“What I enjoy most about [Wren’s] music has to do with retelling the story that we have this amazing friendship with nature, and that most people in our culture are hungry to experience this feeling of belonging through music or other forms of art.”
– Brian, Listener
Past Events
WRITING ILLNESS LANDSCAPES & INHERITANCES
June 23 at 6:30 PST on Zoom
What new perspectives on illness can art offer in a time of collapsing human, environmental, and cultural health? Join us on Zoom for a cozy night of poetry, memoir, and discussion featuring three writers’ expansive takes on bodily inheritances and recovery.
Two years ago, I (Laura) received an incredible grant from 4culture to fund the writing and development of my first poetry manuscript. I have spent the period since in the fulfilling, grueling, euphoric, and ever-challenging process of putting together this collection… and it nears completion!
However, bringing a book into the world for the public is no small task, so while the book release celebration will be for another day (or year, or decade), I’m so excited to be hosting this event to showcase some early tidbits of the collection, alongside Margarita Cruz and Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm, two writers at similar stages of creation on manuscripts exploring bodies, earth, and inheritance.
I hope you’ll join us!
Zoom ID: 878 3417 6938
PW: recovery
This project was supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.
Margarita Cruz received her MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University. She serves as President of the Northern Arizona Book Festival, contributor for the Arizona Daily Sun and is a part time educator. When she’s not reading, writing, or building community, she is often out hiking in the high desert she has found a home in. She currently hosts a weekly open mic for writers, Poet Brews. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022, she can be found or is forthcoming in Rattle, Ploughshares, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day among other spaces. Explore her work at ShortEndings.com.
Laura Adrienne Brady is a writer, educator, and singer-songwriter (known as Wren). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Poet Lore, Brevity, EcoTheo Review, and elsewhere. Laura’s latest project Pink Stone is an album of original folk songs and an illustrated companion book set in Washington’s Methow Valley. A graduate of Northern Arizona University’s MFA program in Creative Writing, she currently teaches writing at universities around Arizona and hosts community classes under trees and online. Explore her multidisciplinary work at LauraAdrienneBrady.com.
Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm is a writer, musician, and community organizer. Founder of KPH & The Canary Collective, a people power indie folk project, she uses music as a storytelling and community organizing tool, particularly to highlight the need for action for climate and healthcare justice through multimedia projects and events. She has released three albums of original music and organized events such as “#BedFest 2017,” a virtual music and arts festival for bedridden artists and the “Sick Womxn and Queers Shows.” She is currently adapting her music for a PNW orchestra and finishing a book. Explore her work at CanaryCollective.org.
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Pink Stone
Songs & Writings from Moose Lodge
A multi-media exploration of nature, health, and intimacy set amongst the wild rivers and forests of Washington’s Methow Valley, traditional home of the Methow People.
A digital download of Wren’s third album, Pink Stone: Songs from Moose Lodge, inspired by four seasons in Washington’s Methow Valley.
At times both melancholic and joyous, the ten-song collection showcases Wren’s emotive vocals and classical-guitar accompaniment, bolstered by roots/Americana instrumentation and soothing textures of electric guitars and harmony vocals.
Your order includes a high-quality download of the album in MP3 format.
Gain an intimate window into Wren’s album Pink Stone: Songs from Moose Lodge with this extended lyric book of essays, song lyrics, journal entries, and letter excerpts.
The 5.5 x 5-inch, small-format chapbook is printed on natural paper with a velvety cover and is designed to nestle perfectly beside the physical album on your shelf: a lifelong companion to the music.
IMPORTANT: I endeavor to ship orders within 3 business days. However, as a one-woman shop, shipping may be delayed if I’m away from home. Contact me to inquire about timing if your order is time-sensitive. Thank you for your support of my micro business!
Gain an intimate window into Wren’s album Pink Stone: Songs from Moose Lodge with this extended, 98-page lyric book of essays, song lyrics, journal entries, and letter excerpts.
Bursting with vibrant landscape photos by Sol Gutierrez and watercolor illustrations of the region's flora and fauna by Anna Briggs, the Companion Book provides a contemplative journey through four seasons in the valley—as well revealing the inspiration of many songs.
Your purchase includes a single-page PDF for easy reading as well as a full-spread PDF that highlights the photography and illustrations.
Enjoy the songs and stories of Pink Stone: Songs from Moose Lodge with this hardcopy bundle of the album and book.
Album: At times both melancholic and joyous, the ten-song collection showcases Wren’s emotive vocals and classical-guitar accompaniment, bolstered by roots/Americana instrumentation and soothing textures of electric guitars and harmony vocals.
Book: This 98-page collection of essay vignettes, journal entries, and correspondence excerpts from Wren’s time in the Methow Valley includes song lyrics, watercolor illustrations of local flora and fauna by Anna Briggs, and photos by Sol Gutierrez. Printed on natural paper with a velvety cover, the 5.5 x 5-inch, small-format chapbook is designed to nestle perfectly beside the physical album on your shelf: a lifelong companion to the music.
IMPORTANT: I endeavor to ship orders within 3 business days. However, as a one-woman shop, shipping may be delayed if I’m away from home. Contact me to inquire about timing if your order is time-sensitive. Thank you for your support of my micro business!
Enjoy the songs and stories of Pink Stone: Songs from Moose Lodge with this digital bundle of the album and book. The 98-page collection of essay vignettes, journal entries, and correspondence excerpts from Wren’s time in the Methow Valley includes song lyrics, watercolor illustrations of local flora and fauna by Anna Briggs, and photos by Sol Gutierrez.
Your purchase includes the digital album files in MP3 format and a single-page and full-spread version of the Companion Book in PDF format.
“She begins high in the mountains, nestled in the heart of seven rugged peaks. Against the towering crags and plunging valleys, she is a small presence, great-great-great granddaughter to the glaciers that once crept their way through stone, clearing her way to the sea.”
Recent Publications
I am overcome with sorrow to share the news of the passing of a beloved elder and mentor, world flute musician Gary Stroutsos. I am sure there will be official eulogies and obituaries to come, written by people more qualified than I. So today I just want to share a bit about the Gary I knew and loved.
I’m so honored to have my poem included in Poetry Maps, a celebration of art and writing in Flagstaff, AZ!
“I don’t remember what my friend Zach and I were talking about on the phone that day, cozied in our prospective homes in the midst of a Flagstaff windstorm—if what he asked me was related to our conversation or simply out of the blue. But the question is now the only part of the conversation I’m able to recall.
‘Are you sick in your dreams?’ he asked.”
In this issue, Laura Adrienne Brady uses ancient tales to tell the modern story of living with chronic disease in four poems beginning with “I Seek Healing in the Usual Places.”⠀
Chronic illness already made dating hard. And then the pandemic arrived.
“I almost forgot—” my childhood friend interjected as we were wrapping up a phone call on a blustery September day. “I talked to Lindsey and she agrees that you don’t need to put a disclosure on your dating profile. You can just cross that bridge if you meet someone you like.”
July 13 was the ten-year anniversary of my first album, Bone Nest. To honor the occasion, I spent two weeks walking back through the stories behind the songs and the making of the album.
In A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability, editor Tennison S. Black gathers the work of contemporary Disabled and D/deaf visual and literary artists into a brilliant anthology reflective of the vibrancy and vitality of the community.
An exploration of ancestral wisdom and cultural loss in this wonderful environmental justice magazine.
I’m so happy to share this video collaboration with KPH in which we cover one of my favorite songs by Canadian folk-duo Dala.
When the day came to shoot, Mike had a vision in mind, part of which was to let the land and the place guide our work. Wind, rain, a landscape shimmering on the edge of fall...
PINK STONE is officially released! Listen, share, enjoy, and let me know what you think!
“I would not be here if not for illness. And being here is good. Must I then consider the illness, even if only in some small part, beneficial?”
Today, I bring you the third single from my forthcoming album, PINK STONE: SONGS FROM MOOSE LODGE.
“They hear me coming before they see me. I round the corner of the house, my entrance heralded by cockatiel cheeps and peeps and a call just for me. So quickly they have learned my new routine.”
Today, I bring you the second single from my forthcoming album, PINK STONE: SONGS FROM MOOSE LODGE.
Today, I bring you the first single from my forthcoming album: the song that conceptually sparked the Pink Stone collection.
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As a thank you for joining the mailing list, I’ll send you 5 of my favorite Wren tracks straight to your email. Hope you enjoy!
My first run-in with a swimming rabbit happened in the form of a dream. For many years, I thought this was a purely metaphorical vision; real rabbits likely couldn’t swim! But I found out later that a particular kind of rabbit — the marsh rabbit — indeed thrives in water environments.
Just this year, the marsh rabbit was finally captured on video! It’s quite a miraculous sight: watch it here!
I’m so thrilled to announce that the Kickstarter for my third album is live!! I would be so grateful for your support in bringing this new creative work into the world.
At long last... this beautiful video from last year's release show for Stitch an Ocean, put together by Rob Edmondson of Echo Prospect Productions.
Stitch an Ocean is officially released. Listen, share, enjoy, and let me know what you think!
It’s official. The album will drop on February 20th in Seattle (available on Feb 23rd nationally) – two months and three days from now! Mark your calendars and start getting excited! I just got the final masters back and am so incredibly happy with how it turned out. I can’t wait for you to hear.
The city wants to tear up my garden.
By garden, I actually mean a young, thriving food forest. It’s so much more than annual vegetables. Rising up from the street, the terraced slope laced by wood-chipped paths explodes in a colorful array of raspberries, elderberries, currants, aronia berries, salal, strawberries, blueberries, and rhubarb. Mixed in, smaller beds of kale, summer squash, peas, and sunflowers make a brave stand in the varied terrain. Birds swoop in for kale seeds and bees buzz cheerfully amongst the borage flowers.
I just released my first single, “The Road You Thought You Knew.” This song is very close to my heart, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you!
You finally get to hear all the exciting details about the album – and find out about the fun, Galicia-themed rewards that come along with a pledge.
A physical CD of Wren’s third album, Pink Stone: Songs from Moose Lodge, inspired by four seasons in Washington’s Methow Valley.
At times both melancholic and joyous, the ten-song collection showcases Wren’s emotive vocals and classical-guitar accompaniment, bolstered by roots/Americana instrumentation and soothing textures of electric guitars and harmony vocals.
IMPORTANT: I endeavor to ship orders within 3 business days. However, as a one-woman shop, shipping may be delayed if I’m away from home. Contact me to inquire about timing if your order is time-sensitive. Thank you for your support of my micro business!