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Spare Room reading: Gabriel Urza, Joel Bettridge
December 8, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free – $5$5 suggested donation for the readers (no one turned away for lack of funds)
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Gabriel Urza is the author of the novel All That Followed (Henry Holt & Co.) and the novella The White Death: An Illusion. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, The Guardian, LitHub, and other publications. He teaches Creative Writing in the MFA program at Portland State University.
Joel Bettridge is the author of four books of poetry, Ligatures (Dos Madres 2019), The Public Life of Chemistry (The Cultural Society 2007), Presocratic Blues (Chax 2009), and That Abrupt Here (The Cultural Society 2007), as well as two critical studies, Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics (Routledge 2018) and Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith (Palgrave 2009). He co-edited Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (The National Poetry Foundation 2008). He is Professor of English at Portland State University.
Spare Room presents a reading by
GABRIEL URZA
JOEL BETTRIDGE
Sunday, December 8
7:00 PM
1223 NE ML King Blvd., Portland
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