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Poets of Finishing Line Press

Black Hat Books 2831 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Fourteen poets recently published by Finishing Line Press and living in the Pacific Northwest will read snippets of their work. There will be wine and snacks. Readers include Heidi Seaborn, Douglas Cole, Kristin Berger, Julene T. Weaver, Don Colburn, Suzanne Sigafoos, Brittney Corrigan, Dawn Marar, Joe Soldati, Dianne Stepp, Judith Montgomery, MaryAnn L. Miller, Leanne Grabel, and J.D. Smith. Contact: Leanne Grabel

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Celebration of Mothers! With Leanne Grabel and more

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

Here's to Moms!! Please join us as we celebrate mothers with seven fabulous local poets! Reading tonight will be Kevin Sampsell, Tim Barnes, Suzanne Sigafoos, Penelope Schott, Donna Prinzmetal, Nikki Shulak, and Leanne Grabel. Kevin Sampsell is a Portland author, publisher, bookseller, collage artist, and father. He was born in Kennewick, Washington, and is the youngest of six children. While growing up, his mother worked at a fabric store and made most of his wardrobe. Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Recent books include Serpent Love: A Mother-Daughter Epic about a struggle with her adult daughter, House of the Cardamom Seed, and November Quilt. Penelope lives a double life -- in Portland where she and her husband host…

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Suzanne Sigafoos Reading from This Swarm of Light

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting Portland poet Suzanne Sigafoos in an online event on Wednesday, October 28th, at 4 pm pacific time. She will be reading from her newly published first full-length collection of poems, This Swarm of Light. A mid-century child of the midwest, Sigafoos is a happy Portland resident. She and her husband live in a 1916 house they restored in 1999, where they now shelter-in-place, grateful for a home among graceful trees and gracious neighbors. Her chapbook, Held in the Weave, was published in 2011 by Finishing Line Press. John Brehm says this about the collection: "Whether they're about hiking down canyons, standing transfixed before an Andrew Wyeth painting, or bathing a dying mother, these poems are devotional.…

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