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In-Store Reading: Bill Lascher: The Golden Fortress

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Bill Lascher for the in-store launch of his new book, The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Seating is limited. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. Signed and personalized copies are available for pre-order! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; all orders without a name specified in the order notes will be signed only. About The Golden Fortress: In February 1936, Los Angeles police officers drove hundreds of miles to California’s state borders with one mission: turn back anyone deemed too poor to enter. Myths of the Golden State’s abundance…

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In-Person Reading: Liz Prato and Yuvi Zalkow

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland authors Liz Prato and Yuvi Zalkow to read from their new books, Prato's essay collection Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning and Zalkow's novel I Only Cry with Emoticons. They will be in conversation with Jackie Shannon Hollis, author of the memoir This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story. Signed and personalized copies of both authors' books are available! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; all orders without a name specified in the order notes will be signed only. About Kids in America: Generation X was born between the legions of Baby Boomers and Millennials, and was all but written off as cynical, sarcastic slackers. Yet, Gen X's impact on culture and society…

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In-Store Reading: Lara Messersmith-Glavin: Spirit Things

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Lara Messersmith-Glavin for an in-store reading from her essay collection, Spirit Things. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. Signed and personalized copies are available for pre-order! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; all orders without a name specified in the order notes will be signed only. About Spirit Things: A collection of essays that evoke an adventurous spirit and the craving for myth, Spirit Things examines the hidden meanings of objects found on a fishing boat, as seen through the eyes of a child. Author Lara Messersmith-Glavin blends memoir, mythology, and science as…

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In-Store Poetry Reading: A. Molotkov and Susan Leslie Moore

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets A. Molotkov and Susan Leslie Moore for an in-store reading from their latest collections. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Seating is limited. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. Signed and personalized copies of both poets' books are available! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; all orders without a name specified in the order notes will be signed only. About Future Symptoms: In this stirring collection of poetry, A. Molotkov considers a country on the brink of collapse, plagued by virus and violence, haunted by history, asking of himself––and us-––'How do I move / with my love / caught…

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Jennifer Reimer and Connie Soper

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon poets Jennifer Reimer and Connie Soper, whose new collections are published by Airlie Press. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. Signed and personalized copies of both authors' books are available for pre-order! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; or indicate "signed only." About Keşke: Poems that join the ancient and the modern to the intense lyric experience of self-discovery. Wistful memory, future longing, nostalgia for unrealized possibilities, Keşke joins the ancient and the modern to the intense lyric experience of self-discovery. Watery scenes rewrite Homeric myth with a feminist eye while verses unfold inner…

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Kristin Berger, Cathy Cain, John Miller

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland area poets Kristin Berger, Cathy Cain, and John Miller for an in-store reading from their new collections, all published by local press The Poetry Box. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading.   About Earthwork: The poetry of Kristin Berger's Earthwork is centered around, sprung from, and located in the landscape of mothering during the increasingly mapless territory of climate change and the pandemic. These are poems that take careful care of the small wonders of childhood and parenthood against such large and looming realities; poems that never stray away from wide-eyed honesty, taking in grief, joy, memory, and the strangeness of…

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In-Store Reading: Marianne Monson: The Opera Sisters

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Oregon author Marianne Monson for an in-person reading from her new novel, The Opera Sisters. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. Signed and personalized copies are available for order! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; or indicate "signed only." About The Opera Sisters: Based on the true story of the Cook sisters, who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England. British sisters Ida and Louise Cook enjoy their quiet, unassuming lives in south London. Ida writes romance…

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In-Store Reading: Michelle Ruiz Keil: Summer in the City of Roses

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Michelle Ruiz Keil for a reading from the paperback release of her novel Summer in the City of Roses. About Summer in the City of Roses: Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale "Brother and Sister," Michelle Ruiz Keil's second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early '90s Portland. All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it’s time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When their father brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been…

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Donna Henderson and Charles Goodrich

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets Donna Henderson and Charles Goodrich to read from their new collections. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. About Send Word: To be born is to 'cleave,' in the double sense of the word (to 'split from' and to 'cling to'): it is that first splitting which generates the urge to return, to bind. The poems in Donna Henderson's Send Word explore varieties of cleaving and their tensions, as the speaker navigates these across a lifetime: tensions between our feral and civil selves, between compliance and transgression, between connection and individuation, between containment and surrender, and between what the worlds…

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In-Store Reading: Cai Emmons, Yuvi Zalkow, Kate Gale

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon author Cai Emmons who is presenting her new novel, Livid, published by Red Hen Press. The author Whitney Otto will be a stand-in reader for Cai, whose ALS precludes public speaking. They will be joined by fellow Red Hen author Yuvi Zalkow, whose new novel is I Only Cry with Emoticons, and Red Hen co-founder Kate Gale, whose new poetry collection is The Loneliest Girl. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. About Livid: Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. Summoned to jury duty,…

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