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Windfall

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

From Broadway Books's website: Broadway Books celebrates the fall 2018 issue of Windfall magazine with a reading by four northwest poets represented in the issue. Reading at the store on Tuesday, October 16th, at 7 pm will be Emily Antonia Fox Garcia, Andrea Hollander, Tim Raphael, and Lex Runciman, as well as the journal's co-editors Michael McDowell and Bill Siverly. Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place features poetry which captures the spirit of place as part of the essence of the poem. The journal particularly emphasizes poetry written in the Pacific Northwest that is attentive to the relationships between people and the landscapes in which we live. It has been published since 2002.

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Barbara Drake and Andrea Hollander

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

From Broadway Books's website: We welcome two esteemed poets to the store on Thursday, November 8th, to read from their latest collections: Barbara Drake reading from The Road to Lilac Hill: Poems of Time, Place, and Memory (published by Windfall Press) and Andrea Hollander reading from Blue Mistaken for Sky (published by Autumn House Press). They will also be reading some poems from the posthumous collection by Ursula K. Le Guin: So Far So Good, published by Copper Canyon Press. Barbara Drake moved to Oregon as a small child with her parents, growing up in Coos Bay. She earned her BA and MFA degrees from the University of Oregon. As an adult she lived in Michigan for several years, teaching and writing, and returned to…

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Suzanne Matson + Andrea Hollander

Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 333 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon, United States

PSU's Creative Writing Program presents a reading by Suzanne Matson and Andrea Hollander. This reading takes place at Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 333. Suzanne Matson’s new novel, Ultraviolet, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was included in Real Simple's roundup of “The Best Books of 2018.” Her first novel, The Hunger Moon, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her third, The Tree-Sitter, was short-listed for the PEN New England/ L. L. Winship Award. She has published two poetry collections with Alice James Books, and received writing fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Matson studied at Portland State University and the University of Washington. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, and teaches at Boston College.…

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Monthly Poetry – Andrea Hollander, Paulann Petersen, Chrys Tobey

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our monthly last-Thursday poetry reading! This month we have work from Andrea Hollander, Paulann Petersen, and Chrys Tobey. Blue Mistaken for Sky, Hollander’s fifth full-length poetry collection, reads like a memoir in verse. It explores a mature woman’s life after divorce. The poems are unselfconscious, and they detail with grace the pleasures and difficulties of aging and the evolution of personal relationships through a life. One Small Sun, by Paulann Petersen, takes readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a Hyderabadi shrine in India’s subcontinent. Its pages contain a meditation on post-mortem photographs, an ode to the female earwig, an elegy for a grandmother’s panache. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry’s ability to bring alive again what is coded into…

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Andrea Hollander

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Andrea Hollander Hosted by Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige 7 pm Thursday, July 8 On Zoom $5 Suggested donation LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY, PRO-SCIENCE, ANTI-FASCIST, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004 Please support Niche Wine Bar, whose owner, Leah Jackson, provided a home for the reading series from 2015-2020: https://nichewinebar.com/ Andrea Hollander moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2011, after living for more than three decades in the Arkansas Ozarks, where she was innkeeper of a bed & breakfast for 15 years and the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College for 22. Hollander’s 5th full-length poetry collection was a finalist for the Best Book Award in Poetry from the American Book Fest; her 4th was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; her 1st…

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