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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Mountain Writers presents Jim Kopp (The Press Club, @7:30pm): Jim Kopp is Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University and other graduate degrees in history and library science. His undergraduate degree in history and English is from the University of Oregon. His book, Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage (OSU Press, 2009) surveys nearly three hundred communal groups attempted or planned in Oregon over the past 150 years. He has written and presented on several aspects of utopian studies in both its literary and communal manifestations. His extensive private collection on the works by and about Edward Bellamy and of American utopian literature is described in a book published last fall by Berberis Press at Lewis & Clark. He lives with his wife, Sue, appropriately in Aurora, Oregon, which was the earliest communal settlement in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to his varied scholarly pursuits, Jim is completing a children’s book on Aurora Keil the daughter of the founder of the Aurora Colony and for whom the colony was named who died of smallpox in 1862 at the age of thirteen.
Other Book Events Today:
Free Puppet Show (Green Bean Books, @4:00pm): Come see a free puppet show based on the book The Mitten and performed by the talented Yvonne De Maat of Heart in Hand Preschool. The show is appropriate for kids ages 3-7 years old and will be limited to the first 15 who arrive.
Simple Handmade Books (Albina Library, @5:30pm): Artist Dawn Grunwald will show you how to bind your own books using the ancient technique of Japanese stab binding. Each student will make sample journals from reclaimed paper to practice several styles.
William Stafford Memorial Reading (100th Monkey Studio, @7:00pm): As part of the world-wide celebration of William Stafford’s birthday, Don Colburn and Heidi Schulman Greenwald will read their favorite Stafford poems and their own work. We also invite open mic. readers to read their favorite Stafford poem and one of their own (two page max for open mic. readers). Hosted by Steve Williams and Constance Hall.
KMO and Neil Kramer (Lucky Lab Beer Hall, @7:00pm, $10 suggested donation): Join alternative journalist bloggers KMO and Neil Kramer at the Lucky Lab Beer Hall for conversation covering a lot of ground n the spheres of independent media, consciousness, transitioning communities, alternative thinking and the creative arts.
The Death and Life of American Journalism (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Journalism is not just threatened; it’s in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism (Nation Books), Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols explore whether the government should intervene to save newspapers — and, more importantly, journalism — from corporate cutbacks and closures.
William Stafford Memorial Reading (Annie Blooms Books, @7:30pm): Join Annie Bloom’s and the Friends of William Stafford in celebrating the birthday of Oregon’s great Poet Laureate. As your gift, please bring along a favorite Stafford poem to read. The celebration will be open to those in the audience who wish to participate.
Hosted by local poet Jess Lamb, the evening’s scheduled readers are: Kirsten McAteer, Kirsten Rian, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Ger Killeen, and FWS Board member & Chair Shelley Reece.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.
