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Celebrating 45 Years of Mountain Writers Series

Hotel Rose 50 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrating 45 years of serving the literary community -- In March 2019, Mountain Writers Series will host an off-site event, free and open to the public, during the annual AWP Conference in Portland Oregon. This event will celebrate 45 years of programming and serving the literary community in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Scheduled Thursday, March 28, 2019, from 11:00 AM until 10:00 PM at the Hotel Rose in downtown Portland, dozens of Mountain Writers Series' alumni poets and writers will pay tribute to a long list of those no longer with us and present as well some of their own work; they are listed below. Others will be listed, along with a complete schedule of times of presentations, as they are confirmed. Poet/Writer paying tribute to:…

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Carlos Reyes and Christopher Howell

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

We are pleased to welcome Christopher Howell and Carlos Reyes reading from their new collections of poems. In Christopher Howell's twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. The Grief of a Happy Life explores the interplay between memory and imagination, celebrating the ways that happiness and grief inform one another and give our lives fullness and vitality. Arranged in four sections, Howell's poems feature not only these concerns, but a large and various cast of characters. Woven together with Howell's trademark precision and accessibility into exquisite tableaux, each provides a view of we must live with and what we must not live without. Born in Portland, Christopher Howell is the author of a dozen poetry collections, including…

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Christopher Howell Poetry Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Christopher Howell's poetry reading will be livestreamed on December 8, 2021 on the Ledding Library YouTube Channel. (link is external) Born in Portland, Oregon, Christopher Howell attended Pacific Lutheran University from 1963 to ’66. After service as a military journalist during the Viet Nam war, he received graduate degrees from Portland State University and the University of Massachusetts. He is author of twelve collections of poems, most recently The Grief of a Happy Life (U. Washington Press, 2019), Love’s Last Number and Gaze (both from Milkweed Editions), and Dreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected (UW Press, 2010). He has received the Washington State Governor’s Award, the Washington State Book Award, two fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, two from the Artist Trust, and a number of…

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