From Literary Arts’s website: Anastacia-Reneé’s words frame so many questions: what is sacred, what is beauty, what is tragedy, what rites of passage have we endured to be initiated into the complexities of our humanity? The poems in her new book (v.), published by Gramma Books, read like rituals, invoking ancestors and Becky alike in a nuanced honest reflection of this time in life. Established in 2016, Gramma is an independent poetry press based in Seattle. Gramma is an offshoot of Western Bridge, a contemporary exhibition space, which existed in Seattle’s SODO District from 2004 to 2012. Ashley Toliver is the author of Spectra (Coffee House Press, September 2018) and a chapbook, Ideal Machine (Poor Claudia, 2014). A poetry editor at Moss., her work has been supported by the Cave…
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From Literary Arts’s website: The 2018/2019 series is sold out! Sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of the page to be among the first to know when next year’s series goes on sale, in Spring 2019. The series begins on October 11 with Jill Lepore, author of the New York Times best seller The Secret History of Wonder Woman and National Book Award finalist Book of Ages, discussing her new book, These Truths. On December 4, we welcome Tara Westover, whose first book Educated: A Memoir is a #1 New York Times bestseller. The series continues on January 17 with Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club selection; Leaving Atlanta; The Untelling; and Silver Sparrow. Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, will join us on…
Comments closedFrom Literary Arts’s website: Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam which meets on the second Thursday of each month. This mic provides a space that is creative, fun, and welcoming to all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old to come share their work. We strive towards a safer space for poets to read their own poetry, witness others, and participate in the community.
Comments closedFrom Mother Foucault’s website: Join us for Filament’s October reading, with special guest Jason Arias! The PSU writing program will have their usual cast of wonderful MFA readers in addition to Jason, and we’re happy to be hosting them again. See you the 13th! [Also featuring: Nitya Prem Brorson, Joshua Pollock, Lucie Bonvalet, and Jennifer Williams] Facebook event here.
Comments closedFrom Mother Foucault’s website: Join us on Friday, October 12, for the release of FEAR ICONS (OSU Press, Oct 2018) by Kisha Schlegel. Kisha is joined by Erica Trabold, author of the forthcoming FIVE PLOTS (Seneca Review Books, Nov 2018). “Who are we to each other when we’re afraid?” Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel asks in Fear Icons, her moving and original debut essay collection. Her answer is a lyric examination of the icons that summon and soothe our fears. From Donald Trump to the Virgin Mary, Darth Vader to the Dalai Lama, Schlegel turns cultural criticism personal with bracing intelligence and vulnerability as she explores what it means to be human, a woman, an artist, and, in particular, a parent: what it means to love a…
Comments closedFrom Mother Foucault’s website: Join us at the official hometown book launch celebration for Alicia Jo Rabins’ FRUIT GEODE (Augury Books)! Alicia will read poems and perform the live poetry soundtrack she has composed especially for the book on violin through electronic pedals. With very special guest, fiction and comics writer Mat Johnson (Loving Day, Incognegro, Pym, and so many more). About Fruit Geode: In lyrical, unflinching poems, Rabins investigates the passages of pregnancy, birth, and early infancy through a constellation of ancient and modern experience…In tracing the ritual mysteries of motherhood, Fruit Geode examines what it means to be transformed, to leave behind our certainties and walk into the unknown. “If you have a body, [‘Fruit Geode’] is a must read.”-Lynn Melnick About Mat…
Comments closedFrom Mother Foucault’s website: Emmett Wheatfall’s As Clean as a Bone is a collection of poems for both the heart and the mind, a collection seasoned with the vital and invigorating salt of poetry and wisdom. Through clean, crafted lines that ring out, these remarkable poems question history, memory, culture. These poems don’t just talk: they wrestle with experience, they debate, they think and play, they sing out with love and pain. “Can we sing a new song?” Emmett Wheatfall asks. With their deft musical cadences and resonant depths, the poems in this new book answer back with a resounding YES. Emmett Wheatfall lives in Portland, Oregon where he reads, writes, publishes and performs poetry. He has published six books of poetry. They are He Sees Things (2010), We…
Comments closedFrom Mother Foucault’s website: Join us on Friday, October 5 for a reading with Janice Rubin and Kate Gray in celebration of Tin Coyote, published by Blue Light Press in 2017. About Tin Coyote: A poignant journey traversing love, loss, memory and renewal, Tin Coyote is rooted in the inner landscape of the heart as well as the physical landscape of the poet’s beloved Oregon. The Oregon Coast, Warm Springs, Siuslaw River and Lake Paulina, among other iconic destinations at home and abroad, are vividly rendered backdrops to reflections and self-explorations. ‘Light reflects, refracts/creating space and possibility.’ Janice Rubin is a keen observer of self and environment. Janice D. Rubin is a counselor and educator. She received her M.S. from the University of Oregon and her B.A. in…
Comments closedFrom Mother Foucault’s Website: Join Chaya Bhuvaneswar Saturday, September 29 for a reading from her forthcoming short story collection White Dancing Elephants (Dzanc, 2018). Chaya reads with Genevieve Hudson, author of Pretend We Live Here (Future Tense, 2018) In luminous, vivid, searingly honest prose, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women of color—cunning, bold, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence, as well as the violence women inflict upon each other. Combining the speculative elements and wry psychological realism beloved by readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Margaret Atwood, Danzy Senna and Sandra Cisneros, this collection introduces Chaya Bhuvaneswar as an original and memorable new voice. CHAYA BHUVANESWAR is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Michigan…
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