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Portland State Faculty Author Exhibition

Miller Library 1875 SW Park Avenue, Portland

Join us as we highlight three PSU faculty authors who published books in 2018. Leni Zumas is an Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Writing program in PSU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Zumas is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Red Clocks, recognized by The Washington Post as one of the 50 most notable works of fiction in 2018. Billie Sandberg is an Associate Professor of Public Administration in PSU’s College of Urban and Public Affairs. Sandberg co-authored Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change. Mitchell Cruzan is a Professor of Biology in PSU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Cruzan is the author of Evolutionary Biology: A Plant Perspective. Food and beverages will be provided. Open to the public.…

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Free Range Poetry: Kristin Berger, Joannie Stangeland, Carey Taylor

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland

Free Range Poetry presents Kristin Berger, Joannie Stangeland, Carey Taylor Monday, May 6, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland An open mic will precede featured poets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. KRISTIN BERGER is the author of three poetry collections: Echolocation (Cirque Press, 2018), How Light Reaches Us (Aldrich Press, 2016), and a chapbook, For the Willing (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Her long prose-poem, Changing Woman & Changing Man: A High Desert Myth, was a finalist for the 2016 Newfound Prose Prize. Recent work has appeared in Four Chambers Press, The Inflectionist Review, Light: Journal of Photography and Poetry, Mockinghart Review, and Santa Ana River…

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Grant High School WITS

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

We welcome students from Grant High School participating in Literary Arts Writers in the Schools program. The talent, passion, and energy these hardy young souls show us every time is impressive. We always eagerly look forward to these student reading evenings. Please join us!

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Seanan McGuire

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

Alex, Nebula, and Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in her new standalone fantasy, Middlegame (Tor.com). Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realize it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.

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Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

In Putting on the Dog (Trinity University), Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing. Kwasny travels the globe to visit both large-scale industrial manufacturers and community-based, often subsistence production by people who have spent their lives working with animals. She examines historical rates of consumption and efforts to move toward sustainability, all while considering animal welfare, worker safety, environmental health, and respect for indigenous knowledge and practice.

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