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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Peaches and Bats Volume 4 Launch Party featuring Jesse Morse, Phoebe Wayne, and Sam Lohmann (Reading Frenzy @7:30pm): Join us to celebrate the fourth issue of Peaches and Bats — a locally published zine focusing on innovative poetry — with Jesse Morse, Phoebe Wayne, and P&B editor Sam Lohmann.
Peaches and Bats 4 also includes work by Tom Blood, Laynie Browne, Marcella Durand, Mickey O’Connor, Elena Rivera, and Andrei Sen-Senkov (translated from the Russian by Zachary Schomburg), plus a special feature with an interview, a collage and “Three Revisions” by David Shapiro. Peaches and Bats #4 sports 68-pages with a handsewn binding and letterpressed cover printed at Portland’s Independent Publishing Resource Center. More information is available at Peaches and Bats Blague.
Jesse Morse lives and writes out of Portland. Some of his “Eric Chavez Sonnets” appear online at Hobart. Poems forthcoming in Vanitas and Page Boy. Reviews he wrote live online at Jacket and Octopus. He hosts readings under the header Smorg to combat the heavy sadness the long Northwest winter brings about.
Phoebe Wayne did a master’s program in poetry at UC Davis, and is now back in her hometown of Portland, where she works at a library. Other recent work appears in Vanitas and With + Stand, and a chapbook called Lovejoy is forthcoming.
Sam Lohmann edits Peaches and Bats in Portland. His chapbook Onlooking is forthcoming from Airfoil.
Other Book Events Today:
Summer Thursday’s at ACP: Heather Vogel Frederick (A Childrens Place Bookstore, @1:00pm): During the bright, fun days of summertime, come join your friends at ACP for “Summer Thursdays.” Each Thursday at 1:00, the store will host various events from sidewalk-chalk art drawing to author workshop visits. Sure to be fun for all. Joining ACP this Thursday will be Heather Vogel Frederick, author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club.
Show: Angie Evans & Amber Darland (In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources, @5:00pm): Angie Evans produces music that is thought provoking and tasty. Her poetic lyrics and soulful voice speak of love, sex, passion and consciousness. One listen will leave you feeling liberated, motivated and full of positive energy. Angie’s debut album ‘Cycle of Fruit’ was released in 2008 on Independent Freedom Tribe label and is now available on www.angieevans.com and www.myspace.com/angievans Angie believes in sisterhood, pride, good espresso, handmade organic bar soap, pino grigio on a cold day, green vegetables and using the “F” word as much as possible. Say it with me….. “FEMINISM, FEMINISM, FEMINIST!”
Amber Darland is one of the most exciting up-and-coming folk/pop singer songwriters of the Pacific Northwest. Her music is compelling because it’s both political and deeply personal – and by design, purposeful. Darland’s delivery of powerful, honest poetry with pure vocals, strong melodies, infectious rhythms and personal stories keep the audience engaged and experiencing a wave of emotions. In August 2009, Amber Darland will begin her 2009/10 national touring schedule to promote the release of her debut full-length album “Truce”. www.amberdarland.com
S.M. Stirling (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Bestselling author S. M. Stirling continues his “epic of survival and rebirth” (Library Journal) with The Sword of the Lady (Tor), the third novel in his Change series, which chronicles a modern world without technology. Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed far across the land that was once the United States of America, hoping to find the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as The Change. His final destination is Nantucket, an island inhabited by a mere 200 people who claim to have been transported there from out of time. There, Rudi finds a beautifully made sword waiting for him — and once he takes it up, nothing will ever be the same.
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In his autobiography The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education (Penguin Press), Army Ranger Craig Mullaney recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war, and he reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow. “Almost impossible to put down for anyone interested in the modern U.S. Army or in modern warfare in general,” declares Booklist.
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.
