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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
True Stories IX (Mississippi Studios, @8:00pm, $12): This is much better than the late-night wars. At least we’re trying to humiliate ourselves… Tonight, you’re in for some truthiness of the highest order from Portland’s only music and memoir series. Featuring: Courtenay Hameister – head writer and host(ess) of Live Wire Radio; Scott Poole – poet and author of Hiding from Salesman; Stacy Bolt – Live Wire! contributor; Margaret Malone (see Reading Local’s interview with Margaret here); AND MUSICAL GUESTS Holcombe Waller- singer-songwriter and performance artist; Jim Brunberg – accomplished songwriter and musician. AND ONE SECRET GUEST A local writer who’s been getting a wee bit of press of late. Ahem.
Other Book Events Today:
Charity Night for In Other Words Books (Lucy’s Table, 5pm-9pm): Go to Lucy’s Table; sit in the dining room; tell them you are there for the charity night for In Other Words; 10% of your dinner tab will be donated to IOW! So go eat a great meal at a nice restaurant AND donate to a very worthy cause at the same time!
William Stafford Birthday Celebration (Lake Oswego Public Library, @7:00pm): The Friends of William Stafford and the Lake Oswego Public Library invites you to the annual William Stafford Birthday Celebration. This year the event, “The Intersection of Poetry and Popular Culture, in the Spirit of William Stafford” will be hosted by Lake Oswego resident and Friends of William Stafford Board Member, Scot Siegel, and will feature Michael Chasar, David Filer, Deb Stone, and FWS Board Member Patricia Carver.
William Stafford was born in Kansas in 1914. In 1948, he moved to Oregon to teach at Lewis and Clark College. His first major collection of poems, Traveling Through the Dark, was published when Stafford was 48, and it won the National Book Award in 1963. From 1970 to 1971, Stafford was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Stafford published numerous volumes of poetry and prose during his lifetime and won numerous additional awards.
William Stafford Memorial Reading (University of Portland, The Terrace Room, @7:00): William Stafford’s birthday is celebrated with readings from Bryan Beck, Sarah Brant, Rita Ott Ramstad, Andrew Michael Roberts, B.T. Shaw, and FWS Board Member Tim Barnes. Hosted by Herman Asarnow.
Kim Stafford performs from Pilgrim at Home (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): Following the release of Kim Stafford’s “Wheel Made of Wind: Thirteen Songs of the Oregon Country” in 1998, “Pilgrim at Home” features new songs that celebrate encounters by the road—with a witness in New Orleans, a lonesome woman at the Kaupo Store, the family of three lost boys in Rasharkin, a homeless saint in Portland, and other precious strangers.
The new CD is part of an on-going project by Portland songwriter Kim Stafford to record the experience of a pilgrim in search of the story-telling stranger, the healing spring, the “thin place” of revelation, the vagabond with a gift of witness.
Sid Miller (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Sid Miller (see Reading Local’s interview with Sid here), editor of the Burnside Review, explores seven routes from the coast to the mountains, from inner-city Portland to the Idaho border. Dot-to-Dot, Oregon (Ooligan Press), a collection of 50 poems, travels through the cities, towns, and monuments of Oregon.
Douglas Brinkley (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In his groundbreaking biography The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Harper) Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to offer a penetrating and colorful look at Roosevelt’s naturalist achievements, a legacy now more important than ever as we face the problems of global warming, overpopulation, and sustainable land management.
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.
Image courtesy of True Stories
