Poet Lisa Wells and author Joshua Marie Wilkinson will do readings July 11 at the Sou'Wester Lodge.

SEAVIEW, Wash. — The Sou’Wester Lodge will host Lisa Wells and Joshua Marie Wilkinson for a reading at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 11.

Portland poet and essayist Lisa Wells is the author of the book of essays “Yeah. No. Totally.” and the chapbook “BEAST.” She collaborated with photographer Bobby Abrahamson, Wells documented four small, rural towns in Oregon in the book “The West Behind Us.”

She holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is about to move to Singapore, where she’ll teach poetry at Yale-NUS College.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of “Swamp Isthmus,” “The Courier’s Archive & Hymnal” and “Meadow Slasher,” among others. With Solan Jensen he made a tourdocumentary about indie-rock band Califone called “Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape.”

Having grown up in Seattle, Wilkinson now lives in Tucson, teaches at the University of Arizona and runs a poetry journal called The Volta and a small press called Letter Machine Editions.