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The Two Judiths — A Reading of New Poetry

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

From Mother Foucault's Bookshop's website: Please join us Friday, October 26 for a reading of new poetry with “The Two Judiths,” Judith Barrington, and Judith H. Montgomery. Judith Barrington’s fifth collection of poetry, Long Love: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) was published this June.  She is also the author of The Conversation (2015), whose title poem was the winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International poetry award. Judith is also the author of the prizewinning Lifesaving: A Memoir, and the best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art. She has been a faculty member of the University of Alaska, Anchorage’s MFA Program and teaches workshops around the U.S. and in Britain. Judith (Judy) H. Montgomery lives with her husband in Bend, Oregon. Her poems appear in the Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, and Tahoma Literary…

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The Two Judiths — A Reading of New Poetry

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us Friday, March 15 for a reading of new poetry with “The Two Judiths,” Judith Barrington, and Judith H. Montgomery. Judith Barrington’s fifth collection of poetry, Long Love: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) was published this June.  She is also the author of The Conversation (2015), whose title poem was the winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International poetry award. Judith is also the author of the prizewinning Lifesaving: A Memoir, and the best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art. She has been a faculty member of the University of Alaska, Anchorage’s MFA Program and teaches workshops around the U.S. and in Britain. Judith (Judy) H. Montgomery lives with her husband in Bend, Oregon. Her poems appear in the Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, and Tahoma Literary Review, among other journals, as…

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Judith Montgomery and E. Ivy Ross Ricci

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

We are thrilled to welcome two poets to the store, one debuting her first collection and one returning with her fourth: E. Ivy Ross Ricci and Judith H. Montgomery. Ivy Ross Ricci is a musician, writer, educator, and activist based in Port Angeles, Washington, who lived for many years in Portland. Her debut collection of poetry, The Force of Gravity, is playful and profound, an honest portrait of a growing writer surrounded by the intoxicating buzz of 24-hour poetry. Since 1996, Ricci has been recognized for her contributions and leadership in the fields of girls’ empowerment, literacy, public art, women’s health, juvenile justice & youth advocacy, music education, teen peer leadership training, implementation of anti-bias curricula, and creative after-school programming. Her original songs exude gumption,…

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Dianne Stepp and Judith Montgomery

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

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets Dianne Stepp and Judith Montgomery for an in-store reading from their latest collections. About The Nest's Dark Eye: Some traditions believe a grieving woman-given her vulnerability, given the boundless expanse of her sorrow-stands at the spirit world's threshold. Grief gives her a kind of holiness, a sacred compassion and perception. Dianne Stepp's voice possesses such a power. Her poems are finely crafted, deeply musical lamentations for her son who committed suicide. Her poems are grateful paeans to the natural world's bounty and grace. A poet-mother trying to fathom her son's final, devastating actions, she's "craning to see, twisting / to search the shape / of his death." The Nest's Dark Eye offers us sorrow's keen insight, its fraught and luminous…

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