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A Poetry Reading by Rosalie Moffett

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, (Ecco/Harper Collins) winner of the National Poetry Series. She is also the author of June in Eden (Ohio State University Press). She has been awarded the “Discovery”/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets. She is a professor at the University of Southern Indiana.

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A Nonfiction Reading by Mohamed Asem

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

Mohamed Asem - July, 2016: Three days after the terror attack on Bastille Day, Mohamed Asem is detained overnight by British immigration officials without cause. In an elegantly digressive, self-interrogative style, Asem describes the boredom and uncertainty of confinement, and how this specific kind of helplessness leads, inevitably, to a self-reckoning. What series of events has led to this moment? Stranger in the Pen examines the burden of being disconnected from one’s homeland, unpacks the emotional toll of racial profiling, and illuminates the quietly surprising ways in which grief can change one’s life. Asem will appear in conversation with his publisher, Michael Heald, of Perfect Day Publishing.

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English Alumni Reading: Fiction and Nonfiction

William Aime (’15) David Kroman (’11) return to campus reading from the work they’ve done since graduation. Both Aime and Kroman have had some success – in different ways – in the writing world. They will talk about paying the bills, being newly graduated, and keeping the writing flame going, long after the spark of undergraduate classes has dimmed away. Location: Miller Hall, Room 102

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A Poetry Reading by Nikky Finney

Lewis & Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea.  A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amista murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Finney has authored four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (2011); The World Is Round (2003); Rice (1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). The John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature at the University of South Carolina, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split was awarded the 2011 National…

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CANCELED – A Poetry Reading by Rachel Zucker

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

Rachel Zucker is the author of ten books, including, most recently, SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019). A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Colony and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Zucker is an adjunct professor at New York University and the founder and host of the podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People). Zucker is currently working on an immersive audio project (also called SoundMachine) and a book of lectures calledThe Poetics of Wrongness. Location: Frank Manor House

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The 2020 Brazilian Literary Spring in the U.S.

Lewis & Clark - Gregg Pavilion 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

The Printemps Littéraire Brésilien is part of a research and educational initiative that is also aims to promote Lusophone literatures around the World. This annual colloquium was originally idealized by professor Leonardo Tonus (Sorbonne Université) to promote and to expand the training of students in institutions of higher education. Since its inception in 2014, the event has become an important space for debates on Brazilian literature, fomenting new readings and enriching experiences around the Portuguese language. In the 2020 U.S. edition, readings and panels will take place in several cities across the country between February 16th and April 16th. The event is organized in partnership with universities and cultural organizations: Columbia University, Brown University, Indiana University, University of New Mexico, University of Washighton, Oregon Center…

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A Discussion with Janet McAdams

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a discussion with poet Janet McAdams.  She will discuss her anthologized poems published in New Poets of Native Nations. Her poem “The Collectors,” which is excerpted in the anthology, was published in its entirety at StorySouth, as was “Ghazal of Body.” More of her poetry can be found here. Janet McAdams’ chapbook, Seven Boxes for the Country After, was published by Kent State University Press in 2015. She is the author of two other poetry books, Feral and The Island of Lost Luggage, which won the American Book Award, and a novel Red Weather. With Geary Hobson and Kathryn Walkiewicz, she co-edited the anthology, The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal(Oklahoma, 2010). She is the founding editor of the Earthworks…

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A Conversation with Elena Passarello

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a conversation with actor and non-fiction writer, Elena Passarello. Ms. Passarello will discuss writing and publishing creative non-fiction, and her essay, “Twinkle, Twinkle Vogel Staar, On Mozart’s Feathered Collaborator,” originally published in Virginia Quarterly Review. (Link here.) Elena Passarello is an actor, writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection Let Me Clear My Throat (Sarabande, 2012), won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction, and The Iowa Review, among other publications, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After…

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A Conversation with Alexia Arthurs

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an intimate conversation with fiction writer Alexia Arthurs. Ms. Arthurs will join students in an informative discussion about the craft of fiction writing and the writing process. Ms. Arthurs will also discuss her short stories “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands” and her Paris Review Plimpton Prize-winning short story “Bad Behavior.” Be prepared to join our discussion with your questions! Alexia Arthurs was born and raised in Jamaica until age twelve, when she moved with her family to New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has published fiction in Granta, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Buzzfeed, Shondaland, Vice, and The Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize in 2017. Her first book, a short story collection…

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A Conversation with Poet Nikky Finney

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for a conversation with poet Nikky Finney on her new book Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts. NIKKY FINNEY | LOVECHILD NIKKY FINNEY was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze; Rice; The World Is Round; and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. She is the John H. Bennet, Jr. Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. Nikky’s new book. Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (2020) is her first poetry collection since winning the National Book Award in 2011. In addition to…

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