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Family Poetry Circle

Multnomah County Library - Holgate Library 7905 SE Holgate Boulevard, Portland

Bring the whole family for a celebration of poetry during National Poetry Month. Local poets will read poems geared toward both adults and children. Take home a poem to learn by heart together! About the poets: Melissa Reeser Poulin writes poems and essays. Her new chapbook, Rupture, Light (Finishing Line Press 2019) is a collection of poems about motherhood and growth. More at https://melissareeserpoulin.com. Caitlin Dwyer is a writer from Portland. Her poetry has appeared in Talking River, the Notre Dame Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Quiddity, Thrush, and others. She writes poetry, literary journalism, essays, and occasionally science fiction. First come, first served. View this event on our website: https://multcolib.org/events/family-poetry-circle/99690

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Kate Ristau presents Clockbreakers Two: Morrigan’s Revenge

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Portland author Kate Ristau presents Morrigan's Revenge, the sequel to her Middle Grade debut, Clockbreakers. Charlie's dad is gone, and she's on a magic adventure to get him back! But first – fifth grade. She rolls her wheelchair into her classroom and then straight into an Ancient Irish battle. But this is not the time travel she expected. Betrayed by her friends, Charlie faces the wrath of the goddess, Morrigan, and the warriors think she is one of the fairies. Can Cuchulain -- the hero of Irish folklore -- help? Or will she be trapped back in an ancient myth forever?

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Michio Kaku

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

Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility – and a necessity. In The Future of Humanity (Anchor), world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, Kaku takes readers on an exhilarating and inspiring journey to a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its long-awaited destiny among the stars.

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Tim Johnston

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

In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community’s memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river 10 years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and “unforgettable” by critics, returns with The Current (Algonquin), a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people.

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Wendy Willis and David Biespiel

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland

Wendy Willis is a poet and essayist from Portland, Oregon. She is also the Founder and Director of Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a program of the National Policy Consensus Center (in the Hatfield School of Government) at Portland State University and the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, a global network of organizations and leading scholars working in the field of deliberation and public engagement. Her next book of essays, These are Strange Times, My Dear, was released in February. Her last book of poems, A Long Late Pledge, is a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Award. David Biespiel is the author of eleven books, including Republic Café, published in 2019, The Education of a Young Poet, which was selected a Best Books for…

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