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Why There Are Words: Truth and Reconciliation

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1665 SE Bybee Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join Why There Are Words – Portland (WTAW-PDX) for “Truth and Reconciliation” August 18, from 4 to 6 pm at the Corkscrew Wine Bar. We’ll have an amazing afternoon with the following featured authors. Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird, and two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong. Her work has been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016, Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women, and How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader, among others. She is a current Oregon Literary Arts fellow and a former Olive B. O’Connor fellow at Colgate University, and her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Wyoming Arts Council and the Consortium for Science and Policy Outcomes/NSF. She has…

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Lilla Lit Presents BRAVE

Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join Lilla Lit, the quarterly literary reading series hosted at Leach Botanical Garden for readings on the theme of Brave by six Oregon authors: Rebecca Clarren, Michelle DuBarry, John Larison, Jessica Mehta, Natalie Serber, and Leni Zumas, with guest introductions by Brian Benson (Going Somewhere) and Jennifer Perrine (No Confession, No Mass). Doors open at 4PM, readings begin at 4:15. $10 suggested donation at the door; proceeds benefit Leach Botanical Garden, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. For details, including readers’ full bios, see https://www.lillalit.com/fall-2019/

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Sierra Crane Murdoch in Conversation With Rebecca Clarren

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

When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. The landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. Unfolding like a gritty mystery, Sierra Crane Murdoch’s Yellow Bird (Random House) traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. Crane Murdoch will be joined in conversation by Rebecca Clarren, author of Kickdown.

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Emily Strelow in Conversation With Rebecca Clarren

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Emily Strelow's mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an American mosaic alive with birdsong and gunsmoke, held together by a silver box of eggshells – a long-ago gift from a mother to her daughter. Written with grace, grit, and an acute knowledge of how the past insists upon itself, The Wild Birds (Rare Bird) is a radiant and human story about the shelters we find and make along our crooked paths home. Strelow will be joined in conversation by Rebecca Clarren, author of Kickdown.

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One Page Wednesday: January

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! Hosted by Natalie Serber. Featured reading by Rebecca Clarren. Register in advance for One Page Natalie Serber is the author of a memoir, Community Chest, and a story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a summer reading selection from O, the Oprah Magazine, and an Oregonian Top 10 Book of the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has appeared in The Greensboro Review, The Bellingham Review, Gulf Coast, Inkwell, and elsewhere. Essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Huffington Post and others. Natalie has been short listed in Best American…

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