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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Reading with Neeli Cherkovski (The Writers’ Dojo, @7:30pm): Neeli Cherkovski reads from his new book of poems, From The Canyon Outward. Cherkovski lives and writes in San Francisco. His poertry books include Animal, Elegy for Bob Kaufman, Leaning Against Time, which earned an PEN Award for Excellence in Literature, Fronteras Rotas, published in a bi-lingual edition, and the newly released From the Canyon Outward. Another collection, The Manila Poems, is forthcoming. He has also written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowskii, and is the author of a book of critical memoirs, Whitman’s Wild Children. For many years, Cherkvoski served as writer-in-residence at the now closed New College of California where he also taught literature and philosophy. He continues to teach poetics at various locales throughout the SF Bay Area and is completing a new memoir.
Other Book Events Today:
Friends of Hillsboro Library Fall Used Book Sale (Hillsboro Library-Main Branch, @10:00am-8:00pm): The Friends of the Hillsboro Public Library are having the Fall Book Sale in the Meeting Room during regular library hours. For more information about the Friends, visit their website at www.hillsborolibraryfriends.org.
Roving Writers Read + Open Mic (Flying Cat Coffee, @6:00pm): Prose and poetry on spookier subjects–such as skeletons in family closets and humans behaving monstrously. Thea Constantine, Gloria Geiser, Eleanor Malin, Luna Nova, Diana Rogero, Cecilie Scott, and Alida Thacher. Open mic to follow.
BACK FENCE PDX Presents: “I’ve Got Confidence” (IFCC, Doors @7:00pm/Show @8:00pm, $10 Tickets): Free cupcakes. Delicious vodka. People in costumes. Hilarity. What better way to spend Halloween weekend!?!?!?
Starring- EASTLAND ACADEMY: Funny, smart sketch comedy duo Frayn Masters, co-host of Back Fence PDX, and Shelley McLendon of The Liberators; AND SexyNurd: auGi Of Mortified performing his brand new one man show!
Free cupcakes from Saint Cupcake AND Vodka drinks from New Deal Vodka (with any size donation, like even a quarter) and beer, wine for sale. Come in costume to win prizes!
Zombie Night (Guapo Comics and Coffee, @7:00pm): Zombies + Guapo = best night ever! Doors at 7 and Movie at 8. Beer, popcorn, Zombies! Dress like a zombie and the event is FREE, dress like a civilian and it’s a $3 charge for not getting into the Halloween spirit.
Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Set in the year 2011, when an undead infestation devastates the world’s population, Don Roff’s Zombies (Chronicle) is a frightening new contribution to the massively popular zombie resurgence.
Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Elizabeth Beckwith’s Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation (Harper) spoofs traditional parenting guides while teaching parents how to employ the essential components of guilt and manipulation to mold their children.
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.
