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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Caffeinated Art #62 – Teresa Boze, Bill Cameron and Liz Grover (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): People accuse Teresa of being merrily dystopian, writing stories of loose morals and no arc, and not “getting” Seth Godin. Yup. Pretty much. Still, she pulls down kudos from the likes of Oregon Writer’s Colony and VoiceCatcher. She penned her first story in 2008 for an old friend, in the dangerous style of Tom Spanbauer and the experiential minimalism of Amy Hempel, expressly as an exercise to show him how to win a literary award. And it did. She tweets as PDXsays, and is known to dabble in copywriting, PR journalism,and documentary film.
Bill Cameron is the author of the dark, gritty Portland-based mysteries Lost Dog, Chasing Smoke, and Day One. His stories have appeared in Spinetingler, Killer Year, Portland Noir and the forthcoming First Thrills. He is a member of Friends of Mystery, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. He tweets as bcmystery.
Liz Grover is a global mystic activist with village ideals. Rar! She tweets as lilbutterfly.
Other Book Events Today:
Naseem Rakha presents The Crying Tree (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Dramatic, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting, The Crying Tree is an unforgettable book about the unbreakable bonds of family and the transformative power of forgiveness.
Shortly after Irene and Nate Stanley move their family to a small town in Oregon, their fifteen-year-old son, Shep, is shot and killed during an apparent robbery in their home. The murderer, Daniel Robbin, is caught and sentenced to death.
Irene spends years waiting for Robbin’s execution and the justice she feels she and her family deserve. Ultimately, faced with a growing sense that his death won’t stop her pain, Irene reaches out to her son’s killer. The two forge an unlikely connection that remains a secret from her family and friends. As Daniel’s date nears, the Stanley’s must face difficult truths and find a way to come to terms with the past.
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): From the creator of the YouTube sensation “The Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See,” What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (Perigree Books) is an intriguing and provocative guide to help readers make sense of the contradictory statements about global climate change. For those who want to take action, Greg Craven provides a solution that is not only powerful but also stunningly easy.
Naming Nature (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Biologist and journalist Carol Kaesuk Yoon tells the surprising story of the poetic and deeply human capacity to name the natural world. Naming Nature: The Clash between Instinct and Science (W. W. Norton) takes us beyond genus and species to deep cognition, revealing our drive to name life.
Talking Earth featuring Tiel Aisha Ansari, Marianne Kleczyk and Daniel Skach Mills (Streaming Live on KBOO.fm, @10:00pm): Tiel Ansari is a Sufi, martial artist, and computer programmer living in Portland. She approaches poetry as a game, a discipline, and an ecstatic practice. Her work has appeared in print and online, and was featured on Garrion Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. Her first poetry collection, Knocking from Inside, was published by Ecstatic Exchange in 2008. Her lively and beautiful blog is updated often, and has links to various writing resources:
knockingfrominside.blogspot.com.
After years of traveling and adventuring around the world, working as a cowgirl, policewoman, racecar driver, lifeguard, and a computer specialist, Marianne Klekacz settled down with her husband to nourish 100 acres of mixed-tree forest in the coast range mountains. Her work ranges as widely as her life has, from science to the heart, from a unflinching, clear-eyed view of the failure of love to an open hearted expression of its feeling; from the dark history of Vietnam and its aftermath to the present moment of an artist singing her life. As Peter Sears wrote about Marianne’s 2009 book “When Words Fail”– these poems are exhilirating.
Daniel Skach-Mills was born in Idaho and raised in Portland. His work has appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies, including the Christian Science Monitor and Prayers to Protest: Poems that Center and Bless Us. His newest book, published by Ken Arnold books, is The Tao of Now. An instructor and spiritual teacher, he has lived both as a Benedictine and a Trappist monk, and is currently a volunteer docent for the Portland Classic Chinese Garden. He and his partner live in Portland, Oregon
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.
