Poets Holaday Mason and River Malcolm will present a joint reading 7 p.m., Friday, July 25, at Darvill’s Bookstore. Refreshments will be served.

Holaday Mason, who lives in Venice, California, is the daughter of Orcas resident Barbara Urschel and the stepdaughter of deceased Orcas poet Bill Urschel. She is the author of “Towards the Forest” (The University of Minnesota – New River Press, 2007) and two chapbooks: “Light Spilling From Its Own Cup” (Inevitable Press, 1999) and “Interlude” (Far Star Fire Press, 2001). Her manuscript “Dissolve” was a finalist for the 2005 Autumn House Press prize, The Backwater Press and The Tupelo Press awards. Her poems can be viewed at www.holadaymason.com. “Towards the Forest” will be available following the reading.

River Malcolm, who has lived on Orcas (across the street from the Urschel home) for 14 years, wrote “The Mother Poems: A Daughter Wrestling With a Difficult Love” (iUniverse Press, 2007 and the forthcoming “Magic Carpet: Selected Poems.” Her poems have also appeared nationally in sculpture installations, most notably the Real Women series, and locally in poetry-dance collaborations with Pat Littlewood. “The Mother Poems” is available at Darvill’s.