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First Word is our new monthly reading series to be held the first Thursday of each month. Join us for a night of readings, talks, and tunes from the Portland zine distro and cassette tape label, Antiquated Future. Words from Joshua James Amberson, Karleigh Frisbie, Christopher Sutton, Danny Noonan, Candi Floss, and Bryce Canyon. Music from Olympia indie-pop supergroup Guidon Bear.
Part spoken-word poetry, part storytelling, part extreme athletic art performance. Michael Namkung’s one-man show Seeing The Invisible is a no-holds-barred love story that journeys through the emotional life of men with a rawness and vulnerability that will break your heart wide open and reveal the creative power that lives within us all. Join Michael as he invites the audience directly into the work in his debut presentation of Seeing The Invisible INTERACTIVE. …….. Michael Namkung is Bob Ross diguised as an Olympic athlete. Michael is a father, poet, artist and multiple world champion. He is best known for Drawing Gym, an art form that inspires audiences to transcend their personal limitations by drawing while performing rigorous physical exercise. He has spoken and performed in museums,…
Some days you need a pick-me-up, some days you need a life preserver. “For most of us,” writes Anna Borges, “self-care is a wide spectrum of decisions and actions that soothe and fortify us against all the shit we deal with.” You may already practice some form of self-care, whether it’s taking an extra-long shower after a stressful day, splurging on a fancy dinner, or choosing Netflix over that friend-of-a-friend’s birthday party. But when life gets so overwhelming that you want to stay in bed, some more radical care is crucial to maintain your sanity. Borges’s The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care (The Experiment) is here to help you exist in the world.
Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading The Cool Bean by Jory John.
Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, January 4th, we'll have a feature from Brett Elena and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Brett Elena Brett calls the Blue Ridge Mountains and her best friend's couch home. She writes because it makes her happy, without any awards to her name. When not scribbling, she can be found attempting to learn piano or tormenting her twin sister. She has crossed six continents in her search for the zero-calorie cookie and is currently working on her latest project, “The Stories I Never Told.” *** Sign-ups start at 5:30, show starts at 6PM. On first and third Saturdays each performer in the open mic gets 10…
Musicians, writers, poets, fans and friends will play music, read work/tributes and tell stories about the great American poet and songwriter David Berman (Purple Mountains, Silver Jews) on what should have been his 53rd birthday. A benefit for Moms Demand Action and Write Around PDX With… Stephen Malkmus Bob Nastanovich Rebecca Gates William Tyler Clay Cole Franklin Bruno Oed Ronne A Certain Smile and writers: Kevin Sampsell Chelsey Johnson Jon Raymond Mo Daviau Kjerstin Johnson Daniel Elder Sophia Shalmiyev Douglas Wolk (MC) & Special Guests presented by chickfactor
The Voice of Empathy continues at thetinytheaterPDX, 3306 SE 65th Ave, Portland, OR. Please spread out the parking around the neighborhood to avoid congestion. The series showcases poets whose work investigates the human capacity for compassion and generosity and invites the reader/listener to care deeply for others and the world. This description is for the poets’ reference only and does not presume to impose any constraints on the work selected for presentation. There is room for 37-39 poetry lovers. Please come a few minutes in advance to reserve your seats. In case of snow, please monitor this event for possible rescheduling. Marilyn Stablein, poet, essayist and multimedia artist, published 3 books this year: Milepost 27: Poems; Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu:…
Elise Blaha Cripe’s Big Dreams, Daily Joys (Chronicle) is an empowering guide to establishing healthy habits so that it's easy (and fun!) to accomplish long-term goals – filled with simple-to-follow techniques, rituals, and exercises for accomplishing day-to-day tasks and making progress on bigger goals. For those who feel overwhelmed by endless to-do lists and the stresses that come with daily life, Big Dreams, Daily Joys is an invaluable resource for anyone who is tackling a creative project, running their own business, or simply trying to manage time more efficiently.
Karr is a teenage boy like many others in the galaxy. He goes to school, helps his parents with the family business, likes speeders and droids. But Karr also has a secret: when he touches certain objects, he gets searing headaches and blacks out. And along with the pain sometimes come visions of people he doesn’t know and places he’s never been. Karr’s parents worry that he’s sick; his grandmother is convinced the visions come from the Force. But it’s been years since anyone has heard from the last of the Jedi – Luke Skywalker. Are there any Jedi left to guide Karr in the use of his abilities? Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Force Collector (Disney Lucasfilm) is the new YA…
The Last Stand at the Wildwood Saloon is OVER THE MOON to be featuring the writing of Tracy Burkholder, author of I Want More, a lyric hybrid of memoir, poetry and image released by Summerbear Press in 2019. STOP! Before we go further, we had better read what a reviewer has said of her work, Deb on Amazon: “This book will remind your ribs and skin what it was like to long before you locked longing in a closet meant for somebody else. Each page prompts you to hold your breath, then let it out again slow. It will make you want to remember the days when you knew what a body can know.” Okay. Are you on the floor yet? Alive? Ready? Deb is…
Join us as we hear the local young talented writers read their work aloud!
@p_n_c_a Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing winter snowball Residency begins tomorrow! Readings are free & open to the public. You should attend! https://pnca.edu/news/grad/lrcw/pnca-offers-talks-discussions-and-readings-by-acclaimed-writers-as-part-of-the-winter-low-residency-mfa-in-creative-writing-program. @pncacriticalstudies Matt Hart Walidah Imarisha Tyrone Williams Room 601
A House on Stilts (University of Iowa) tells the story of one woman’s struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker’s son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright, curious child. And yet, addiction found him. More than 2.5 million Americans are addicted to opioids, some half-million of these to heroin. For many of them, their drug addiction leads to lives of demoralization, homelessness, and constant peril. Within this 10-year crucible, Becker is transformed by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what she can do and what she cannot do.
Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poet Shawn Aveningo Sanders to read from What She Was Wearing. How long can you keep a dark secret before you become completely unraveled? In What She Was Wearing, Sanders uses poetry, prose, and letters to tell her #MeToo story—one that has taken over 30 years to reveal. In this collection, Shawn shares her nightmare of being raped at a fraternity toga party, and examines the event from a variety of perspectives, including poems written from the viewpoint of her attackers; the toga she was wearing; homecoming years later; and even the moment she told her college-aged children. As Shawn’s story unfolds, the reader will come to understand how significant the aftermath of rape can be. For decades, she was "triggered"…
Welcome the New Year with a reading vaguely connected to the theme: The 20s. Our powerhouse lineup includes: Joni Renee Whitworth, Leah Baer, Jessica Mehta, and Dustin Hendrick. This year heralds great change, and it's a great time to join in this community and this discussion. Please join us.
Now that Nina has turned the Watcher’s Castle into a utopia for hurt and lonely demons, she’s still waiting for the utopia part to kick in. With her sister Artemis gone and only a few people remaining at the castle – including her still-distant mother – Nina has her hands full. But there’s also a new threat on the outside, portended by an odd triangle symbol that seems to be popping up everywhere. Because one near-apocalypse just isn’t enough, right? The darkness always finds you. And once again, it’s coming for the Slayer. Chosen (Simon Pulse) is the new novel from Kiersten White, set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. White will be joined in conversation by Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter…
Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things) (Twelve), combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue. Many, many things happen in Movies (And Other Things), some of which are funny, others of which are sad, a few of which are insightful, and all of which are handled with the type of care and dedication to the smallest details and pockets of pop culture that only a book by Shea Serrano can provide.
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Hosted by Christopher Luna and Toni Lumbrazo Luna of Printed Matter Vancouver Featuring Luther Allen and J.I. (Judy) Kleinberg 7 pm Thursday, January 9 Open mic sign up begins at 6:30 and closes at 7 $5 Suggested donation No one turned away for lack of funds Angst Gallery 1015 Main Street Vancouver, WA 98660 angstgallery.com Food and libation provided by Niche Wine Bar, 1013 Main Street Sound provided by Briz Loan & Guitar: http://briz.us/ LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY, ANTI-FASCIST, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004 Luther Allen writes and designs buildings from Sumas Mountain, Washington. He facilitates SpeakEasy, a community poetry reading series in Bellingham and is co-editor of Noisy Water, an anthology of local poets. His collection of poems, The View…
Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Camille Virginia. The modern dating process is a mess - but it hasn't changed your innate desire for love and human connection. So rather than add to the exhausting narrative about the perils of digital dating, author Camille Virginia created a refreshing and powerful solution for it. In The Offline Dating Method, Virginia draws upon her transformation from a shy girl with social anxiety to a confident woman who's been asked out by nearly 300 men (from the Denver airport to the greeting card aisle of a drug store) without ever going online or using a dating app. Combining her own experiences with five years of teaching thousands of women across 100 different countries how to get the same results…
The Magical Language of Others (Tin House) is a powerful, aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh’s parents return to South Korea for work, leaving 15-year-old Koh and her brother behind in California. Her mother writes letters, in Korean, over the years, seeking forgiveness and love – letters Koh cannot fully understand until she finds them years later in a box. Koh fearlessly grapples with forgiveness, reconciliation, legacy, and intergenerational trauma, arriving at insights that are essential reading for anyone who has ever had to balance love, longing, heartbreak, and joy. The Magical Language of Others weaves a profound tale of hard-won selfhood and our deep bonds to family, place, and language,…
Readers include these authors: Stephanie Striffler, Delia Garigan, Linda Apell, Susan Moshofsky, and Ulrikka Haveron. Let's get 2020 started right and appreciate VoiceCatcher in the process.
In The Chosen One (Berkley), the new novel from Walt Gragg, a fundamentalist Islamic army is on the march in the Middle East, and the fight to stop the spread of madness will take everything the American military can muster. Two months ago, a new leader arose in the Islamic world, the Mahdi – or the Chosen One. He has rallied fundamentalist Muslim forces across the Middle East who have driven deep into Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Standing against them is an allied force made up primarily of American military. It’s a desperate fight. From armored battles in the desert to American carriers desperately dodging waves of cruise missiles, the Mahdi proves to have many tricks up his sleeve.
PNCA presents Renee Gladman and Lisa Radon at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) on January 10th at 6:30 pm as part of the Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing Winter Residency. Gladman and Radon will read from their most recent works. This event is made possible by a generous grant from the Collins Foundation. It’s free and open to the public. Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She is the author of twelve published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), and Houses of Ravicka (2017)—as well…
Please join us this Friday Jan 10th from 7pm-9pm for a reading sponsored by the Northwest Academy Visiting Writer’s Series, featuring DC poet Kyle Dargan.
Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? Despite Samuel Woolley's warnings as early as 2013, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in his urgent new book, The Reality Game (PublicAffairs), it may pale in comparison to what's to come: human-like automated voice systems, machine learning, "deepfake" AI-edited videos and images, interactive memes, and more. In deeply researched stories, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics.
Entering the academy at the dawn of the women’s rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first generation of feminist academics had a difficult journey. With few female role models, they had to forge their own path and prove that feminist scholarship was a legitimate enterprise. In her compelling memoir, Living When Everything Changed (Rutgers), Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. She recounts her experiences at three very different schools: Lewis & Clark College, Cal State Fullerton, and Portland State University.
Portland’s second Winter Poetry Festival is a joyful gathering of poets and poetry lovers. Winter is a magical time where the beauty of language burns brightly in the darkness. The festival will feature a marketplace where you can support poets by buying from them directly, inspiring workshops for poets of all levels of experience, innovative performances and craft-talks from top-notch poets, a guest-screening from Seattle’s Cadence: Video Poetry Festival, and the “Poet’s Playground” an ephemeral pop-up of poetic challenges and collaborations. The Festival will be housed in the beautiful PNCA. ADA accessible. Centrally-located, near many major transit lines.
Inspired by the one and only superhero, extraterrestrial, and rock-and-roll deity in history, Michael and Laurie Allred’s Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns, and Moonage Daydreams (Insight) is the original graphic memoir of the great Ziggy Stardust! In life, David Bowie was one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, seducing generations of fans with both his music and his counterculture persona. In death, the cult of Bowie has only intensified. The Allreds will be joined in conversation by Ben Saunders, director of the University of Oregon’s Comics and Cartoon Studies program.
Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday January 11th, we'll have a feature from Brianna Grisby, mini-features from Julia Gaskill & Stephen Meads, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Brianna Grisby Brianna Grisby is a spoken word poet born and raised in Portland Oregon. She was the 2018 grand slam champion. She has been on the Portland unified slams team twice and will be representing Portland Poetry Slam at the 2020 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Dallas Texas. She loves using her voice to advocate for others, and to help people feel valid. MINI-FEATURES FROM: Julia Gaskill Julia Gaskill (she/her) is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. She has…
This Saturday, January 11, poet and book artist MC Hyland will be in Portland and reading from her latest collection, THE END (Sidebrow 2019). She’ll be joined by New York artist and public practitioner Chloë Bass. MC Hyland is a poet, publisher, scholar, teacher, and public artist. Her poems have been published in journals in the US, UK, and Australia, and she is the author of two full-length books of poetry—THE END (Sidebrow, 2019) and NEVERAGAINLAND (Lowbrow/ H_NGM_N)—and a dozen poetry chapbooks and artist books. From 2009-2012, she ran the Pocket Lab Reading Series in Minneapolis with Jeff Peterson, and she now occasionally curates poetry readings in New York City with various friends. The founding editor of DoubleCross Press, she has worked at Minnesota Center…
Poet Ken Yoshikawa will read from his newly published book, Monster Colored Glasses a bilingual narrative exploring personal issues of trauma, vulnerability and personal transformation while addressing social responsibility themes. Ken Yoshikawa is half-Japanese, and a poet-actor from Portland, Oregon. He is an active voice in the spoken word community and his acting has been seen in diverse performances in local theatres. Ken’s powerful use of words are featured in his first autobiographical poetic solo, The Art of Fly Swatting, which was performed off-Broadway in NYC at the Pan Asian Repertory Festival in 2019 and his poems have appeared in Nailed Magazine, Letters from the Void, Hapa Mag and Discover Nikkei. The evening includes a reception, book signing, and poetry readings by Ken and guest…
The world may know Chris Duffin as "The Mad Scientist of Strength," but you wouldn't have ever guessed that if you saw the scrawny kid skinning rattlesnakes and chasing dragonflies in the early ’80s. The story of his unconventional life will take you from gripping tales of murder, trauma, heartbreak, and survival deep in the Pacific Northwest wilderness all the way to an idealization of the self-made man – still flawed, but never broken. In Duffin’s The Eagle and the Dragon (Lioncrest), you'll follow one man's journey into the darkness of his own heart and witness the transformation of alcoholism, pain, and defeat into vision, character, and victory.
Every year we celebrate Edgar Allan Poe with a birthday party/roast that includes a variety of performances. This year is no exception. We're looking at bringing six new acts to you along with some surprises. Join us for a taste of the macabre like only Portland can provide! Sally K. Lehman Melissa Lynne Katie Doyle Tim Stapleton Beats by Taber Arias Nastashia Minto performing The Raven and more TBA! Celebrate the master of the macabre with spoken word, music, improv, and skits that are inspired by Poe, are interpretations of his work, or roasts of Poe. DOORS AT 7:30pm. From the Poe Museum website: The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His…
One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out – in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships – is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them. In an age of scheduling demands and digital distractions, this might sound like a tall order. But as Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson, authors of The Whole-Brain Child, reassuringly explain, showing up doesn’t take a lot of time, energy, or money. Siegel joins us to present his new book (cowritten with Bryson), The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired (Ballantine).
In his role as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, the world’s largest program for healing population-wide trauma, Harvard-trained psychiatrist James Gordon has taught a curriculum that has alleviated trauma to populations as diverse as refugees and survivors of war in Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Gaza, and Syria, as well as Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation, New York City firefighters, and members of the U. S. military. The Transformation (HarperOne) represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon’s 50 years as a mind-body medicine pioneer and advocate of integrative approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress.
BONUS BLACKOUT PARTY: In honor of the fun we had last year when the power went out, we have established an annual blackout party. We will operate by candlelight, no recorded music. David Loftus will launch the evening with Story Time for Grown Ups, and then guests are welcome to play non-amplified acoustic music or simply enjoy a gentle, quiet evening. “Story Time for Grownups” presents an American original: the uncanny, unearthly, and chillingly amusing Ambrose Bierce. A journalist of the Old West who (unlike Stephen Crane or Mark Twain) really did fight in Civil War battles and chose to tell the truth about them. No cover. Bierce specialized in three kinds of stories: realistic accounts of Civil War battles, ghost stories set mostly in…
Author and psychotherapist Rebecca Alexander reads and signs copies of her new book, A Kids Book About Body Image, helping kids of all races, genders, and sizes have a better understanding of body image and tune out the noise and unhealthy messaging that often surrounds the topic.
We are pleased to welcome Portland poet Dan Raphael to read from his new books of poems, Manything, published by Unlikely Books. Raphael is a master of verse and performance, and this post-Beat tome contains sixty-five of his wild, vivid trips-in-verse. Raphael was born in Pittsburgh and attended Cornell University, Bowling Green State University, and Western Washington University. Since the 1970s, he has lived in the Northwest, working and sharing the fruits of his labor as a poet, literary activist, performer, editor, and reading host. He retired from the Oregon DMV after thirty-three years and lives in Portland with his wife Melba and more than 400 plant varieties. Most Wednesdays he writes and records a “current events poem” for the KBOO evening news. Raphael has…
Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon mystery authors W.H. "Bill" Cameron and J.S. James. Crossroad is Oregon author W.H. Cameron's latest mystery. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor a clear indication she was even part of the accident. The crash offers plenty…
When it comes to friendship, family, and romance, we all want the same things: to love and be loved, to communicate, to fight fair, and to feel okay in our own skin. Jessica Lanyadoo’s Astrology for Real Relationships (Ten Speed) is a modern, practical guide that will help you understand your blind spots, blocks, and fears so you can make choices that leave you happy and fulfilled. Full of real talk about attraction, dating, sex, frenemies, self-love, and more, this book will help you build and maintain strong connections and get what you really want in relationships, not what you think you should want.
Listen to Benson High School students read the original creative pieces they wrote in the WITS residencies that took place in their classrooms. Free and open to all.
Annie Bloom's welcomes these two wonderful Northwest poets. The Hardy Tree is Washington poet Linda Bierds's latest collection. Focusing on figures such as Thomas Hardy, Alan Turing, Virginia Woolf, and the World War One poets, The Hardy Tree examines power, oppression and individual rights in ways that reverberate through our lives today. Uniting these themes is the issue of communication--the various methods and codes we use to reach one another. The book is arranged in four sections. The first visits Vladimir Nabokov as a child with alphabet blocks, Alan Turing at eleven writing home from boarding school with a "pen of his own making," Virginia Woolf as a teenager practicing her penmanship, and Wilfred Owen trying to draw a musical note from a blade of…
From 1966-1967, Brian M. Biggs served a unique tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine Civic Action Officer, an assignment that included teaching English to elementary school teachers in the village of Hoà M? – a life-changing experience that developed cherished friendships which have lasted to this day. His three return trips to Vietnam in 2001, 2004, and 2006 allowed those friendships to flourish. Those visits also unraveled a mystery born out of the chaos and confusion that was the Vietnam War. A mystery that mistakenly cast him as a spy for the South Vietnamese government and brought to light the role he played in the fate of one of the teachers suspected of being Vietcong. Biggs’s Prove My Soul: Another Side to the…
Esmé Weijun Wang is a novelist and essayist. She is the author of the New York Times–bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias (2019), for which she won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her debut novel, The Border of Paradise, was called a Best Book of 2016 by NPR. She was named by Granta as one of the “Best Young American Novelists” in 2017 and won the Whiting Award in 2018. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, she lives in San Francisco. Esme Weijun Wang
We are thrilled to welcome Rene Denfeld to Books Around the Corner on January 16th at 6:30-7:30pm. Rene is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Enchanted, The Child Finder, and The Butterfly Girl. Rene will discuss The Child Finder and The Butterfly Girl with Stephanie Rose, former librarian and owner of Books Around the Corner. Page Turner Book Club attendees of The Child Finder and/or The Butterfly Girl will have priority. This will be an intimate event so attendance will be capped at 15 people. To RSVP please come in and order a copy of The Butterfly Girl and/or The Child Finder or if you've attended one of the two book clubs already please let us know you plan on attending. Bring your…
From her website (http://www.sossitywrites.com): "Sossity Chiricuzio is a queer femme outlaw poet, a working class crip storyteller. What her friends parents often referred to as a bad influence, and possibly still do." Join us, and her, as she reads from her memoir, Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw. Order your copy of her book in advance, here: https://www.tworiversbooks.com/book/9781786453716
Nicholas Buccola in Conversation with Tony Wolk, Discussing the Baldwin/Buckley Debate of 1965 Please join us at 7 pm on Thursday, January 16th, as we cap off our year-long celebration of James Baldwin with a conversation between Nicholas Buccola, author of the recently published book The Fire is Upon Us, and Tony Wolk, professor of literature at Portland State University. Buccola’s book focuses on the historic televised debate in 1965 between James Baldwin, civil rights firebrand, and William F. Buckley Jr., the father of modern conservatism. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro." The Fire is Upon Us tells the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to it, the controversies…
Night fog drives a young newsboy into a seedy saloon where his appearance catapults Sage Adair into a world of painful memories, child exploitation, and frantic searches for missing loved ones. In the eighth novel of S. L. Stoner’s historical mystery series, Bitter Cry(Yamhill), Sage and his colorful allies find collaboration to be the path to survival. What follows is a journey into the dark corners of Sage's own past and into a present that includes kidnapping, murder, and greed.
In his groundbreaking new work, Finding Meaning (Scribner), David Kessler – an expert on grief and coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving – journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning. Kessler argues that it’s finding meaning beyond the stages of grief most of us are familiar with – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – that can transform grief into a more peaceful and hopeful experience. Finding Meaning is a necessary addition to grief literature and a vital guide to healing from tremendous loss.
In the follow-up to Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave, award-winning illustrator Jessica Hische brings to life another series of inspirational words and scenes with her lovely hand lettering and adorable illustrations. Tomorrow I’ll Be Kind (Penguin Workshop) is an uplifting and positive book that encourages kids to promise that tomorrow, they will be grateful, helpful, and kind. This book is a reminder to all readers that the smallest kind gesture can make the biggest difference in the world.
Please join Friends of Mystery members and authors J. S. James and W. H. Cameron for an afternoon of readings from River Run and Crossroad, followed by conversations with the authors and book signings on Saturday, January 18th at 1:00 pm. The authors have won recognition for their work from writer’s organizations, including the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association, the UK’s Crime Writer’s Association the Spotted Owl Award and the Rocky Award. James was desperately spinning his writing wheels when he won the PNWA mystery/thriller competition and got the traction needed to finish his debut novel. He lives near Portland, Oregon with his family, including their “Velcro” Vizsla and furry red exercise machine, Maggie. He writes in a casino for atmosphere, and is hard at work…
Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, January 18th, we'll have a feature from Stephanie Strange and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Stephanie Strange Have you met Stephanie Strange? She IS an odd one. With one foot firmly planted in this world, and the other playing footsie beyond the veil, The Lady Strange has something to say. Some of these stories are her own, from a life of passion and missteps; and some of these stories were given to her from the animals, ghosts, and spirits who speak to her, to pass along to mankind, before it’s too late. Lessons and stories all, for a world full of lonely people who are…
SOLD OUT You are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of award-winning author Kim Taylor Blakemore's new historical mystery, The Companion. Publisher's Weekly calls it a "captivating tale of psychological suspense". Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. The reading and Q&A are free and open to the public, but due to seating limitations, please RSVP via this Eventbrite invite . Kim Taylor Blakemore is the author of the novels The Companion , Bowery Girl , and Cissy Funk . She has been honored with a Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award, a Willa Award for Best YA Fiction, and Regional Arts & Culture Council grants. Please visit her at kimtaylorblakemore.com
Sunday January 19th! Come out to @abigailhallpdx and see these great writers read original work and writing by women who have informed their craft! @radish_king @iamstillmelia @nataliegaryet @caitlin_delohery A monthly reading series in Abigail Hall honoring a lineage of women writers // Curated by @aamebel & @tyler.sowa
Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman) is a daring memoir by Caren Beilin about reproductive health and the IUD, gendered illness, medical gaslighting, and activism in the chronic illness community. Rhapsodic and unabashedly polemical, Beilin scrutinizes the literary, artistic, and medical history of rheumatoid arthritis, as she considers the copper IUD's role in triggering her sudden onset of chronic autoimmunity. Blackfishing the IUD is an argument that the copper IUD is sickening quite a lot of women – and that we listen first and foremost to women's testimony to begin to resolve it. Beilin will be joined in conversation by Maya Dusenbery, journalist, editor, and author of Doing Harm.
Annie Bloom's welcome's Mary Miller Doyle, to read from her late husband's essay collection, One Long River of Song. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever, Doyle's writing, which constantly evokes the humor and even bliss that life affords, is a balm. His essays…
Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories -- A Quarterly Reading Series We welcome feminist readers from across the gender spectrum and from every intersection sharing their written work in narrative tapestry. We hope to be antidepressant, hope-peddling, boundary-breaking, multicultural, and oriented towards action. Our January reading theme is Resistance. Doors at 6:30pm. **Suggested Donation at the door is $10 *** We value being able to pay our readers for their art and NO ONE EVER TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS!!! Our readers will be: Anya Pearson, Darlene Solomon-Rogers, Ashley Walker, Katherine Morgan, Rashida Quinn, Charlie-Char Michelle Westerly, Maya Litauer Chan, Anna Whiterock, and Zaji Cox Hosted by G. Ravyn Stanfield and Marissa Korbel, with special guest host Anya Pearson
To coolheaded, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, 40-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world – relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. In The Worst Kind of Want (MCD), Liska Jacobs…
Cat’s hacking skills weren’t enough to keep her from losing everything – her identity, her past, and now her freedom. She’s trapped and alone, but she’s survived this long, and she’s not giving up without a fight. Though the outbreak has been contained, a new threat has emerged – one that’s taken the world to the brink of a devastating war. With genetic technology that promises not just a cure for the plague, but a way to prevent death itself, both sides will stop at nothing to seize control of humanity’s future. Facing her most devastating enemy yet, Cat must race against the clock to protect her friends and save the lives of millions. This Vicious Cure (Simon Pulse) is the gripping finale to Emily…
Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to Montana after his father’s death to settle his affairs, and hopefully to settle the past as well. It’s not only a blank to him, but a mystery. Why as a teen did he suddenly become sullen and vacant, abandoning the activities and people that had meant most to him? Then on his first night back, Matthew sees a house go up in flames, and it turns out a local college student has died inside. And this event sparks a memory of a different fire, an unsolved crime from long ago, a part of Matthew’s past that might lead to all the answers he’s…
In preparation and anticipation of National Unpublished Manuscripts Day, we’re hosting readings from authors who are either entirely unpublished through traditional channels or who have manuscripts that have been submitted to and rejected by traditional channels. At Rose City Book Pub, we are gate openers, not gate keepers. Please also join us at the Clark County Historical Museum and the Brautigan Library of Unpublished Manuscripts on Saturday, January 25th between 11 am and 4 pm for the main event. The Book Pub has partnered with the museum and the library to provide a series of speakers on different ways of being published in the modern world, writing workshops, and other readerly and writerly activiites.
On Wednesday, January 22nd, from 7 to 8 pm, local author and writing instructor Joanna Rose leads a team of students and teachers from Grant High School reading from their own work on this high-energy night. We are consistently blown away by the talent and passion of these young people. Come see for yourself -- it's always one of the most fun nights in the store. Literary Arts’ Youth Programs reinforce the real world importance of reading and writing. They work with high-school-age students in schools and organizations throughout Portland, East Multnomah County, and Oregon. Their programs inspire students to find their voices and allow youth to be a part of the broader literary community. In particular, the Writers in the Schools program offers semester-long…
Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the NDA of a dodgy start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Meanwhile, a century ahead, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the Jackpot. His employer, Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice have become her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own…
Listen to Madison High School students read the original creative pieces they wrote in the WITS residencies that took place in their classrooms. Free and open to all.
Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets Emmett Wheatfall & John Sibley Williams. Emmett Wheatfall presents his latest poetry collection, Our Scarlet Blue Wounds. Wheatfall shows us how the roots of love grow deep in the soil of sacrifice. He illustrates the intensely complex relationship between idealism and realism. His poems hurt in just the right way. And it's no small feat opening one's own racial and cultural wounds for the world to see. It takes courage. It takes trust that a country will recognize itself, and its complicity, in those wounds. And Wheatfall trusts us to witness along with him. He proves himself ready and willing, even eager, to, as the titular poem in this collection demands, "build a new world" together. John Sibley Williams's latest…
Marzana and her best friend are bored. Even though they live in a notorious city where normal rules do not apply, nothing interesting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana’s parents are recruited to help solve an odd crime, and she realizes that this could be the excitement she’s been waiting for. She assembles a group of kid detectives with special skills and together, they explore hidden passageways, navigate architecture that changes overnight, and try to unravel the puzzle of who the kidnappers are. But will they beat the deadline for a ransom that’s impossible to pay? The Thief Knot (Clarion) is the new standalone middle reader mystery set in the world of the Greenglass House, from National Book Award nominee and Edgar…
In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" – the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker – offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of 26 enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to call the "race of aces" as a way of boosting the spirits of his war-weary command. What developed was a wild three-year sprint for fame and glory, and the chance to be called America's greatest fighter pilot. Based on new research, John R. Bruning's Race of Aces (Hachette) tells the story of how five American pilots contended for personal glory in the Pacific while leading Kenney's resurgent air force against the…
In preparation and anticipation of National Unpublished Manuscripts Day, we’re hosting readings from authors who are either entirely unpublished through traditional channels or who have manuscripts that have been submitted to and rejected by traditional channels. At Rose City Book Pub, we are gate openers, not gate keepers. Please also join us at the Clark County Historical Museum and the Brautigan Library of Unpublished Manuscripts on Saturday, January 25th between 11 am and 4 pm for the main event. The Book Pub has partnered with the museum and the library to provide a series of speakers on different ways of being published in the modern world, writing workshops, and other readerly and writerly activiites.
In the Dream House (Graywolf) is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope, through which Machado examines the past from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado…
Daniel J. Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, turns his keen mind to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and what you can do to make the most of your 70s, 80s, and 90s today. Successful Aging (Dutton) uses research from developmental neuroscience and psychology to show that 60+ years is a unique developmental stage that has its own demands and advantages. Levitin takes a scientific approach to what we all can learn from those who age joyously, as well as how to adapt our culture to take full advantage of older people’s wisdom and experience.
Modern astrology isn’t about passively accepting our fate, it’s about action, and beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas shows you how to bring this life-changing practice into your life and embrace self-empowerment, intentionality, and spirituality. Nicholas encourages her devotees to take control – to confront themselves, their desires, and their needs – to fulfill their potential using the power of the stars. Written in her lyrical, cool-girl, feminist style, You Were Born for This (HarperOne) explains how knowing your star signs and what they mean for your individual character can be revelatory. Nicholas will be joined in conversation by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Brave Enough.
Join us Saturday, January 25th for the fourth dose of literary salve in the form of a reading. .:LOOP:. is a quarterly reading series created and produced by our bad ass Corporeal Captain, and center manager, Domi Shoemaker. Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Avenue, suite 101 Portland, Or. 97204 5-8pm And the lineup is: Daniel Elder Alex Behr Michelle Goodman Evan Knapp Signe Land Juliana O'C Sage Schick Lidia Yuknavitch
Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday January 25th, we'll have a feature from Robert Lashley, mini-features from Sam Preminger & David Paz-Mendoza, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Robert Lashley A 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award, Robert Lashley has had poems published in such journals as Feminete, Seattle Review of Books, NAILED, Gramma, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and The Cascadia Review. His work was also featured in Many Trails to the Summit , an anthology of Northwest form and lyric poetry, and It Was Written, an anthology of poetry inspired by hip hop. His full-length books include THE HOMEBOY SONGS (Small…
We have a bill full of poets this time. Dan Raphael returns to the Hour to shock and delight again. We got Casey Bush, my old pal from the Irradiated Poets, who needs little introduction. We got Morgan Paige Hutchinson, a jewel in the show's poetic crown this time and a long-awaited addition to our bill of ferocious talent. Amy Leona Havin also returns to us with new material following up on the breathless wonderment of 'Shakti.' :D Two writers, just to change it up: From my pal Garrett Cook's writing workshop, newcomer John Madson brings us his a-game set. And your humble MC will be performing, "Beast: A Fable For Children" from the charity anthology NIGHTMARES IN YELLOW which I will discuss on the…
Law scholar and Witness to Guantanamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll, not only on the detainees and their loved ones, but also on its military and civilian personnel and the journalists who reported on it. Honigsberg conducted 158 interviews across 20 countries so that the people who lived and worked there could tell their heartbreaking and inspirational stories. In startling, aching prose, A Place Outside the Law (Beacon) shines a light on these unheard voices, and through them, encourages the global community to embrace humanity as our greatest tool to make the world a safer place.
In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are – intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind (Simon & Schuster), PETA founder and president Ingrid Newkirk presents these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries. Animalkind is a fascinating study of why our fellow beings deserve our respect and the steps we can take to put this new understanding into action.
Rene Denfeld and Kimberly King Parson, in Conversation We are thrilled to welcome Portland authors Rene Denfeld and Kimberly King Parsons to discuss their most recent books, The Butterfly Girl and Black Light, respectively. The authors will each read and then discuss writing, individual life experiences and influences, and the publishing process, as well as take questions from the audience. Rene Denfeld is the author of the acclaimed novels The Enchanted, The Child Finder, and The Butterfly Girl. After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi--the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns in The Butterfly Girl. In addition to being an internationally bestselling author, Denfeld has also worked as a journalist and licensed investigator. She lives in Portland, where she is the…
In Make Noise (Workman), veteran podcast creator and strategist Eric Nuzum distills a career’s worth of wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking to help podcasters “make noise” – to stand out in this fastest of fastest-growing media universes. Nuzum identifies core principles, including what he considers the key to successful audio storytelling: learning to think the way your audience listens. He delivers essential how-tos, from conducting an effective interview to marketing your podcast, developing your audience, and managing a creative team. He also taps into his deep network to offer advice from audio stars like Ira Glass, Terry Gross, and Anna Sale. Nuzum will be joined in conversation by Chuck Klosterman, author of Raised in Captivity.
Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland author Marcy Houle. A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon offers profiles of twenty-one conservationists and activists who have made enduring contributions to the preservation of Oregon’s wild and natural places and its high quality of life. These stories speak to their courage, foresight, and actions—at times against great odds—to save places, enact legislation, and motivate others to cherish and protect the places that make Oregon unique. These stories do more than educate. They will inspire readers and demonstrate that individually we can make a difference. They underscore that the natural wonders of our state should be guarded and not taken for granted. In these times of unsettled political polarization and divisiveness, A Generous Nature is a crucial reminder of…
Hand2Mouth Theatre and OJMCHE present a theatrically staged reading of The Berlin Diaries, by Andrea Stolowitz, finalist for the 2017 Oregon Book Award. Performers are Erin Leddy and Damon Kupper, Directed by Hand2Mouth's Artistic Director Jonathan Walters. The great-grandfather of playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost, like library books? In this complex, contemporary drama about the search for home, fragmented heritage and Jewish diaspora, two performers scintillate between characters…
Evie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of weed, Winter Wonderland. Although her father raised her with a deep respect for the elements, the sea, and the creatures living within it, he also left her to parent herself. With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures (Algonquin) probes the complexities of love and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief – and the ways in which our childhoods can threaten our ability to love if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. Lyrical, darkly funny, and ultimately cathartic, Crissy Van Meter’s mesmerizing, provocative debut exerts a pull as strong as the tides. Van Meter will be joined in conversation…
The Pacific Northwest is home to a Tardis-Full of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers, a fact celebrated every quarter with the Pacific Northwest Reading Series. These free quarterly events provide the Northwest Science Fiction and Fantasy community a chance to gather, network and enjoy readings from local and visiting authors in Portland and Seattle. Each event features three authors who read from their latest work, interpreting and explaining their concepts and vision. In addition, space is provided for networking and conversation. Booksellers will be on hand with fresh copies of the authors’ books for you to buy and get autographed. Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as How to…
Annie Bloom's welcomes Northwest authors Rachel Carter & Sarah Coomber. How do you live when all you can feel is pain? The best word to describe Rachel Carter’s life was “fearless.” She rode a motorcycle in high school, she worked in a cannery in Alaska at 20, and then backpacked solo through Europe. When she finally “settled down,” she married Josh and pursued a career in sales. She lived a picture-perfect life—then Multiple Sclerosis caught up with her. After two years of rapid decline, Rachel found herself lying on the floor, writhing in agony, hoping to die. In Enduring the Cure, Rachel Carter shares how she overcame her struggle with the debilitating disease. It’s a story of pain, decline, an experimental treatment, and healing. But…
Corrib Theatre will give a sneak preview of their upcoming play James X by Gerard Mannix Flynn, which plays February 13 – March 1, 2020 at New Expressive Works (corribtheatre.org) Plaintiff James X confronts the defendants, Church and State, for injustices they perpetrated throughout his childhood. While awaiting his trial, James examines his confidential state files compiled over the previous 45 years, and takes us on a journey through the schools, courts, health boards, industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals, and prisons. Artistic Director Gemma Whelan will introduce the play, actor Todd Van Voris will read a short scene, and then Gemma , Todd and special guest Rene Denfeld will discuss issues raised by the play and invite questions and comments from the audience.
Jackie Shannon Hollis in Conversation with Annilee Durfey Hyre We are pleased to welcome Portland author Jackie Shannon Hollis to read from her new memoir, This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story, published by Forest Avenue Press. Joining Hollis in conversation will be her niece, Annilee Durfey Hyer, to discuss the many ways of being a parent and mentor to the children in our lives. As a farm girl in eastern Oregon, feeding bottles to bummer lambs and babysitting her little sister, Hollis expected to become a mother someday. After a series of failed relationships, she met Bill, the man she wanted to spend her life with--a man who never wanted children. Saying “I do” meant saying “I don't” to a rite of passage her…
With luminous insight and fervent prose, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now (Two Dollar Radio), travels from Washington, DC, to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions while coming of age in America. Perry’s essays take the form of personal reflection, multiple choice questions, screenplays, and imagined talk-show conversations, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling, announcing his arrival as a formidable American voice.
Montana, 1968: The small town of Paradise Valley is ripped open when popular rancher and notorious bachelor Tom Butcher is found murdered one morning, beaten to death by a baseball bat. Suspicion among the tight-knit community immediately falls on the outsider, Carl Logan, who recently moved in with his family, and his troubled son Roger. What Carl doesn't realize is that there are plenty of people who have reason to kill Tom Butcher. Complications arise when the investigating officers discover that Tom Butcher had a secret – a secret he kept even from Junior Kirby, a lifelong rancher and Butcher’s best friend. As accusations fly and secrets are revealed one after another, the people of Paradise Valley learn how deeply Tom Butcher was embedded in…
Please note this event (and the remainder of Cummins’s tour) has been cancelled by her publisher. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy – two of them her favorites. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s…
Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, February 1st, we'll have a feature from DeAngelo Gillispie and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Red O'Hare! OUR FEATURE: DeAngelo Gillispie DeAngelo Gillispie, hails from Atlanta, Georgia and currently works as a professional stuntman in Hillsboro, Or. He has been a part of the spoken word community for over a decade. He currently performs his own stunts at spoken word venues around the country as well as internationally. DeAngelo was first published at 19 years old & has been bothering the general public with his thoughts ever since. He enjoys johnnie walker scotch & long debates on haiku…
Join us at Corporeal Writing for a phenomenal reading with Melissa Febos. Doors open at 6pm. Reading begins at 6:30pm Stay and mingle for a bit and book signings afterward until 7:30pm. Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), and the essay collection, Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, a Publishing Triangle Award finalist, an Indie Next Pick, and was widely named a Best Book of 2017. Her third book, Girlhood, is forthcoming in 2020. Febos is the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary and the recipient of the 2017 Sarah Verdone Writing Award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell…
Lilla presents our Winter reading in the Fireplace Room of the Manor House at Leach Botanical Garden. The evening’s theme: Thirst. Featuring Jason Arias, Liz Asch Greenhill, Chelsea Biondolillo, Katie Grindeland, Mary Rechner, Armin Tolentino, and John Sibley Williams. Doors open at 4 PM; readings begin at 4:15 $10 suggested donation at the door Proceeds benefit Leach Botanical Garden, a 501(c)3 nonprofit As always: Wine, snacks, gorgeous surroundings, literary community aplenty Follow Lilla on social media, including Facebook, for more info See you there!
The Voice of Empathy continues at thetinytheaterPDX, 3306 SE 65th Ave, Portland, OR. Please spread out the parking around the neighborhood to avoid congestion. The series showcases poets whose work investigates the human capacity for compassion and generosity and invites the reader/listener to care deeply for others and the world. This description is for the poets’ reference only and does not presume to impose any constraints on the work selected for presentation. There is room for 37-39 poetry lovers. Please come a few minutes in advance to reserve your seats. In case of snow, please monitor this event for possible rescheduling. Jennifer Richter's two poetry collections have both been named Oregon Book Award Finalists: her second book, No Acute Distress, was chosen by Major Jackson;…