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My AccountTodays Featured Book Event:
1,000 Words One Year Anniversary Reading & Matthew Hattie Hein Bon Voyage Party (The Maiden, @7:00pm): Please join the 1,000 Words Reading Series for our one-year anniversary and local all-around performer Matthew Hattie Hein’s bon voyage party. Four great writers—Matthew Hattie Hein, Kristy Athens, Parker Staley, and Geneva Chao, will each read four tiny pieces written for the occasion over the past month, based on a set of prompts and arbitrary rules provided by series curator Mel Favara on the theme TRANSIT. It will be fast and fancy if not furious. Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet will also play.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Zero Waste: A Key Move Towards a Sustainable Society (University of Portland Buckley Center, Room 163, @1:30pm): Environmental activist Paul Connett will discuss his latest article “Zero Waste: A Key Move Towards a Sustainable Society,” at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 2 in Room 163 of the Buckley Center on the University of Portland campus, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
A chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., Connett is an internationally respected authority on waste management issues and sustainable living practices. He has co-authored six peer-reviewed articles on dioxin and numerous other articles on waste management. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said of Connett, “He is the only person I know who can make waste interesting.”
Macintosh Users Group: Graphics/Video (Powells Technical Books, @7:00pm): Join us the first Monday of every month for a Graphics/Video meeting with like-minded Mac geeks. Bring your questions and tips to share with the group.
Lono Waiwaiole Reading (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @ 7:00pm): Dark Paradise (McMillan), the latest novel from 2003 Oregon Book Award winner Lono Waiwaiole, is set on the Big Island in Hawaii and examines the underside of that celebrated environment. Mix two boys who want to control the same drug trade, throw in some Japanese and Mexican gangsters, add the biggest drug bust in the history of the island, and what do you get? A dark paradise, indeed.
Adam Bradley Reading (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In Book of Rhymes (Basic Civitas Books) Adam Bradley, one of the brightest young scholars of hip-hop studies, celebrates the lyrics of hip-hop as the most vivid, most revolutionary form of American poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America’s least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves. “This refreshing read challenges common assumptions that hip-hop is simple or mundane,” cheers Library Journal.
Illustrator Nikki McClure (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): All in a Day (Abrams Books for Young Readers) is a lovely book that illuminates all the possibilities a day offers — the opportunities and chances that won’t ever come again — and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant’s poetic text, alongside Nikki McClure’s stunning, meticulously crafted cut-paper art, makes this picture book not only timeless but appealing to readers of all ages.
Please check your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week please check the list.
