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.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
“The Future Is Now: 2063”
How will the Cascadia region turn different by 2063? What new land-use
patterns will emerge over the next 50 years? What’s happening today (2013) that will influence the Pacific Northwest for decades to come? What should be done about it?
Calling all planners, designers, creative theorists, writers and
speculators—The Bear Deluxe Magazine is looking for your feedback, ideas and imagination. Send us your written submissions and we’ll broadcast them out to a regional and national audience. Submissions to be considered for publication in The Bear Deluxe Magazine #35, special theme-issue on the “The Future.” (Other prompts: Klamath River dam removal; the proposed Columbia River Crossing?)
Special issue is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Deadline: July 8, 2013
Word limit: 400 words (shorter submissions welcome)
Email to: bear@orlo.org
How will the Cascadia region turn different by 2063? What new land-use
patterns will emerge over the next 50 years? What’s happening today (2013) that will influence the Pacific Northwest for decades to come? What should be done about it?
Calling all planners, designers, creative theorists, writers and
speculators—The Bear Deluxe Magazine is looking for your feedback, ideas and imagination. Send us your written submissions and we’ll broadcast them out to a regional and national audience. Submissions to be considered for publication in The Bear Deluxe Magazine #35, special theme-issue on the “The Future.” (Other prompts: Klamath River dam removal; the proposed Columbia River Crossing?)
Special issue is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Deadline: July 8, 2013
Word limit: 400 words (shorter submissions welcome)
Email to: bear@orlo.org
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.
Kickstart Your Writing!
Writing class starts Sept. 18
Whether you’re working on a novel or interested in short stories, memoir, essays, articles or other forms of fiction or nonfiction, the Kickstart Your Writing class offers a supportive environment in which you can work on specific writing projects. Students set weekly goals; read their work aloud; and receive positive, helpful feedback from the instructor and other students.
The class runs Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.
September 18-November 20.
The class is held in the Hollywood district of Northeast Portland. The exact location is provided upon publication.
Cost is $200 for the 10-week class.
To register, mail payment to Nancy Woods, P.O. Box 18032, Portland, OR 97218.
To pay by credit card call (503) 288-2469.
For more information: wordpics@aracnet.com, nancy-woods.com, (503) 288-2469.
Whether you’re working on a novel or interested in short stories, memoir, essays, articles or other forms of fiction or nonfiction, the Kickstart Your Writing class offers a supportive environment in which you can work on specific writing projects. Students set weekly goals; read their work aloud; and receive positive, helpful feedback from the instructor and other students.
The class runs Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.
September 18-November 20.
The class is held in the Hollywood district of Northeast Portland. The exact location is provided upon publication.
Cost is $200 for the 10-week class.
To register, mail payment to Nancy Woods, P.O. Box 18032, Portland, OR 97218.
To pay by credit card call (503) 288-2469.
For more information: wordpics@aracnet.com, nancy-woods.com, (503) 288-2469.
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
Summer Literary Arts at MAC
Summer 2013 Focus Your Writing Series at MAC
To register for classes, call the Arts Center at (503) 823-3187 or visit www.multnomahartscenter.org.
Classes start soon; don’t miss out!
WRITING THE TEN-MINUTE PLAY with M. Thomas Cooper
Discover the art of playwriting and create a ten-minute play from scratch. Experiment with various forms of theater—if you can imagine it, you can put it on the stage! See how your words look dramatized. Explore topics such as characterization, plot, dialogue, and more, through in-class exercises. Come out of the course with confidence and a finished script.
401619 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 22 - Jul. 20 $80 [5 classes]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN YOURSELF with Amy Minato
By digging deep, seasoned writers transform themselves through the writing process. Reconcile your inner values and external realities through directed writings that address what makes you thrive and what makes you wither. Then use writing as a tool for personal growth while learning techniques to enhance your writing style.
401674 Sat. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN SOCIETY with Amy Minato
Society influences our lives, yet personal testimonies inspire social movements. Use a story familiar to you as an example to alert or inspire. Together, tease apart the personal and political in order to explore ways to effectively reweave them. Practice combining research with story to build a case for a cause.
403046 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITING FOR WELLNESS with Nancy Linnon
Reduce stress. Sleep better. Feel more relaxed. The practice of writing can help you achieve all of this and more. Research shows that writing improves immune function and overall well-being. Learn how to integrate the practice of writing into your days so that life feels richer and less fragmented. No positive feelings about writing required!
401618 Sat. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Jul. 13 $48 [1 classes]
MY DAY AT THE LIBRARY with Nate Orton & James Yeary
See the library as a book of its own: read from its resources of fiction, fact, art, and music; take the people and pages that surround you as sources; and respond through writing and artwork. Spend a day in the main branch of the Multnomah County Library downtown and be guided through models, examples, and exercises. The second week, make a Xeroxed zine comprising writings, drawings, and photographs from the excursion. Honor the computer-less tradition of zines by making this limited edition book with scissors, glue, and a photocopier.
403007 Sun. Jun. 23 12:00 - 4:00 pm & Jun. 30 12:00 - 3:00 pm $63 [2 classes]
WRITING EXPERIMENTS with James Yeary
Use this workshop as a playground to turn your work on its head, inside out, and into something entirely different. Engage in games, conduct experiments, and impose rules to create works you never expected. The results will be fun, silly, absurd, and exceptional. One hundred years of experimental writing techniques will be discussed and/or implemented, and maybe we’ll come up with some of our own.
401616 Tu. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 9 - 23 $48 [3 classes]
WRITING THROUGH LOSS with Judith Pulman
By exploring the tradition of expressing grief through ordered language, anyone can utilize rituals that promote understanding, acceptance, and eventual healing in the face of great difficulties. Survey stories and poems that take loss as their subject and sketch out pieces of your own. In the classroom’s safe space, give voice to the complexities of grief and in so doing, you might uncover what gives you life.
401673 Th. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 18 - Aug. 8 $64 [4 classes]
To register for classes, call the Arts Center at (503) 823-3187 or visit www.multnomahartscenter.org.
Classes start soon; don’t miss out!
WRITING THE TEN-MINUTE PLAY with M. Thomas Cooper
Discover the art of playwriting and create a ten-minute play from scratch. Experiment with various forms of theater—if you can imagine it, you can put it on the stage! See how your words look dramatized. Explore topics such as characterization, plot, dialogue, and more, through in-class exercises. Come out of the course with confidence and a finished script.
401619 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 22 - Jul. 20 $80 [5 classes]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN YOURSELF with Amy Minato
By digging deep, seasoned writers transform themselves through the writing process. Reconcile your inner values and external realities through directed writings that address what makes you thrive and what makes you wither. Then use writing as a tool for personal growth while learning techniques to enhance your writing style.
401674 Sat. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN SOCIETY with Amy Minato
Society influences our lives, yet personal testimonies inspire social movements. Use a story familiar to you as an example to alert or inspire. Together, tease apart the personal and political in order to explore ways to effectively reweave them. Practice combining research with story to build a case for a cause.
403046 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITING FOR WELLNESS with Nancy Linnon
Reduce stress. Sleep better. Feel more relaxed. The practice of writing can help you achieve all of this and more. Research shows that writing improves immune function and overall well-being. Learn how to integrate the practice of writing into your days so that life feels richer and less fragmented. No positive feelings about writing required!
401618 Sat. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Jul. 13 $48 [1 classes]
MY DAY AT THE LIBRARY with Nate Orton & James Yeary
See the library as a book of its own: read from its resources of fiction, fact, art, and music; take the people and pages that surround you as sources; and respond through writing and artwork. Spend a day in the main branch of the Multnomah County Library downtown and be guided through models, examples, and exercises. The second week, make a Xeroxed zine comprising writings, drawings, and photographs from the excursion. Honor the computer-less tradition of zines by making this limited edition book with scissors, glue, and a photocopier.
403007 Sun. Jun. 23 12:00 - 4:00 pm & Jun. 30 12:00 - 3:00 pm $63 [2 classes]
WRITING EXPERIMENTS with James Yeary
Use this workshop as a playground to turn your work on its head, inside out, and into something entirely different. Engage in games, conduct experiments, and impose rules to create works you never expected. The results will be fun, silly, absurd, and exceptional. One hundred years of experimental writing techniques will be discussed and/or implemented, and maybe we’ll come up with some of our own.
401616 Tu. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 9 - 23 $48 [3 classes]
WRITING THROUGH LOSS with Judith Pulman
By exploring the tradition of expressing grief through ordered language, anyone can utilize rituals that promote understanding, acceptance, and eventual healing in the face of great difficulties. Survey stories and poems that take loss as their subject and sketch out pieces of your own. In the classroom’s safe space, give voice to the complexities of grief and in so doing, you might uncover what gives you life.
401673 Th. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 18 - Aug. 8 $64 [4 classes]
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
Spare Room at MP5: David Wolach and Valerie Wernet
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.
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.
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