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Amy Orazio and Omar Pimienta Reading

Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238 1825 SW Broadway, Portland

The PSU Creative Writing Program presents a reading by Amy Orazio and Omar Pimienta. Amy Orazio's work has appeared in Gap Tooth, Pidgeonholes, Chaparral, Timber Journal, Ruminate Magazine, The Curator and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, called Quench, (CW Books), is available now. Amy lives in the uncool part of Portland with her husband and two tiny sons.           Omar Pimienta is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity, trans-nationality, emergency poetics, landscape, and memory. He received his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 2010 and he is currently part of the Ph.D program in Literature of…

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Polly Rosenwaike in Conversation With Leni Zumas

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

The women in Polly Rosenwaike’s debut story collection, Look How Happy I’m Making You (Doubleday), want to be mothers, or aren’t sure they want to be mothers, or – having recently given birth – are overwhelmed by what they’ve wrought. Sharp and unsettling, wry and moving in its depiction of love, friendship, and family, this collection expands the conversation about what having a baby looks like. Rosenwaike will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.

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The Feminine Revolution

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

Challenging old and outdated perceptions that feminine traits are weaknesses, Amy Stanton’s The Feminine Revolution (cowritten with Catherine Connors) (Seal) revisits those characteristics to show how they are powerful assets that should be embraced rather than maligned. It argues that feminine traits have been mischaracterized as weak, fragile, diminutive, and embittered for too long, and offers a call to arms to redeem them as the superpowers and gifts that they are. With an upbeat blend of self-help and fresh analysis, The Feminine Revolution reboots femininity for the modern woman.

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