompanied by her own fine arts black and white photographs of ancient artifacts found in Paris, France and Israel.

Winner of several national awards and a 2004 Pushcart nomination, Healy is a graduate of the MFA in Poetry program at New England College (N.H.) and the post-MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles.

Her first book of poems, “The Habit of Buenos Aires”, (Tebot Bach Press, 2010), won the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. She also is author of two previous chapbooks, “The Farthest South” and “The Archipelago”.

Healy’s photographic images, captured with a collection of four “weird” cameras, have been the subject of collective shows on Whidbey Island. She is at work on a series of photos of old cafés in Buenos Aires and vintage diners in various corners of the United States.

Marci Ameluxen

Ameluxen, author of Lean House, (Kingston, Wash., MoonPath Press, 2013) will read from the book poems that painstakingly reconstruct a childhood pervaded by a mother’s mental illness. She examines that life with anguish, love and compassion in poems that are sharp as bits of a broken mirror.

It’s not so much drama or melodrama that informs her poems, Ameluxen says, but “simplicity and intensity of experience; emotion, detail, and a stark, clean line. I like to see white space on the page.”

Having lived most of her life on islands, she now lives on Whidbey, with her husband and two children, her unruly garden, and an unlikely passion for chickens.

Until recently, she was 4H Poultry Leader for Island County.

Her poems have appeared in The Crab Creek Review, Rose Red Review, The Comstock Review, Waccamaw, The Madison Review, The Compass Rose, The Dirty Napkin, Hospital Drive, and other literary magazines – and she is working on a new manuscript, a collection of prose poems set in 1986 Central America, where sea turtles talk, and Jesus appears as Elvis.

For more information, call the bookstore at 253-886-2131 or visit www.finallyfoundbooks.com.