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Poets of Finishing Line Press

Black Hat Books 2831 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Fourteen poets recently published by Finishing Line Press and living in the Pacific Northwest will read snippets of their work. There will be wine and snacks. Readers include Heidi Seaborn, Douglas Cole, Kristin Berger, Julene T. Weaver, Don Colburn, Suzanne Sigafoos, Brittney Corrigan, Dawn Marar, Joe Soldati, Dianne Stepp, Judith Montgomery, MaryAnn L. Miller, Leanne Grabel, and J.D. Smith. Contact: Leanne Grabel

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Poetry Reading: Judith Montgomery and Carol Barrett

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

In Mercy, local poet Judith Montgomery chronicles the story of caring for her husband as he endures cancer treatment. Though brutal in its technology, the medical world Montgomery describes is merciful in its human form, peopled by chemotherapy nurses whose expertise is matched by mercy, as they "lift the plumped / sac, poisons mixed to pour fire into flesh." Anyone who has had even the least brush with cancer will find here an honest and hopeful world, where suffering is lightened by the sight of butterflies, "mutable flames that glide as we-- / refugees from the cancer center, / and stunned by treatment-- / ... glide in luxurious / light, afloat in paradise." Pansies, Oregon poet Carol Barrett's collection of thirty slight, delicate vignettes, recounts…

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Windfall Reading: Susan Leslie Moore and Judith Montgomery

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join Lane Literary Guild and Eugene Public Library for a livestream of the Windfall Reading Series, a monthly gathering highlighting local and regional writers. This month, poets Susan Leslie Moore and Judith Montgomery will read and take questions online. Susan Leslie Moore’s poetry has appeared widely, including in Best American Poetry 2020, The New York Times Magazine, New York Quarterly, and Poetry Northwest. She edited the online magazine Caffeine Destiny for 13 years, and is one of the editors of the anthology Alive At The Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest. A winner of a Juniper Prize in Poetry, her first full-length collection is That Place Where You Opened Your Hands. Moore lives in Portland and serves as Director of Programs for Writers at…

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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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