Orpheus 2019 Night Three
Fort Vancouver High School 5700 East 18th Street, VancouverFeatured Writers: Shannon Brazil, Daria Eckhardt Eliuk, Aaron Gilbreath, Sophia Shalmiyev, Kristi Straight
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Readings
Poetry Reading: Tess Gallagher and Paulann Petersen
Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, PortlandAnnie Bloom's welcomes two wonderful poets, Tess Gallagher and Paulann Petersen, for a joint reading from their latest collections. Tess Gallagher's new collection, Is, Is Not, upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovers daringly at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Tess Gallagher’s poems reverberate with the inward clarity of a bell struck on a mountaintop. Guided by humor, grace, and a deep inquiry into the natural world, every poem nudges us toward moments of awe. How else except by delight and velocity would we discover the miracle within the ordinary? Gallagher claims many Wests—the Northwest of America, the Northwest of Ireland, and a West even…
Free
Pico Iyer
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, PortlandFor years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, have a small home. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying. In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, this question is more urgent than anywhere else. Iyer’s Autumn Light (Knopf) is a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture, and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.
Free
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