Prompt: A Write Around Portland Community Workshop
Join us for a 10 week workshop devoted to generative writing and the
transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful
Write Around Portland (http://www.writearound.org/)
model, this dynamic workshop incorporates many of our favorite
exercises designed to inspire the writing life, including free-writing;
group discussion; imagery, character, plot and poetry development; and
early-draft revision.
All proceeds from Prompt go directly toward funding Write Around
Portland workshops and programs in hospitals, prisons, schools,
treatment centers, low-income housing facilities and more.
Prompt: Meets weekly for 10 weeks
Ten Tuesdays, May 13 to July 15, 6:30-8:30pm
Powell’s City of Books, 10th and W. Burnside
$285 (Payment plans available. Includes free parking, snacks and access to the “Bowels of Powells.”)
Carolyn O'Doherty earned her MFA from the Stonecoast program at the
University of Southern Maine. She has been a Hawthorne Fellow and
taught a Worldbuilding class at the Attic. Carolyn started volunteering
with Write Around Portland in 2013 and facilitated workshops at a
residential treatment center for men and our twice monthly workshops at
HOTLIPS Pizza. She is currently working on a young adult urban fantasy
novel about kids who can freeze time.
Registration limited to 12 adults. For more information or to register, please contact Write Around Portland at 503.796.9224.
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The ABC's of Literary Journal Submission
What Submission Guidelines Don’t Tell You: An Insider’s Guide to Submitting to Literary Journals
Whether you’re just thinking about sending your work out to literary journals, or you’ve already received a handful of rejections, this class will explain how the dizzying process really works. We’ll cover targeting markets, formatting work, handling rejections, and what happens when you get accepted. After this lively class, you’ll be ready to charge the world of publishing. (Note: Not for book-length publishing)
“I attended a Liz Prato’s mini-workshop on publishing, & it was great. I walked away with reassuring statistics on how many rejections to expect as opposed to acceptances, models for cover letters, an online source for literary journals, & lots of good, practical advice.” ~ Cindy Stewart-Rinier
Register for this class
Teacher: Liz Prato
Date/Time: Saturday, April 19th, 1 - 3pm
Location: Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne
Total Fee: $50 (cash/check); $59 (Paypal).
Liz Prato's stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Subtropics, The Rumpus, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hunger Mountain, Carve, and ZYZZYVA, among others. Awards include the 2010 Minnetonka Review Editor’s Prize, 2005 Berkeley Fiction Review Sudden Fiction prize. She was appointed a 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar and has guest-edited for VoiceCatcher. She is the editor of the fiction anthology The Night, and the Rain, and the River (Forest Avenue Press, May 2014). www.lizprato.com
Liz Prato's stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Subtropics, The Rumpus, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hunger Mountain, Carve, and ZYZZYVA, among others. Awards include the 2010 Minnetonka Review Editor’s Prize, 2005 Berkeley Fiction Review Sudden Fiction prize. She was appointed a 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar and has guest-edited for VoiceCatcher. She is the editor of the fiction anthology The Night, and the Rain, and the River (Forest Avenue Press, May 2014). www.lizprato.com
The 5th Annual Terroir Creative Writing Festival
The 5th
Annual Terroir Creative Writing Festival of Yamhill County will be held
9-5, on Saturday April 19, 2014, at the Yamhill Valley Chemeketa
Community College campus in McMinnville. A full program of speakers
includes authors of fiction, poetry, and memoir, as well as a workshop
in travel writing and hands-on sessions in making letterpress broadsides
and creating a handmade book. Registration discounts for students,
seniors, and pre-registration.
Deadline for pre-registration discount is April 11. For a full schedule and a registration form, go to:
http://terroircreativewritingfestivaldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2014-tcwf-registration-form-2.pdf
For detailed information on presenters and their websites: http://terroircreativewritingfestival.com/visiting-authors
Among the authors presenting are Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate and widely published poet; Karen Karbo, author of fourteen award-winning novels, memoirs and works of non-fiction including the best-selling “Kick Ass Women” series; Joe Wilkins, whose books have won awards both in prose and poetry (Notes from the Journey Westward, The Mountains and the Fathers, and others); Maggie Chula (president of the Tanka Society of America and author of seven poetry collections); nonfiction author and poet Barbara Drake (Peace at Heart, Driving One Hundred); poet and Linfield College professor Lex Runciman (One Hour That Morning and four other collections); memoirist Lisa Ohlen Harris (The Fifth Season and Through the Veil); and novelist Stephen Long (There’s a Somebody). Broadside and letterpress artist Juniper White will discuss the history of the literary broadside and teach a workshop in using letterpress to print poetry broadsides. Journalist and travel author Emily Grosvenor, whose work appears in Sunset magazine, AAA magazine, newspapers, and other publications, will speak on travel writing. Marilyn Worrix, Founder and Director of the Book Arts Center of McMinnville, will conduct a two hour workshop in making your own handmade book, supplies provided.
Note: Check out our Terroir Facebook page for video interviews of Festival speakers talking about their art and their Terroir Festival workshops and other posts.
Deadline for pre-registration discount is April 11. For a full schedule and a registration form, go to:
http://terroircreativewritingfestivaldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2014-tcwf-registration-form-2.pdf
For detailed information on presenters and their websites: http://terroircreativewritingfestival.com/visiting-authors
Among the authors presenting are Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate and widely published poet; Karen Karbo, author of fourteen award-winning novels, memoirs and works of non-fiction including the best-selling “Kick Ass Women” series; Joe Wilkins, whose books have won awards both in prose and poetry (Notes from the Journey Westward, The Mountains and the Fathers, and others); Maggie Chula (president of the Tanka Society of America and author of seven poetry collections); nonfiction author and poet Barbara Drake (Peace at Heart, Driving One Hundred); poet and Linfield College professor Lex Runciman (One Hour That Morning and four other collections); memoirist Lisa Ohlen Harris (The Fifth Season and Through the Veil); and novelist Stephen Long (There’s a Somebody). Broadside and letterpress artist Juniper White will discuss the history of the literary broadside and teach a workshop in using letterpress to print poetry broadsides. Journalist and travel author Emily Grosvenor, whose work appears in Sunset magazine, AAA magazine, newspapers, and other publications, will speak on travel writing. Marilyn Worrix, Founder and Director of the Book Arts Center of McMinnville, will conduct a two hour workshop in making your own handmade book, supplies provided.
Note: Check out our Terroir Facebook page for video interviews of Festival speakers talking about their art and their Terroir Festival workshops and other posts.
Poetry with Harold Johnson and Robert A. Davies
Harold Johnson and Robert A. Davies will give a poetry reading at Kenton Library
(8226 N. Denver Ave., Portland) 7-8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 22. Free.
Harold Johnson was born in Yakima, Washington, and has lived in Portland for the past sixty-two years where he has practiced music, visual art, and writing. His poems have been published in numerous small journals and anthologized in From Here We Speak: Poetry of Oregon, New Poets of the American West, Millennial Spring: Eight New Oregon Poets, Portland Lights, and Millennial Spring: African-American poetry of the 21st Century. He has co-edited the journal Fireweed and has a volume of poems forthcoming from Many Voices Press. Johnson's reading will include recent and older works.
Robert A. Davies lives in Portland, Oregon. He has published widely in the Little magazines and more recently in CounterPunch.com, Windfall, Subtopian and Dissidentvoice.com. He was co-editor of Mr. Cogito magazine for more than 20 years, has published TRACKS IN OREGON (a finalist for the Oregon Literary Award), TIMBER, SOMETIMES SUBVERSIVE, MELONS and MENDELSSOHN and BLUFF HOLLOW. H will be reading mostly from the last 3 books. rjdavies3@comcast.net
(8226 N. Denver Ave., Portland) 7-8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 22. Free.
Harold Johnson was born in Yakima, Washington, and has lived in Portland for the past sixty-two years where he has practiced music, visual art, and writing. His poems have been published in numerous small journals and anthologized in From Here We Speak: Poetry of Oregon, New Poets of the American West, Millennial Spring: Eight New Oregon Poets, Portland Lights, and Millennial Spring: African-American poetry of the 21st Century. He has co-edited the journal Fireweed and has a volume of poems forthcoming from Many Voices Press. Johnson's reading will include recent and older works.
Robert A. Davies lives in Portland, Oregon. He has published widely in the Little magazines and more recently in CounterPunch.com, Windfall, Subtopian and Dissidentvoice.com. He was co-editor of Mr. Cogito magazine for more than 20 years, has published TRACKS IN OREGON (a finalist for the Oregon Literary Award), TIMBER, SOMETIMES SUBVERSIVE, MELONS and MENDELSSOHN and BLUFF HOLLOW. H will be reading mostly from the last 3 books. rjdavies3@comcast.net
Spring Classes at the Multnomah Arts Center
The
Multnomah Arts Center is located in SW Portland and offers classes in
various artistic disciplines for people of all ages through Portland
Parks and Recreation.
To register call (503) 823-3187 or visit
www.multnomahartscenter.org to get full course listings and find out more about our teachers.
Fiction—Writing What You Don’t Know with Michael Cooper
Mondays 7 - 9 pm Apr. 7 - May 19 $120 [7 classes] Michael Cooper
Advanced Memoir Writing with Rob Freedman
Tuesdays 10 am - 12:30 pm Apr. 1 - May 27 $184 [9 classes]
Writing Poetry That Pops with Donna Prinzmetal
Tuesdays 7 - 8:30 pm Apr. 1 - Jun. 3 $135 [10 classes]
Writing Personal Histories with Meg Eberle
Wednesdays 10 am - 1 pm Apr. 2 - May 28 $120 [5 classes]
Reading & Writing About Oregon with Christine Colasurdo
Wednesdays 7 - 9 pm Apr. 2 - Jun. 4 $170 [10 classes]
Writing Our Lives As Story with Nancy Linnon
Thursdays 10 am - 12 pm Apr. 3 - May 22 $136 [8 classes]
The Writer’s Toolbox with Judith Pulman
Fridays 10 - 12:30 pm Apr. 18 – Jun. 6 $164 [8 weeks]
Reading Your Work Aloud with Robert Freedman
Saturday 1 - 4 pm May 31 $28 [1 class]
Saturday 1 - 4 pm May 31 $28 [1 class]
Writers’ Boot Camp with Michael Cooper
Saturdays Apr. 12—1 - 3:30 pm; May 10 & Jun. 7—1 - 2:30 pm $48 [3 classes]
Saturdays Apr. 12—1 - 3:30 pm; May 10 & Jun. 7—1 - 2:30 pm $48 [3 classes]
Poetry On Boradway Returns!
Poetry returns to downtown Portland!
The Attic Institute has partnered with Portland Center for Performing Arts to present Poetry on Broadway - a free poetry series in the heart of downtown Portland at PCPA in the rotunda of Antoinette Hatfield Hall at SW Main & Broadway.
Series opener | Monday, September 23, 8pm | Learn more
POETRY ON BROADWAY: LINDA BIERDSRaised in Anchorage, Alaska and graduate of the University of Washington, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning poet Linda Bierds uses her work to explore historical and scientific information from a new angle. Her poetry allows people to rediscover the lives of historical figures including Darwin, Beethoven, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Linda’s most prominent work includes her bookThe Ghost Trio (1994), named as a Notable Book Selection by the American Library Association. If you have seen Linda Bierds read, you know what a treat it is! Don't miss this poet in a rare Portland appearance.
The Attic Institute has partnered with Portland Center for Performing Arts to present Poetry on Broadway - a free poetry series in the heart of downtown Portland at PCPA in the rotunda of Antoinette Hatfield Hall at SW Main & Broadway.
Series opener | Monday, September 23, 8pm | Learn more
POETRY ON BROADWAY: LINDA BIERDSRaised in Anchorage, Alaska and graduate of the University of Washington, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning poet Linda Bierds uses her work to explore historical and scientific information from a new angle. Her poetry allows people to rediscover the lives of historical figures including Darwin, Beethoven, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Linda’s most prominent work includes her bookThe Ghost Trio (1994), named as a Notable Book Selection by the American Library Association. If you have seen Linda Bierds read, you know what a treat it is! Don't miss this poet in a rare Portland appearance.
Brittney Corrigan reading at Another Read Through
Brittney Corrigan reading at Another Read ThroughTuesday, September 10, 2013
7:00pm
Another Read Through
1435 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, 97217http://www.anotherreadthrough.com/Brittney Corrigan will be reading from her poetry collection, Navigation, as well as new work at Another Read Through, one of Portland's newest local bookstores. Come for the reading, stay for the open mic to follow, and browse the great selection of used books.
Brittney Corrigan was raised in Colorado but has called Portland, Oregon her home since 1990. She holds a degree from Reed College, where she is also employed. She is the poetry editor for the online journal Hyperlexia: poetry and prose about the autism spectrum (http://hyperlexiajournal.com/). Brittney’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of the collection, Navigation, published by The Habit of Rainy Nights Press (2012), and the chapbook, 40 Weeks, published by Finishing Line Press (2012). To find out more about Brittney, visit http://brittneycorrigan.com/.
7:00pm
Another Read Through
1435 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, 97217http://www.anotherreadthrough.com/Brittney Corrigan will be reading from her poetry collection, Navigation, as well as new work at Another Read Through, one of Portland's newest local bookstores. Come for the reading, stay for the open mic to follow, and browse the great selection of used books.
Brittney Corrigan was raised in Colorado but has called Portland, Oregon her home since 1990. She holds a degree from Reed College, where she is also employed. She is the poetry editor for the online journal Hyperlexia: poetry and prose about the autism spectrum (http://hyperlexiajournal.com/). Brittney’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of the collection, Navigation, published by The Habit of Rainy Nights Press (2012), and the chapbook, 40 Weeks, published by Finishing Line Press (2012). To find out more about Brittney, visit http://brittneycorrigan.com/.
Literary Arts Classes at MAC!
Fall 2013 Literary Arts Classes and Workshops
Multnomah Arts Center
To register for classes, call (503) 823-3187 or visit www.multnomahartscenter.
Memoir Writing with Rob Freedman
Tuesdays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 8 – December 03 $184 [9 weeks]
The Writer Within with Nancy Linnon
Tuesdays, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
October 8 - November 26 $136 [8 weeks]
Writing Poetry with Donna Prinzmetal
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
October 1 - December 3 $135 [10 weeks]
Writing Personal Histories with Meg Ainsworth Eberle
Wednesdays, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 2 - December 4 $102 [5 weeks]
Memoir Writing with Kate Carroll deGutes
Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
October 9 - December 4 (no class November 20) $154 [9 weeks]
Getting Beyond “I Like It”: Revision Workshop with Judith Pulman
Fridays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 25 - December 6 (no class November 29) $110 [6 weeks]
The Playwright’s Toolbox with Michael Thomas Cooper
Saturdays 1:00 - 3:00 pm
October 5 - November 16 $120 [7 weeks]
Saturday One-day Workshops
Writing Experiments with James Yeary
Saturday, October 5 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Writing from Archetypes with Lyssa Tall Anolik
Saturday, October 19 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Write for a Change in Yourself with Amy Minato
Saturday, November 2 10:00 am - 1:00 pm $25
Being Your Own Publisher with Vinnie Kinsella
Saturday, November 9, 1:00 - 3:00 pm $30
Memoir Writing with Rob Freedman
Tuesdays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 8 – December 03 $184 [9 weeks]
The Writer Within with Nancy Linnon
Tuesdays, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
October 8 - November 26 $136 [8 weeks]
Writing Poetry with Donna Prinzmetal
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
October 1 - December 3 $135 [10 weeks]
Writing Personal Histories with Meg Ainsworth Eberle
Wednesdays, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 2 - December 4 $102 [5 weeks]
Memoir Writing with Kate Carroll deGutes
Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
October 9 - December 4 (no class November 20) $154 [9 weeks]
Getting Beyond “I Like It”: Revision Workshop with Judith Pulman
Fridays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 25 - December 6 (no class November 29) $110 [6 weeks]
The Playwright’s Toolbox with Michael Thomas Cooper
Saturdays 1:00 - 3:00 pm
October 5 - November 16 $120 [7 weeks]
Saturday One-day Workshops
Writing Experiments with James Yeary
Saturday, October 5 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Writing from Archetypes with Lyssa Tall Anolik
Saturday, October 19 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Write for a Change in Yourself with Amy Minato
Saturday, November 2 10:00 am - 1:00 pm $25
Being Your Own Publisher with Vinnie Kinsella
Saturday, November 9, 1:00 - 3:00 pm $30
ATTIC ATHENEUM FACULTY TO READ AT BROADWAY BOOKS
7 pm on Thursday September 5 at 7 pm.
In celebration of the Attic Institute’s Atheneum Master Writing Program and its incoming class of Atheneum Fellows, the faculty from this groundbreaking program will read from their work.
The Atheneum Master Writing Program is an annual certificate program that melds independent study under close faculty supervision, student receptions, public readings, and other special events created around good writing and dialog within the literary community. The program is designed to advance student’s writing and seed literary life in the city of Portland. Atheneum Fellows form a unique community of literary artists and citizens.
Scheduled to read at this event are writers and faculty members David Biespiel, Karen Karbo, Lee Montgomery, Wendy Willis, Merridawn Duckler, and Greg Robillard.
VoiceCatcher Contributors Read at Rain or Shine Coffee House
Join poets Stella Jeng
Guillory, Pattie Palmer-Baker, Marjorie Power, Cindy Stewart-Rinier and
Wendy Thompson along with memoirist Anne Gudger
Wen: Thursday, September 19, 2013. 6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Rain or Shine Coffee House, 5941 SE Division St.,Portland, OR 97206
Tonia Twigger McConnell, whose photographs are on display this month at Rain or Shine, will also discuss her photography.
Wen: Thursday, September 19, 2013. 6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Rain or Shine Coffee House, 5941 SE Division St.,Portland, OR 97206
Tonia Twigger McConnell, whose photographs are on display this month at Rain or Shine, will also discuss her photography.
PDX Women's Writers Retreat At Silver Falls
2013 Silver Falls RetreatNovember 1 - 3
with Sidra & Dawn at
Silver Falls Conference Center
This retreat, in the enchanted
forest of Silver Falls, offers the opportunity to renew your connection with your body, your heart, your creativity, and the Earth.
In an atmosphere of acceptance and support, we'll use writing, yoga, meditation, collage, movement, silence, ritual and time in nature to regenerate our vitality and creativity, reconnect with our authentic self, release old stories that no longer serve us and renew our visions and dreams. Enjoy delicious means prepared for you and a comfortable cabin tucked away in the magical forest of Silver Falls. There will also be time to explore the natural wonders of this unique state park. All women are welcome - no previous writing experience needed. 10 participants max. |
Details:
*Cost is $420 for a shared cabin and $470 for a single (a very limited amount of single cabins available) *$150 deposit holds your spot; balance is due 2 weeks before the retreat; deposit is refundable minus a $35 processing fee with at least 2 weeks cancellation notice. *The retreat begins with dinner Friday evening, and ends on Sunday afternoon. Contact Sidra for more info or to register: sidra@pdxwomenwriters.com or 503-317-5148 |
TWO PORTLAND POETS AT BROADWAY BOOKS
7 pm on Wednesday July 10
Poets Penelope Scambly Schott and Andrea Hollander will be here to read from newly published books.
Penelope Scambly Schott’s new book is Lillie was a goddess Lillie was a whore and is published by Mayapple Press of Woodstock, New York. It’s a poetic look at the world’s “oldest profession” – prostitution. By turns funny, wise, historical, contemporary, sacred and profane, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the subject by a poet with an unflinching imagination. Ms. Schott’s previous books include several chapbooks and collections. She is the recipient of an Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She is a resident of Portland and Dufur, Oregon.
Andrea Hollander’s new book is Landscape with Female Figure: New and Collected Poems, 1981 - 2012, published by Autumn House Press of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of three previous chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. She has won many honors for her poetry and memoir work, including two NEA fellowships, a D.H. Lawrence Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She spent twenty-two years as Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas and now lives in Portland.
Poets Penelope Scambly Schott and Andrea Hollander will be here to read from newly published books.
Penelope Scambly Schott’s new book is Lillie was a goddess Lillie was a whore and is published by Mayapple Press of Woodstock, New York. It’s a poetic look at the world’s “oldest profession” – prostitution. By turns funny, wise, historical, contemporary, sacred and profane, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the subject by a poet with an unflinching imagination. Ms. Schott’s previous books include several chapbooks and collections. She is the recipient of an Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She is a resident of Portland and Dufur, Oregon.
Andrea Hollander’s new book is Landscape with Female Figure: New and Collected Poems, 1981 - 2012, published by Autumn House Press of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of three previous chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. She has won many honors for her poetry and memoir work, including two NEA fellowships, a D.H. Lawrence Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She spent twenty-two years as Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas and now lives in Portland.
The Studio Series: Poetry Reading and Open Mic
VoiceCatcher poets: Maggie
Chula, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, Andrea Hollander, Annie Lighthart,
Emily Pitman Newberry, Darlene Pagán and Pat Phillips West
at Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Avenue, Portland 97239 on Sunday, July 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public, the Studio Series is held monthly on second Sundays. The adjoining Ross Island Café is no longer open on Sunday evenings. For additional information please contact host and organizer Leah Stenson at leahstenson@comcast.net.
Margaret Chula is a poet, teacher and performance artist. She has published seven books of poetry and currently serves as the first Poet Laureate of Friends of Chamber Music in Portland and as President of the Tanka Society of America.
Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez collaborates with musicians, thespians and visual artists. Her collection, the small claim of bones, is forthcoming from Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University). Her plays have been produced by the Miracle Theatre Group and Insight Out Theatre Collective.
Andrea Hollander is the author of three chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections, most recently Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, 1982 – 2012. She is the recipient of a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship.
Annie Lighthart began writing poetry after her first visit to an Oregon old-growth forest. Since then, she has continued to write while working as a teacher and mother. Her book of poetry Iron String is forthcoming from Airlie Press in October 2013.
Emily Pittman Newberry is a poet, speaker, writer and performance artist. One Spirit Press published Butterfly A Rose, her first book of poetry, in 2010.
Darlene Pagán is a writer and mother, an activist and wife, a teacher and thinker. She teaches writing and literature at Pacific University in Oregon. A full-length collection, Petty Crimes and Other Misadventures, is forthcoming.
Pat Phillips West’s poems have appeared or will appear in Imagination & Place: Weather, Persimmon Tree, VoiceCatcher6, Manzanita Writers Press, San Pedro River Review and elsewhere.
at Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Avenue, Portland 97239 on Sunday, July 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public, the Studio Series is held monthly on second Sundays. The adjoining Ross Island Café is no longer open on Sunday evenings. For additional information please contact host and organizer Leah Stenson at leahstenson@comcast.net.
Margaret Chula is a poet, teacher and performance artist. She has published seven books of poetry and currently serves as the first Poet Laureate of Friends of Chamber Music in Portland and as President of the Tanka Society of America.
Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez collaborates with musicians, thespians and visual artists. Her collection, the small claim of bones, is forthcoming from Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University). Her plays have been produced by the Miracle Theatre Group and Insight Out Theatre Collective.
Andrea Hollander is the author of three chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections, most recently Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, 1982 – 2012. She is the recipient of a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship.
Annie Lighthart began writing poetry after her first visit to an Oregon old-growth forest. Since then, she has continued to write while working as a teacher and mother. Her book of poetry Iron String is forthcoming from Airlie Press in October 2013.
Emily Pittman Newberry is a poet, speaker, writer and performance artist. One Spirit Press published Butterfly A Rose, her first book of poetry, in 2010.
Darlene Pagán is a writer and mother, an activist and wife, a teacher and thinker. She teaches writing and literature at Pacific University in Oregon. A full-length collection, Petty Crimes and Other Misadventures, is forthcoming.
Pat Phillips West’s poems have appeared or will appear in Imagination & Place: Weather, Persimmon Tree, VoiceCatcher6, Manzanita Writers Press, San Pedro River Review and elsewhere.
Opened Window: a steaming evening of erotic verse
Verse In Person presents“Opened Window: a steaming evening of erotic verse”
· Featured readers will be Celina Wigle, Dena Rash Guzman, Joaquin Lopez, Ross Robbins, Sterling Clark
· A short open mic dedicated to erotic poems will precede the featured poets.
· Minors will be permitted if accompanied by a mature-looking adult.
· If an adult’s mature appearance is dubious, measurements of cranium and beadiness of eye will determine a subject’s grade of perversity and subsequent permission to enter event.
· Folding fans may be employed should audience members swoon.
· Smelling salts will not be provided.
STERLING CLARK is a poet, performance artist and creator. She hails from Los Angeles, CA where she began writing at the age of seven. Her poetry has been described as raw, erotic, and honest. She flays her heart open, exposes her vulnerability and presents it for all to hear through written word. She does queer, polyamoury and sex work activism and is a student of sexology. Her intent as a writer is to inspire honesty in a world so inhabited by fear.
DENA RASH GUZMAN is the author of Life Cycle-Poems (Dog On A Chain Press 2013.) Editor of the literary journal Unshod Quills, she is managing director for the Shanghai, China based English language publisher, HAL Publishing. In 2010 she was awarded Judge's Prize for Best Performance at the first known erotic fiction competition in post-Mao mainland China, at Glamour Bar in Shanghai.
JOAQUIN LOPEZ is a musician, writer, cultural events and music producer, and small business owner. Producer credits include Taste of Mexico at the Portland Art Museum and the annual cultural performance for Portland Latino Gay Pride: Voz Alta. In 2012, he released the album, “…For the Disenchanted,” a Spanish language ode to melancholia and longing featuring boleros. Joaquin received his BFA in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University and sits on the board of Business for Culture and the Arts, Momentum Alliance and Portland Latino Gay Pride. He works at La Bonita with his family.
ROSS ROBBINS lives, writes, and loves in Portland, Oregon. He is an avid self-publisher of chapbooks. His latest, "I want to say how I feel and be done with it forever," is available for purchase at his appearances, along with his other work.
CELINA WIGLE is an Oregon native and graduate of Portland State University's English Literature program. Her mystic alter ego, the Celestial Concubine, has produced three chapbooks and a spoken word album. She is a certified postpartum doula, freelance writer, steampunk fashion model, contributor to the Happy Hysteria holistic sexual health community, and a volunteer co-editor for VoiceCatcher literary journal.
Sign up begins at 5:45 pm. Reading runs 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Wednesday, June 26th
Northwest Library
2300 NW Thurman Street
For more info or questions email: verse.in.person.pdx@gmail.com
· Featured readers will be Celina Wigle, Dena Rash Guzman, Joaquin Lopez, Ross Robbins, Sterling Clark
· A short open mic dedicated to erotic poems will precede the featured poets.
· Minors will be permitted if accompanied by a mature-looking adult.
· If an adult’s mature appearance is dubious, measurements of cranium and beadiness of eye will determine a subject’s grade of perversity and subsequent permission to enter event.
· Folding fans may be employed should audience members swoon.
· Smelling salts will not be provided.
STERLING CLARK is a poet, performance artist and creator. She hails from Los Angeles, CA where she began writing at the age of seven. Her poetry has been described as raw, erotic, and honest. She flays her heart open, exposes her vulnerability and presents it for all to hear through written word. She does queer, polyamoury and sex work activism and is a student of sexology. Her intent as a writer is to inspire honesty in a world so inhabited by fear.
DENA RASH GUZMAN is the author of Life Cycle-Poems (Dog On A Chain Press 2013.) Editor of the literary journal Unshod Quills, she is managing director for the Shanghai, China based English language publisher, HAL Publishing. In 2010 she was awarded Judge's Prize for Best Performance at the first known erotic fiction competition in post-Mao mainland China, at Glamour Bar in Shanghai.
JOAQUIN LOPEZ is a musician, writer, cultural events and music producer, and small business owner. Producer credits include Taste of Mexico at the Portland Art Museum and the annual cultural performance for Portland Latino Gay Pride: Voz Alta. In 2012, he released the album, “…For the Disenchanted,” a Spanish language ode to melancholia and longing featuring boleros. Joaquin received his BFA in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University and sits on the board of Business for Culture and the Arts, Momentum Alliance and Portland Latino Gay Pride. He works at La Bonita with his family.
ROSS ROBBINS lives, writes, and loves in Portland, Oregon. He is an avid self-publisher of chapbooks. His latest, "I want to say how I feel and be done with it forever," is available for purchase at his appearances, along with his other work.
CELINA WIGLE is an Oregon native and graduate of Portland State University's English Literature program. Her mystic alter ego, the Celestial Concubine, has produced three chapbooks and a spoken word album. She is a certified postpartum doula, freelance writer, steampunk fashion model, contributor to the Happy Hysteria holistic sexual health community, and a volunteer co-editor for VoiceCatcher literary journal.
Sign up begins at 5:45 pm. Reading runs 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Wednesday, June 26th
Northwest Library
2300 NW Thurman Street
For more info or questions email: verse.in.person.pdx@gmail.com
Loggernaut reading, "Spin"
Loggernaut
reading, "Spin," featuring Patrick DeWitt, Sarah Barlett, and Daniel A.
Hoyt
Tuesday, June 11th at 7:30 pm, at Ristretto Roasters, 3808 N. Williams, Portland, 97227. $2 suggested donation. www.loggernaut.org
SARAH BARTLETT is the co-author of two chapbook collaborations: Baby On the Safe Side (Publishing Genius in 2011) and A Mule-Shaped Cloud (horse less press 2008). Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Swine, Ilk, iO, Eleven Eleven, Phantom Limb, Heavy Feather Review, Spork, Sixth Finch, NOÖ, and inter|rupture. She lives in Portland.
PATRICK DEWITT was born in British Columbia, Canada, in 1975. He is the author of Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, and The Sisters Brothers, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Ken Kesey Award for fiction. He lives in Portland.
DANIEL A. HOYT's first short story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and was published by UMass Press. His work has also appeared in The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, and Gettysburg Review. He formerly worked as a journalist for newspapers in Columbia, Missouri; La Crosse, Wisconsin; Kansas City, Missouri; and Binghamton, New York. He now teaches at Kansas State University, where he directs the creative writing program.
Tuesday, June 11th at 7:30 pm, at Ristretto Roasters, 3808 N. Williams, Portland, 97227. $2 suggested donation. www.loggernaut.org
SARAH BARTLETT is the co-author of two chapbook collaborations: Baby On the Safe Side (Publishing Genius in 2011) and A Mule-Shaped Cloud (horse less press 2008). Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Swine, Ilk, iO, Eleven Eleven, Phantom Limb, Heavy Feather Review, Spork, Sixth Finch, NOÖ, and inter|rupture. She lives in Portland.
PATRICK DEWITT was born in British Columbia, Canada, in 1975. He is the author of Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, and The Sisters Brothers, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Ken Kesey Award for fiction. He lives in Portland.
DANIEL A. HOYT's first short story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and was published by UMass Press. His work has also appeared in The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, and Gettysburg Review. He formerly worked as a journalist for newspapers in Columbia, Missouri; La Crosse, Wisconsin; Kansas City, Missouri; and Binghamton, New York. He now teaches at Kansas State University, where he directs the creative writing program.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY MFA PROGRAM READING SERIES
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN WRITING PROGRAM PRESENTS ANNUAL READING SERIES ON FOREST GROVE CAMPUS: JUNE 21-28
The Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program will once again host readings by some of America’s finest writers during its 10-day residency on the Forest Grove campus.
Free and open to the public, the evening readings take place at 7:30 p.m. from Friday, June 21, through Friday, June 28, in the Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center which is also the location for the day readings. Taylor-Meade is located on campus at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Cedar Street in Forest Grove.
This event is a rare opportunity to hear some of the best writers of contemporary American literature read on successive evenings. Featured authors include fiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, a National Book Award finalist; and poet Kwame Dawes, Emmy Award winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
EVENING READING SCHEDULE – 7:30 p.m.6/21 Kwame Dawes, Mary Helen Stefaniak & Kellie Wells
6/22 Jack Driscoll, Pam Houston & David St. John
6/23 Ellen Bass, Craig Lesley & David Long
6/24 Mike Magnuson, Joseph Millar & Christine Sneed
6/26 Marvin Bell, Bonnie Jo Campbell & Scott Korb
6/27 Sandra Alcosser, Carolyn Coman & Claire Davis
6/28 Debra Gwartney, Anna Journey & Dorianne Laux
DAYTIME READING SCHEDULE – 1:30 p.m.6/25 Frank Gaspar & Laura Pritchett
6/28 Steve Amick & Laura Hendrie
The Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program will once again host readings by some of America’s finest writers during its 10-day residency on the Forest Grove campus.
Free and open to the public, the evening readings take place at 7:30 p.m. from Friday, June 21, through Friday, June 28, in the Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center which is also the location for the day readings. Taylor-Meade is located on campus at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Cedar Street in Forest Grove.
This event is a rare opportunity to hear some of the best writers of contemporary American literature read on successive evenings. Featured authors include fiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, a National Book Award finalist; and poet Kwame Dawes, Emmy Award winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
EVENING READING SCHEDULE – 7:30 p.m.6/21 Kwame Dawes, Mary Helen Stefaniak & Kellie Wells
6/22 Jack Driscoll, Pam Houston & David St. John
6/23 Ellen Bass, Craig Lesley & David Long
6/24 Mike Magnuson, Joseph Millar & Christine Sneed
6/26 Marvin Bell, Bonnie Jo Campbell & Scott Korb
6/27 Sandra Alcosser, Carolyn Coman & Claire Davis
6/28 Debra Gwartney, Anna Journey & Dorianne Laux
DAYTIME READING SCHEDULE – 1:30 p.m.6/25 Frank Gaspar & Laura Pritchett
6/28 Steve Amick & Laura Hendrie
Chapbook Release Party
Join Ryan Scariano, Jennifer
Liberts Weinberg, and Tiah Lindner Raphael for a poetry reading and
release party for Smithereens, the first chapbook by Ryan Scariano. http://ryanscariano.com/
Sunday, June 9
7 PMThe Waypost3120 N Williams Ave
Portland, OR 97227
Sunday, June 9
7 PMThe Waypost3120 N Williams Ave
Portland, OR 97227
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]
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.
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.
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