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Local Poets: Gerry Foote, Mike Langtry, and Dianne Stepp

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

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets Gerry Foote, Mike Langtry, and Dianne Stepp to read from their latest works. Gerry Foote will read from her new chapbook, Mouth Toward Sky, published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Gerry is the creator of the Peace Leaves letter-pressed series of gift poems. Her poems have appeared in The English Journal; Fireweed; The Reed Exile; The Oregonian; Voicecatcher; and the anthologies Peace, Peace to the Far, and to the Near; Portland Lights; and Inquiry: The Immigrant Experience. Yearning for justice in an imperfect world, Gerry’s poems traverse the borderland between the personal and the political. Mike Langtry’s poems come from family, from things close to the ground, animals, mountain sides. Mike is an Oregon native who taught middle school…

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Final Windfall Reading

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

We are both excited and saddened to be hosting an in-person reading on Wednesday, April 20th, at 6:30 pm, to celebrate Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, on the occasion of its final issue. Joining co-editors Bill Siverly and Michael McDowell to read on this evening will be Barbara Drake, Eric le Fatte, Charles Goodrich, Marilyn Johnston, Mike Langtry, Elizabeth McLagan, Paulann Petersen, Carlos Reyes, Penelope Scambly Schott, and Dianne Stepp. The first issue of Windfall was published in Fall of 2002. Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place features poetry which captures the spirit of place as part of the essence of the poem. The journal particularly emphasized poetry which is written in the Pacific Northwest and which is attentive to the relationships…

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