Stephanie Young, Dana Ward & Cynthia Sailers at the Clinton Corner Cafe

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Tangent Reading Series Presents Stephanie Young, Dana Ward & Cynthia Sailers (Clinton Corner Cafe, @7:00pm): Tangent is pleased to host three exciting new voices in poetry. Poet and editor STEPHANIE YOUNG’s second collection, Picture Palace, is just out with Joshua Clover’s new press, and her web project, Deep Oakland (www.deepoakland.org), explores the frontiers of text, history, art, and place. Bay Area poet, therapist, and cineaste CYNTHIA SAILERS will be launching her new Cy Press chapbook, Ladies of Leisure, with Cy Press publisher DANA WARD on hand from Cincinnati to read from his own 2009 publications, Roseland and the Drought. Admission is free.

STEPHANIE YOUNG lives and works in Oakland. Her books of poetry are Picture Palace (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, 2008) and Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005). She edited the popular anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) and her most recent editorial project is Deep Oakland (www.deepoakland.org).

DANA WARD is the author of a couple of books that just came out in 2009—Roseland (Editions Louis Wain) & the Drought (Open 24hrs). He lives in Cincinnati, edits Cy Press, & works as an advocate for adult literacy at the Over-the-Rhine Learning Center.

CYNTHIA SAILERS is the author of the poetry collections Lake Systems (Tougher Disguises, 2004) and Rose Lungs (Atticus/Finch, 2004). She is writing a dissertation on perversion and group psychology at Berkeley’s The Wright Institute. She is currently in private practice as a therapist in San Francisco and works at a publicly funded clinic in the Mission, where she leads a process group for women. She serves on the board for Small Press Traffic, and is expecting a new book, Ladies of Leisure, this June from Cy Press.

Other Book Event’s Today:

Powells at The Portland Farmers Market (Portland Farmers Market, @8:30am): Join us the last Saturday of each month at the Portland Farmers Market in the South Park Blocks at PSU in the South Park Blocks at PSU. Seasonally appropriate books will help market-goers prepare and store their bounty — and even grow some of their own food. The 2009 series includes:

• June 27: Birds and Bugs — The care and feeding of chickens and bees
• July 25: Berries — Cook ‘em, eat ‘em, store ‘em
• August 29: BBQ — Build it and they will come
• September 26: Preserving — Capturing the harvest
• October 24: Fun with Fungi — Hunting and cooking the elusive mushroom

Throughout the summer, local authors will be stopping by the booth to sign and talk about their books. This month’s selection will feature books on the care and feeding of chickens and bees. Lisa Weasel, author of Food Fray, will join us at our booth to sign copies of her book from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Larry Korn, translator of The One-Straw Revolution, will sign from 10 a.m. to noon.

Bookfair at Barnes and Noble for Banks Public Library (Barnes & Noble Tanasbourne, from 9:00am to 11:00pm): Shop at Barnes and Noble this weekend and your purchase will help the library! Mention the Banks Public Library or present a voucher and a portion of your purchase will be donated to the library. The library will also have a wish list of books for the library.

1st Annual Northwest Book Festival (21860 Willamette Drive, West Linn, 97068, @10:00am): Over 40 authors will be speaking and signing their books at the 1st Annual Northwest Book Festival, held Saturday June 27 at 21860 Willamette Drive, West Linn, OR 97068, from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

Best of Oregon Food and Wine Festival (Oregon Convention Center, @12:00pm): The Best of Oregon Food and Wine Festival will showcase the best of Oregon’s culinary culture — world-class wineries, restaurants, and culinary artisans. The event runs from noon to 7 p.m. and a portion of the proceeds benefit Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. Please note: This is a ticketed event. For ticket details, visit the festival website.

Join Powell’s at the festival for cookbook signings with these authors:

12-1 p.m. Cory Schreiber, Rustic Fruit Desserts
1-2 p.m. Kimberly Paley, The Paley’s Place Cookbook
2-3 p.m. William King & Rick Schafer, The Vintner’s Kitchen
3-4 p.m. Tami Parr, Artisan Cheese of the Pacific Northwest
4-5 p.m. Martha Holmberg, Puff
5-6 p.m. Linda Ziedrich, Joy of Pickling and Joy of Jams, Jellies and Other Sweet Preserves
6-7 p.m. Gary Puetz, Cooking with the Seafood Steward

Richie Unterberger Reading (Central Library, @1:00pm): Richie Unterberger will discuss his new book White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day. The presentation will include rare recordings and film footage discussed in the book, a comprehensive overview of the legendary band that draws on about 100 first-hand interviews, and numerous previously undiscovered archive sources. The result is a passionate, articulate and immensely detailed history, the most thorough work on the Velvet Underground yet published. San Francisco resident Unterberger is the author of numerous rock history books, including Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll and a two-volume history of 1960s folk-rock, Turn! Turn! Turn! and Eight Miles High. His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music & Film won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

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.