Poets Scott Cairns and Luci Shaw and novelist River Jordan will give readings Friday, Aug. 2 at KindlingsFest. The public is welcome to attend. The readings begin at 6 p.m. at Orcas Island Community Church.

Cairns was born in Tacoma, Wash. and has been described by Annie Dillard as one of America’s greatest living poets. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and The New Republic.

Shaw is author of 10 volumes of poetry and has edited three poetry anthologies and a festschrift, The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L’Engle, (Shaw, 1998).

Jordan’s first novel “The Gin Girl” (Livingston Press, 2003), has garnered high praise. Her narrative non-fiction “Praying for Strangers, An Adventure of the Human Spirit,” arrived to critical acclaim in April of 2011 and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.