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Marathon reading of Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day is an "epic poem about a daily routine" (Alice Notley) written in a single day on the winter solstice in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts. On the 40th anniversary of its composition, we'll read the whole book aloud. Listeners are welcome to come and go at will, or stay for the full reading which should take about three hours. Similar events are scheduled around the country on the same day; for a full listing see Becca Klaver's Midwinter Day at 40 page. The readers (in approximate order of appearance) are David Abel, Sam Lohmann, Jen Coleman, Linda Austin, John Beer, Marilyn Stablein, Laura Feldman, Tom DeBeauchamp, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Jesse Morse, Jen Denrow, Bronwen Tate, Emily Kendal Frey, Rodney Koeneke, Seann McCollum,…

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A Marathon Reading of Ronald Johnson’s ARK

Chris Ashby's Apartment 615 SE 18th Avenue, Apt. 1 (not A), Portland, OR, United States

Each winter, the Spare Room reading series hosts a marathon reading of a long work. In 2020 we’ll be reading Ronald Johnson’s long poem ARK, which was written over about 25 years and published in sections between 1980 and 1996 (and reprinted in 2013 by Flood Editions). Guy Davenport wrote: "ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them." Free.…

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