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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Wordstock 2009 (Oregon Convention Center, 11:00am-5:00pm, $5): The largest celebration of literature and literacy in the Northwest, Wordstock is Portland’s annual festival of books, writers, and storytelling. Featured authors include James Ellroy, Scott Westerfeld, Jeannette Walls, and R. A. Salvatore. Oregon Book Award Finalists will take the stage, along with several other local authors. Don’t forget Wordstock is also for Teachers and Writers, as well as the “general Wordstock community” alike. Check out the Wordstock website for a full schedule of events.
Other Book Events Today:
Carol Frischman presents Pets and the Planet (Green Bean Books, @11:00pm): Pets and the Planet author, Carol Frischmann, will visit Green Bean Books to share information from her new guide book about how to be a sustainable pet owner. The Oregon Humane Society will also be present to offer information about their services and to provide two pets that will be available for adoption.
Flash Choir presents “Strangers Together” based on the poetry of William Stafford (Mississippi Studios, @3:00pm, $10): “Strangers Together” is a setting of 10 poems by Stafford’s book, Passwords. The songs are composed by Sarah Dougher, best known for her work as a solo folk-rock artist and music label owner, and are performed by the Flash Choir.
This project engages the work of Stafford, exploring in particular themes of human connection to animals and the divine, as well as human connection with other humans. Most experience poetry sitting, silently, reading. The choral rendition of these words in a public space will create an opportunity for communal listening, and most certainly a new way of hearing and understanding the work of Oregon’s first Poet Laureate. This project is sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Sister Spit: Next Generation (Mississippi Studios, @8:00pm, $10): As part of the closing night for Wordstock the magnificent underground female-centric brilliance that is Sister Spit will read. Readers include Michelle Tea, Beth Lisick, Sara Seinberg, Kirya Traber, Rhiannon Argo, Ariel Schrag, Ben McCoy, and special guests Nicole J. Georges and Dexter Flowers.
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.
