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Since When: A Memoir in Pieces Book launch and reading

Reed College - Eliot Hall Chapel 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR, United States

Please join Spare Room, the Cooley Gallery, and the family of Bill Berkson as we celebrate the publication of Since When: A Memoir in Pieces, out now from Coffee House Press. There will be a reception at 5:45 pm, with readings to begin at 6:30. Copies of the memoir will be available for purchase. Readers will include: Connie Lewallen     Nina Lewallen Hufford Léonie Guyer     David Abel James Yeary     Paul Maziar Jen Coleman     Lisa Radon Sam Lohmann     Chris Ashby Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of bold-face names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man…

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PNCA Presents: Renee Gladman and Lisa Radon

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

PNCA presents Renee Gladman and Lisa Radon at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) on January 10th at 6:30 pm as part of the Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing Winter Residency. Gladman and Radon will read from their most recent works. This event is made possible by a generous grant from the Collins Foundation. It’s free and open to the public. Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She is the author of twelve published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), and Houses of Ravicka (2017)—as well…

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Spare Room reading: James Yeary & Lisa Radon

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

James Yeary and Lisa Radon will read from their new books, Hawai'i and Age of Sand. "Hawai'i" is a survey of the emotional topography of the outer solar system. Different sources (all imagined) culture (microbiologically) its dreaming cartographer. Accompanying "Hawai'i," a serial poem called "Lucien" watches the self-mythologizing of an old galaxy that out of loneliness has started talking to itself. Hawai’i by James Yeary ciel o canth (Alderich Mime, Lake Vostok), 2020. Cover by Sam Lohmann. 52 pages, hand-sewn in an edition of 220. AGE OF SAND is a book of log entries that imagines impossible interconnectivities, rewritings and rewrightings of the digital and the analog, the past and the future through a cyberfeminist lens. What are the qualities of the permeable membrane between…

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