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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Verse In Person presents Floyd Skloot and Willa Schneberg (Northwest Library, @7:00pm): Two much acclaimed, award-winning poets, Floyd Skloot and Willa Schneberg, read their work.
Floyd Skloot has published 15 books, most recently “The Snow’s Music” (LSU Press, 2008), his sixth collection of new poems, and the memoir ‘The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life” (U. of Nebraska Press, 2008), named one of the top 10 northwest books of 2008 by “The Oregonian.” His “Selected Poems: 1970-2005″ (Tupelo Press, 2008) won a Pacific NW Book Award and a silver prize from ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year awards. Skloot has received three Pushcart Prizes, won a PEN USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction (for his 2003 memoir “In the Shadow of Memory”), and Oregon Book Awards in both poetry and creative nonfiction. His work has twice been included in the annual “Best American Essays,” “Best American Science Writing” and “Best Spiritual Writing” anthologies, and once in the “Best Food Writing.” A short story of his is included in the new anthology, “Portland Noir.” He lives in Portland with his wife, Beverly Hallberg, a painter whose work graces the covers of four of his books.
Willa Schneberg is a photographer, a ceramic sculptor and a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Portland. She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently “Storytelling in Cambodia.” Her second collection, “In the Margins of the World,” Plain View Press, was awarded the 2002 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Garrison Keillor read “Biscuits” a poem from that volume, on “The Writer’s Almanac.” Through Poetry-In-Motion, a line from one of her poems can be found on busses and Max trains in Portland. Willa read at the Library of Congress during their “Poetry at Noon” series and has received many writing fellowships.
This monthly program is organized by local poets Barbara LaMorticella, Robert Davies, and Mike Ferrell, who draw on their extensive contacts in the Oregon poetry community to highlight two to three poets each reading.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Lance Allred Reading (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Longshot (HarperOne), Lance Allred, the first legally deaf player in the NBA, chronicles his unlikely journey from a polygamous compound in Montana to playing with the Cleveland Cavaliers. “Allred’s voice is humorously self-deprecating and youthfully winning,” cheers Publishers Weekly.
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.
