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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Spare Room presents Nico Vassilakis Crystal Curry (Concordia Coffee House, @7:30pm, $5 suggested donation): The Spare Room Reading Series features poetry from Nico Vassilakis and Crystal Curry.
Nico Vassilakis works with alphabet both textually and visually. Recent books include Protracted Type (Blue Lion), Disparate Magnets (BlazeVOX), staReduction (Book Thug), and Text Loses Time (Many Penny). His visual poems and videos have been shown at festivals and exhibitions of innovative language art, and can be found online at Flickr and YouTube. Nico is a founding member of Seattle’s Subtext Collective.
Crystal Curry‘s poems and reviews have appeared both off and online in journals such as VERSE, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Open City, The Hat, Octopus Magazine and Action, Yes. She is the author of the chapbook Logotherapy Pant (Cosa Nostra) and the forthcoming full-length collection Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium, which was selected by Dara Wier for the Slope Editions Book Prize. She currently resides in Seattle, where she manages a gourmet deli and grades composition papers online.
Other Book Events Today:
OryCon31 (Portland Doubletree Hotel, 10:00am, $60 Full Weekend, Daily Rates Also Available): Highlighted guests include: Patricia Briggs, Lou Anders, Lubov, Jeff Hitchin, and Chris Lester. Events include: Writers Workshops, Open Reading Critiques, Panel Discussions, Art Show, Dance, and much more. See the conference website for a full list of the weekend’s events.
Ampersand Thanksgiving Sale (Ampersand, 12:00pm): It’s official. Ampersand has been open for exactly one year (+10 days). Time for Thanksgiving indeed! To express our gratitude to all the artists, collectors & customers who made this such a great year, we’d like to offer 15% off all items at Ampersand thru November 30th. Just mention this post when you stop in.
Sci-Fi Authorfest III Booksigning (Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @4:00pm): 17 local sci-fi authors will sign their books. Learn more here.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
