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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Laurie Lamon & Michele Glazer (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Tonight we are joined by two Northwest poets, Laurie Lamon and Michele Glazer, who will read from their works. Glazer, who lives in Portland, received her MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently a professor of creative writing at Portland State University. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Aggregate of Disturbances and It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We’d Come to See. Lamon, who received her doctorate from the University of Utah, is currently a professor of English at Whitworth University in Spokane. Her second collection of poetry, Without Wings, has just been released by CavanKerry Press. Her first collection was The Fork Without Hunger.
Other Book Events Today:
Jeff Kinney Booksigning (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @5:00pm): Jeff Kinney’s internationally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series continues with Dog Days (Amulet Books). Greg is living out his ultimate summer fantasy of no responsibilities and no rules — but his mom has a different vision for an ideal summer. Please note: This is a booksigning only. The event is free, but a ticket is required to go through the signing line. Tickets are available the day of the event, and each is numbered indicating your place in line. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Prompt: W.A.P. Writing Workshop (Powells City of Books, @6:15pm): Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. This dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. For more information and to register, contact W.A.P. at 503-796-9224.
Gary Vaynerchuk (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Crush It! (HarperStudio), online-marketing trailblazer Vaynerchuk tells business owners what they need to do to boost their sales using the Internet — just as he has done to build his family’s wine store into a multi-million dollar business.
Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Compiled by two longtime Bay Area journalists, Gimme Something Better (Penguin) chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.
Talking Earth (KBOO.FM-90.7, @10:00pm): A reading of poems from all *five finalists for the Oregon Book Award in Poetry: Alicia Cohen, Matthew Dickman, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Andrew Michael Roberts and Crystal Williams. TE host Barbara LaMorticella is joined in the studio by Alicia Cohen, Endi Hartigan, and Susan Denning, Director of Programs and Events for Literary Arts.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
