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Bloomsday

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Event TBA…

Free

Spare Room reading: Will Alexander and John Beer

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland

Will Alexander--Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, aphorist, visual artist, and pianist, who has authored over 30 books and chapbooks. He is a Writing Fellow, a California Arts Council Fellow, and a PEN Oakland recipient. In addition to the above he is also an American Book Award winner for his book of essays Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat in 2013. In 2016 he was awarded the Jackson Prize for his body of poetry, and in 2018 he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Currently he lives in Los Angeles and is on the Cal State L.A. Advisory Writing Board and is poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. John Beer is the author of Lucinda and The Waste Land and…

Free – $5