Poetry

Come help dan raphael celebrate his new book, Manything, with this book launch at Portland's premier reading venue. Manything is 132 pages long, and comes form Unliekly Books in New Orleans. Lawrence Smith, editor of Caliban, wrote: "It is appropriate that Dan Raphael’s Manything has come out in the year of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. Raphael is one of the few poets since Whitman to have such a complete delight in the multiplicity of the world. His integration of the objects of man’s making with the wildness of nature is liberating. The poet’s body parts can function independently and often co-mingle freely with dirty streets, rain, bottles, squirrels, and the sun. Manything is a vision, one that moves us beyond our complacency, making us less…