Please Join Spare Room in our temporary home at Milepost 5'S Denizen Gallery!
Sunday, May 127:30 p.m.Denizen GalleryMilepost 5
850 NE 81 Avenue
Portland, OR
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
A
longtime union organizer, writer on performance and experimental sound
composition, and former performing/installation artist out of Detroit, david wolach
is founding editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press. wolach's new
book, Hospitalogy, is just out from Tarpaulin Sky Press. wolach's first
full-length collection of poems is Occultations (Black Radish Books,
2011, 2012). Other books include the multi-media performance
transliteration Prefab Eulogies Volume 1: Nothings Houses (BlazeVox,
2010) and book alter(ed) (Ungovernable Press, 2009). Recent work appears
in the anthologies Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and
Poetics (Nightboat Books/EOGH, 2013, Peterson & Tolbert eds.) and
Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press,
2012, Black, Northen, Bartlett eds.), as well as the journals Jacket,
Augfabe, P-Queue, Try Magazine, No Tell Motel, and Little Red Leaves.
wolach is professor of text arts, poetics, and cultural theory at The
Evergreen State College, co-curating the PRESS Text Arts & Radical
Politics Series there, and visiting faculty in Bard College's Language
& Thinking program. wolach is currently at work on a continued
collaboration with the composition and performance troupe Performance
Research Ensemble, and is writing a series of interlocking collaborative
essays investigating Detroit and "corporate ethics" before and after
Right to Work.
Valerie Wernet is
a poet/artist/maker from and in Portland, Oregon. She holds a BA in
Archival Poetics from The Evergreen State College, where she learned to
study via writing and write via study. An infrequently-updated
collection of her works can be found online.
Valerie is currently in the starts of XX, a collaborative working
with/in The Story of O (Reage, 1954) and Sexual Behavior in the Human
Female (Kinsey, 1953) with Aria Boutet. She will be enrolled in the M.F.A. in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, come fall.
Literary Arts Classes at Multnomah Arts Center
Don't miss these three upcoming Literary Arts workshops at the Multnomah Arts Center!
Space available in Revision--Getting Beyond I Like It, starting either May 6 or May 17th; in Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography on the weekend
of May3 and 4; and on June 1 for Reading in the Rain--Performing Your Prose or Poetry.
MAC, located in SW
Portland, is a part of Portland Parks and Recreation. Literary Arts
classes are available to all levels of students and scholarships are
available based on income. Please call (503) 823-3187
to register.
Revision—Getting Beyond “I Like It” with Judith Pulman
Does the diction in your poem match its
tone? Need help expunging clichés from your memoir? Does the meaning of
your short story show? Discover tools, tricks, and secrets to polish any
piece of writing while learning how to
offer peers supportive, constructive feedback. Literary journals and
other less obvious venues for getting your work out there will be
explored.
Poetry 395924 Mon. 7 - 9 pm May 6 - Jun. 3 $64 [4 classes]
Prose 396734 Fri. 10 am - 12 pm May 17 - Jun. 7 $64 [4 classes]
Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography with Nancy Linnon
Take a weekend to explore indelible
moments—those that connect you to the mysterious, the numinous, and the
un-nameable (or whatever name you use). Use exercises and readings as a
springboard to re-inhabit and record spiritual
experiences, whether dramatic or ordinary. Write your life using a lens
that reveals patterns, meaning, and surprise. All levels.
400055 Fri. 6:30 - 9:00 pm & Sat. 10:00 am – 4 pm
May 3 & 4 $82 [2 classes]
May 3 & 4 $82 [2 classes]
Reading in the Rain—Performing Your Prose or Poetry with Dan Raphael
Do you wish that you could read your work
with less fear and mumbling, more energy and applause? The words you
write can show you how to say them. Develop strategies for performing
your work, consider ways to use your “outside”
voice, engage the audience, and project in a variety of environments.
Read both poetry and prose, discussing how these formal differences can
affect a performance. Bring a page of someone else’s work, a page or two of your own, and a pencil.
397655 Sat. 1:00 – 3:30 pm
Jun. 1 $15 [1 class]
Jun. 1 $15 [1 class]
Daniel Kine & Lidia Yuknavitch Reading
April 26, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Powell’s City of Books
1005 W Burnside St., Portland, OR 97209
On April 26 Ooligan Press will celebrate the launch of Daniel Kine’s new novel Up Nights with a reading at Powell’s City of Books.
Kine will be joined by Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water. Join them for a conversation about writing, and a reading from Up Nights on the third floor of Powell’s City of Books in the Basil Hallward Gallery. Signed editions of Up Nights are available for pre-order from powells.com.
For more information about Up Nights, visit ooligan.pdx.edu/fiction/up-
Daniel Kine Book Release Party
May 2, 2013
7-9 p.m.
The Jack London Bar
529 SW 4th Ave., Portland, OR 97204
On May 2, Ooligan Press will celebrate the release of Daniel Kine’s new novel, Up Nights,
a classic road novel for a new generation.
The event will take place at
The Jack London Bar in the basement of the Rialto Poolroom from 7-9
p.m.
This release party is free and open to the public, and will include
a reading from Kine, book-signing, music, and door prizes.
For more
information about Up Nights, visit ooligan.pdx.edu/fiction/up-
Loggernaut with Lenox, Ponteri and Martone
We're excited about our next reading, Wednesday, April 10th, at 7:30pm at
Ristretto Roasters (3808 N. Williams Ave, Portland, OR):
JAY PONTERI, STEPHANIE LENOX, and from Alabama, MICHAEL MARTONE!
The prompt for the reading is TRIP.
We hope you can make it!
-Loggernaut
http://www.loggernaut.org/readings
https://www.facebook.com/events/227532257388887/
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STEPHANIE LENOX is the author of the poetry collection Congress of Strange
People (Airlie Press) and the chapbook The Heart That Lies Outside the
Body. Her work has appeared widely in journals and she's received
fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Oregon Arts
Commission. She teaches poetry at Willamette University and edits the
online literary journal Blood Orange Review. She lives in Salem with her
family.
MICHAEL MARTONE's most recent books are Four for a Quarter, Not Normal,
Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover, a collection of essays called
Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, and Double-wide,
his collected early stories. Michael Martone, a memoir in contributor's
notes, Unconventions, Writing on Writing, and Rules of Thumb, edited with
Susan Neville, were all published recently, too. He is also the author of
The Blue Guide to Indiana and Alive and Dead in Indiana. Martone is
currently a professor at the University of Alabama and a faculty member of
the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
JAY PONTERI is the author of the newly published memoir Wedlocked
(Hawthorne Books 2013). He directs the undergraduate creative writing
program at Marylhurst University and Show: Tell, The Workshop for Teen
Writers & Artists. He is the founding editor of both the online literary
magazine M Review and HABIT Books. His work has appeared in Tin House,
Puerto Del Sol, and Seattle Review; "Listen to This," was chosen as a
Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2010. He has interviewed Jim
Shepard, David Shields, and David Means for Loggernaut. Ponteri lives in
Portland with his family.
Celebrate PNCA's New Writing BFA!
PNCA Launches BFA in Writing with Write Now: Tom Spanbauer, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Chuck Palahniuk
In celebration of the launch of its new BFA in Writing program, Pacific
Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to welcome three acclaimed
Portland writers - Lidia Yuknavitch, Tom Spanbauer, and Chuck Palahniuk -
for an evening of words and on words.
What: Write Now celebrates this
new writing program chaired by associate professor and award-winning
novelist Monica Drake.
Who: Tom Spanbauer, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Chuck Palahniuk
When: Monday, April 22 at 7:30pm
Where: in the Commons at PNCA (1241 NW Johnson St Portland, OR 97209)
Who: Tom Spanbauer, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Chuck Palahniuk
When: Monday, April 22 at 7:30pm
Where: in the Commons at PNCA (1241 NW Johnson St Portland, OR 97209)
Tom Spanbauer, founder of the Dangerous Writers workshop and author of The Man Who Fell in Love With The Moon and other novels will read from his works as will Lidia Yuknavitch, editor of Chiasmus Press and author of Dora: A Head Case and The Chronology of Water: a memoir.
Chuck Palahniuk, best known for his breakout novel, Fight Club, will lead a
discussion of what it means to be a writer now, to pursue the writing
life, to try to make a living, and to always make art with words.
Please note that the authors will not be available for book signing at this event.
Portland Bridges Poetry Reading
Join eight Oregon poets in celebration of Portland’s famed bridges and poetry for the launch of Motionless from the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems.
When: Saturday, April 13, 2013 @ 7pm
Where: St. Johns Booksellers, 8622 N. Lombard St. Portland, OR 97203
David Cooke, A. Molotkov, Katharine
Quince, Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua, Coleman Stevenson, Mark S.R. Struzan,
Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk, and John Sibley Williams will be reading from this
exciting new anthology, published by Portland’s own Bare bone books.
There will be wine and hors d’oeuvres served.
PDX Writers Day Long Retreat
SUMMER WRITING RETREAT
What could
be better than an entire day in June devoted to your writing?
Join us in
the lovely study at McMenamin's Edgefield Hotel. We'll spend half the
day writing to prompts and offering one another feedback. There will
opportunity in the afternoon for extended writing sessions to deepen
your story and then share your day's accomplishments.
Stay if you like:
we'll head out at 5pm for happy hour at one of the many bars on site!
Facilitated by Jennifer Springsteen
- Saturday, June 29, 2013
- Time: Arrive at 8:30 for coffee and continental breakfast. Workshop is from 9am-5:00pm.
- Optional informal gathering after.
- Location: Edgefield Hotel (call early to reserve an overnight room)
- Cost: $100--includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and non alcoholic beverages ($100 for cash/check and $103 for paypal/credit)
- Register for this workshop
Deep Editing
We love it. We hate it. Without it, a story is doomed. This interactive workshop will walk you through a specific process for deep editing of paragraphs, sentences and words. We will cut and paste and move and chip away at our work until it is powerful. Please bring 3-5 pages of a completed scene from your short story, novel, or memoir.
Facilitated by: Kim Taylor*
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Saturday, March 30
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Time: 10am-12:30pm
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Location: SW Portland
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Cost: $45 cash/check and $48 paypal/credit
* Kim is a historical fiction author. Her current mission is to write carefully researched historical novels that bring gay women's stories out of the shadows of history. Her novels include Bowery Girl, a NYPL Best Reads for Teens; Cissy Funk, a Willa Cather award-winner; and Side Dish. Her current work-in-progress, Under the Pale Moon, is set in post-World War II Monterey, California. It explores the relationship of a married woman breaking the bonds of conformity, and a combat nurse struggling with PTSD and haunted by the ghosts of war. Visit her website at www.outoftheshadowsofhistory.com.
Always Beginning: A Poetry Writing Workshop
Poets, if you’re finding it hard to be inspired to write or miss the company of fellow poets, join us Monday evenings at TaborSpace for two hours dedicated to discussing poetry and sharing work. I’ll provide a model poem and prompt before each session, and we’ll spend the first half hour of each workshop focusing on a particular aspect of craft. We’ll then devote the rest of the workshop to a discussion of participants’ poems. Close reading will be the primary tool for learning various aspects of craft, so its practice will be emphasized in all aspects of the workshop, from discussion of suggested poems to response to one another’s work. Within this supportive setting, students can expect to be respectfully challenged to grow as readers and as writers. This workshop is for the beginning poet as well as for the more experienced writer who knows the value of revisiting the fundamentals. All levels are welcome.
Meets: 7:00-9:00 PM, Mondays, April 1 – May 20, 2013
Cost: $185 [Eight two-hour sessions.]
Location: Classroom at TaborSpace (map), 5441 SE Belmont St,
Portland, OR 97215
Register now!
Cindy
Stewart-Rinier’s poems have appeared in Calyx, The Smoking Poet, Crab
Creek Review and Ascent, among others. She received her MFA in Creative
Writing from Pacific Lutheran University in 2012. Her work has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize, selected for the Crab Creek Review 2011
Editor’s Prize, and was awarded first place in the Portland Pen Women
Poetry Contest. She has taught creative writing at all levels, from
elementary and middle school to adult students. A board member of the
Mountain Writers Series, she lives and works in Portland, Oregon.Alive at the Center Book Launch
Date: Friday, April 19th
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Literary Arts
Address: 925 SW Washington St, Portland, OR 97205
Price: Free
Description: Emcee Susan Denning presents readings by Alive at the Center poets.
On April 5th, Ooligan Press will celebrate the launch of its forthcoming poetry anthology, Alive at the Center, at Literary Arts in downtown Portland, from 7-9pm. The launch will feature readings by poets Carl Adamshick, Emily Kendal Frey, Paulann Petersen, and other contributors. Drinks will be available.
On April 5th, Ooligan Press will celebrate the launch of its forthcoming poetry anthology, Alive at the Center, at Literary Arts in downtown Portland, from 7-9pm. The launch will feature readings by poets Carl Adamshick, Emily Kendal Frey, Paulann Petersen, and other contributors. Drinks will be available.
Short Stories with Liz Prato
A good short story excites and satisfies its readers, keeping them
engaged long after the last word. In this craft-oriented workshop, we'll
critique your short fiction in progress, and give close readings to
work by modern masters of the form. Whether you're a novelist,
memoirist, journalist or good ole' short story scribe, this class will
make you a better writer by strengthening your understanding of
character, scene, and the ever-elusive story arc. We will use the
literary story as our guide, but all genres are welcome.
Teacher: Liz Prato
Time: Fridays, 10am - 12pm, April 5 - May 10, 6 weeks
Location: Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
Fee: $242 (cash/check); $250 (credit card)
Register at: The Attic
About Liz: Liz Prato likes stories, real and imagined. Her
own stories and essays have appeared in nearly two dozen journals and magazines,
including Hayden's Ferry Review, ZYZZYVA, Los Angeles Review, Iron Horse
Literary Review and Hunger Mountain. She likes to learn and she likes
to teach at The Attic, Willamette Writers, Oregon Writers' Colony,
Wordstock and Indigo Editing. Want to know more? Check out www.lizprato.com
Amanda Coplin presents The Orchardist
Monday, 03/11/2013 7:00 pm
Annie Bloom's Books is delighted to host Portland author Amanda Coplin for the paperback release of her highly lauded debut novel, The Orchardist.
At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison. In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions.
"Many contemporary novelists have revisited the question of what constitutes a family, but few have responded in a voice as resolute and fiercely poetic." -New York Times Book Review
"A stunning debut…The Orchardist is a poetic book, but its strength doesn’t lie solely in its language. Coplin’s understanding of abuse and the lasting effects of fear and loss on the individual psyche are deeply resonant. As a debut novel, The Orchardist stands on par with Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain." -The Oregonian
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