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Celebrating 45 Years of Mountain Writers Series
March 28, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 10:00 pm
FreeCelebrating 45 years of serving the literary community —
In March 2019, Mountain Writers Series will host an off-site event, free and open to the public, during the annual AWP Conference in Portland Oregon. This event will celebrate 45 years of programming and serving the literary community in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Scheduled Thursday, March 28, 2019, from 11:00 AM until 10:00 PM at the Hotel Rose in downtown Portland, dozens of Mountain Writers Series’ alumni poets and writers will pay tribute to a long list of those no longer with us and present as well some of their own work; they are listed below. Others will be listed, along with a complete schedule of times of presentations, as they are confirmed.
Poet/Writer paying tribute to:
| Judith Barrington | Maxine Kumin |
| Jonah Bornstein | Galway Kinnell |
| John Brehm
Robin Cody |
Donald Justice
Peter Sears |
| Gerald Costanzo
Michael Dickman |
Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson |
| Barbara Drake | Ursula LeGuin |
| Jennifer Grotz
Anita Helle Christopher Howell Cindy Lee Johnson Elinor Langer |
Tony Hoagland
Peter Sears Peter Sears Denis Johnson Katherine Dunn |
| Doug Marx
Christopher Merrill |
Czeslaw Milosz
Denis Johnson |
| Joseph Millar
Lee Montgomery |
Jack Gilbert
Denis Johnson |
| Paulann Petersen | Denise Levertov & Lucille Clifton |
| Carlos Reyes | Robert Duncan |
| Michael Robins | James Tate |
| Runciman, Lex | Richard Hugo & Madeline DeFrees |
| Maxine Scates | Lucia Perillo |
| Jim Shugrue | Vern Rutsala |
| Clemens Starck | Louis Simpson |
| Lisa Steinman | Carolyn Kizer |
| Gary Thompson
Sandra Williams |
Tom Crawford & Quinton Duval
Donald Hall |
| Patty Wixon | Derek Walcott |
| Vince Wixon | C. K. Williams |
Celebrating 45 Years of Mountain Writers Series – Thursday, March 28, 2019
11 AM – 12 PM Tribute to Peter Sears, Oregon’s Fifth Poet Laureate, with presentations by Robin Cody, Anita Helle, Christopher Howell, and others.
4 PM – 5 PM Tribute to Denis Johnson with Gerald Costanzo, Michael Dickman, Cindy Lee Johnson, Christopher Merrill and Lee Montgomery.
Glen Moore will perform on bass with select authors throughout the day.
The full schedule with times of presentations will be published on this web site before the event.
[from the Mountain Writers Series website]