Reading Local: Portland

Today’s Featured Book Event:

I Grew Up In Amaltherey Hill Release Party (Opposable Thumbs Gallery, @6:00pm): PATIENT, FOLDED HANDS PUBLISHING is a new Portland-based publisher of dark fiction. We will be celebrating the first book of this brand new company with the release of ‘I Grew Up In Amaltherey Hill‘, a lonely novella by Jaret Ferratusco, Portland author of the short story collection ‘Please Don’t Leave Me’ and creator of Patient, Folded Hands. If you’re into dark fiction, please come and get boozed up and celebrate with us.  Check out Reading Local’s interview with Jaret Ferratusco.

Other Book Events Today:

Keep Portland Weird! A Community Festival (Central Library, 12:00-4:00pm): Portland is a place of passionate people pursuing interesting, and sometimes strange, pastimes. Join us for a day of discovery as a wide variety of organizations share what they do and why they do it.  See the library website for a full schedule of events.

Winona Dimeo-Ediger presents Closet Confidential (Barnes & Noble-Tanasbourne, @2:00pm): Meet local author Winona Dimeo-Ediger, creator of the popular Daddy Likey blog. Her first book, Closet Confidential, is a collection of humorous stories about fashion and life. A local favorite!

Wanderlust and Lipstick: Traveling with Kids (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @2:00pm): Combining anecdotes and experiences from nearly 50 mothers, Michelle Duffy’s Wanderlust and Lipstick (Dispatch Travels) is a positive and inspirational guide that reveals how to overcome some of the more difficult barriers to traveling with children, with ease and convenience in mind.

Vox: A Spoken-Word Chorus Presents Portland’s Actors Reading America’s Poetry (The Waterbrook Studio, @7:30pm, $10-15): Portland actors: Gary Brickner-Schulz, Adrienne Flagg, Eric Hull, Theresa Koon, Quigley Provost-Landrum, Kerry Ryan, and John Vergin will read poems from: Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare, Michele Glazer, William Stafford, Li-Young Lee, Jorie Graham, Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, Marvin Bell, Kamau Daaood, Mary Szybist, Thomas Lux and more..

Poem Arrangements by Eric Hull. Tickets are available at the door on a sliding scale, $10-15.  Learn more at the VOX website.

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.

Author: Gabe Barber

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