Market Day Poetry Series at St. John's Booksellers

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Market Day Poetry Series (St. Johns Booksellers, 12:00pm): A collaboration between St. Johns Books and the new St. Johns Farmers’ Market, this event occurs each Saturday at noon during the market season.  Join us each week for fresh, luscious words from new and established Northwest poets in this series curated by Dan Raphael.

Today’s host is David Abel, a founding organizer of the Spare Room reading series [see below], and the editor/publisher of the Envelope broadside series. His most recent chapbook, Commonly, was published this spring by airfoil. He has been active in interdisciplinary projects in Portland for many years as a collaborator, curator, and performer.

Also appearing:

Sam Lohmann is the publisher of Peaches & Bats, which moves from annual to semiannual frequency with the forthcoming issue. He is also the copublisher of the monthly email newsletter What We Are Learning.  He is the author of several chapbooks; Onlooking is forthcoming this summer from airfoil.

Allison Cobb is the author of the poetry collection Born2 from Chax Press, a chronicle of Los Alamos, New Mexico — her birthplace and the home of the atomic bomb. Her work has been published widely, and she is the recipient of a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Portland.

Other Book Event’s Today:

Powell’s at The Farmers Market (South Park Blocks at PSU, 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:

• April 25: Going to Seed — Seed gardening and composting
• May 30: Localvores — Preparing local food and eating locally
• 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 berries. Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson will join us to sign copies of their book, Rustic Fruit Desserts, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Portland Zine Symposium (PSU’s Smith Memorial Ballroom, 10:00am-5:00pm): The Portland Zine Symposium aims to promote greater community between diverse creators of independent publications and art. This fun and free event helps people share their work while exchanging their skills and information related to zine culture. Throughworkshops, panels and discussions, Portland Zine Symposium explores the role and effect of all types of zines. Click here for a full schedule of events.

Circles of Memory: An Introduction to Oral History (St. Johns Booksellers, 2:00pm): “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms,” wrote author Muriel Rukeyser.

Kay Reid, an oral historian who lives in the New Columbia neighborhood, knows this to be the truth, and she also knows that every person and family has a unique and compelling story. She has recorded 130 of these stories for families and organizations. Kay will give a “starter” workshop on how people can preserve and record the stories of their families, friends, colleagues, and community organizations.

Spare Room presents Jennifer Bartlett, Sarah Mangold, & Lindsey Boldt (4903 SE Rural-south of Woodstock, between 39th and 52nd-, @4:00pm): NOTE: This is a house reading and potluck hosted by Maryrose Larkin and Eric Matchett; all are welcome. Parking is on the south side of Rural, or in the driveway.

Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Her first collection is Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press, 2007). Individual poems from her [Husband] series are in the current New American Writing.

Sarah Mangold is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues) and the chapbooks Parlor (Dusie Kollectiv), Picture of the Basket (Dusie kollectiv), Boxer Rebellion (g o n g), and Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets). She lives in Seattle where she edits Bird Dog. She also co-edits, with Maryrose Larkin, FLASH + CARD, a chapbook and ephemera press.

Lindsey Boldt lives in San Francisco, where she works as an assistant editor with Post-Apollo Press and an after-school teacher with elementary kids. She is currently working on a book of Titty Poems, a retelling of the movie Overboard, and a collaboration with artist Morgan Levy on poems about the importance of ponies in the lives of girl-children. She is very proud of her blog because it brings her joy. She’s glad to know you.

PZS Movie Night (Hawthorne Hostel, @7:00pm): The Hawthorne Hostel is pleased to partner with the Portland Zine Symposium this year. On Saturday, July 25th starting at 7 pm we’ll have an outdoor Movie Night in our spacious side yard. Movies related to zines and the Do-It-Yourself spirit will be shown, along with refreshments and music.

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week, please check the list.