Kitsap author Sue Sutherland-Hanson will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company to discuss her new poetry collection “Stars and Strangers” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9.

“Sutherland-Hanson shows us that we’re all connected: from clamming with friends to being ‘repaired’ at the Napa Auto Parts store; from planting the summer garden to keeping vigil for a loved one,” said Holly J. Hughes, author of “Passings.”

“These tender, lyrical poems demonstrate the shimmering threads that join us while revealing the ‘slippery mystery, this everyday once-ness of each person’s life.’ In her compassionate poems, Sutherland-Hanson reaches out to address and embrace not only loved ones, but ‘perfect strangers’ encountered on the road and in the news.”

Sutherland-Hanson, of Poulsbo, spent 30 years enjoying diverse cultures, languages, and ways of seeing life while she taught English to international and immigrant students at Edmonds Community College.

Before retiring, she earned her master’ degree of divinity from a Quaker seminary that emphasized writing as ministry.