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In His Own Words: A Tribute to Brian Doyle

McMenamins Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR, United States

Doors open at 5:00 p.m. for drinks and snacks! Join Orion editor Chip Blake, The Sun editor Sy Safransky, and authors, critics, and teachers from around the country who will read from Brian Doyle's work. Readers include (in alphabetical order): Robin Cody, David James Duncan, John Freeman, Jourdan Imani Keith, Michael N. McGregor, Brenda Miller, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Kim Stafford, and Joe Wilkins. Contact: Orion and The Sun

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Animals with Freeman’s

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Three contributors from the new Freeman’s annual—Tess Gunty (The Rabbit Hutch), Debra Gwartney (I Am a Stranger Here Myself), and Sasha LaPointe (Red Paint)—discuss their work with editor John Freeman. More about Freeman’s: Animals Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds sauntered on, unphased, then “stretched amazed and singly march into the imaginary.” This encounter—so strange, so typical of flamingos, with their fabulous posture—is also still typical of how we interact with animals. Even as our actions threaten their very survival, they are still symbolic, captivating and captive, caught in a drama of our framing This issue of Freeman’s tells…

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