Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Reading from Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Please join us tonight for a reading from the terrific new anthology, Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, published this month by the University of Arizona press.The book is divided into ten sections focused on significant social issues, including identity, sexuality and gender, the environment, social justice, work, war, and peace. One of the editors, Frances Payne Adler, will be here to discuss this collection of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues facing us today. Adler is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The making of a Matriot. Also reading tonight will be three other friends of the store. Paul Merchant is the William Stafford Archivist at Lewis & Clark College. His latest poetry collection, Some Business of Affinity, was an Oregon Book Award finalist in 2007. Sandy Polishuk is the author of Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruutila, and co-producer of the DVD, Good Work Sister! Women Shipyard Works of World War II. Willa Schneberg received the Oregon Book Award in poetry for In the Margins of the World. Her most recent collection, published by Calyx Books, is Storytelling in Cambodia.
Other Book Events Today:
Voices and Characters in Poetry (Sellwood-Moreland Library, @6:30pm): Portland poet Judith Arcana will read from her own work and that of other poets, and will talk about creating — and performing — voices and characters in poetry. As readers, we naturally think of fiction and drama in these terms. Judith encourages us to consider these same elements in lyric form, and will organize/direct some examples with audience participation.
Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Greif and Gratitude (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): This engaging anthology of poems brings together a range of responses to the experiences of death, mourning, and gratitude for lost loved ones, composed by a variety of poets, both emerging and well-known. These poems can provide insight, solace, and understanding. Editor Jim Perlman will join us from Duluth, MN along with local poets Carlos Reyes, Diane Averill, and Joseph Soldati, who all contributed to the anthology.
Jim Perlman is founding editor and publisher of Holy Cow! Press. He has edited two previous anthologies: Brother Songs: A Male Anthology of Poetry (1979) and, with Ed Folsom and Dan Campion, Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (1981; revised edition, 1998).
Rachel Simmons (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Join bestselling author and girl expert Rachel Simmons for a free, fun, back-to-school workshop on confident self-expression. Celebrate the release of The Curse of the Good Girl (Penguin Press), which seeks to free girls from the impossible standards of “the good girl” and encourage them to embrace their real selves.
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.
