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Poets Michael Dickman & Carl Adamshick

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Image-driven and shape-driven, the poems of Michael Dickman’s Days and Days (Knopf) touch on parenthood, childhood, local natural habitats, graffiti culture, roses, and romantic love. Brutal and tender, the spare poems in Carl Adamshick's Birches (Four Way) recount a son's unsentimental and powerful love for his mother, while contemplating, in the wake of her death, what it is to be truly alive.

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Celebrating 45 Years of Mountain Writers Series

Hotel Rose 50 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrating 45 years of serving the literary community -- In March 2019, Mountain Writers Series will host an off-site event, free and open to the public, during the annual AWP Conference in Portland Oregon. This event will celebrate 45 years of programming and serving the literary community in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Scheduled Thursday, March 28, 2019, from 11:00 AM until 10:00 PM at the Hotel Rose in downtown Portland, dozens of Mountain Writers Series' alumni poets and writers will pay tribute to a long list of those no longer with us and present as well some of their own work; they are listed below. Others will be listed, along with a complete schedule of times of presentations, as they are confirmed. Poet/Writer paying tribute to:…

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Michael Dickman + Paulann Petersen

Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Michael Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1975. He received his MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His first poetry collection, The End of the West, was published in 2009 by Copper Canyon Press. He is also the author of Green Migraine and the coauthor, with his brother Matthew Dickman, of 50 American Plays. His second collection, Flies, received the 2010 James Laughlin Award. Dickman was awarded the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University for 2009-2010. He is on the faculty at Princeton University, and lives in New Jersey. Paulann Petersen served from 2010–2014 as Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate. She is the author of seven poetry collections: The Wild Awake, Blood-Silk, A Bride of Narrow Escape, Kindle, The Voluptuary, Understory, and most recently One Small Sun (2019)…

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