Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Caffeinated Art #79 (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Portland poets Zachary Schomburg, Sarah Bartlett, and Emily Kendal Frey will read.
Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009), and several chapbooks including, most recently, a trilogy of collaborations with Emily Kendal Frey: Team Sad (Cinematheque Press), Feelings Using Wolves (Small Fires Press), and OK, Goodnight (Futuretense Books). His translations from the Russian of Andrei Sen-Senkov have been published in Circumference, Jacket, The Agriculture Review and others. He teaches film and writing at Portland State University and Portland Community College.
Sarah Bartlett lives in Portland, OR. Her chapbook (co-written with Chris Tonelli), A Mule-Shaped Cloud, was published by horse less press in 2008. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Coconut, Sir!, Sixth Finch, Diagram, and elsewhere. Poems co-written with Emily Kendal Frey have appeared or are forthcoming in New Pony: A horse less Anthology, sub-Lit, Portland Review, Caffeine Destiny, Alice Blue, and Bat City.
Emily Kendal Frey is the author of Airport (Blue Hour Press 2009) and, collaboratively with Zachary Schomburg, Team Sad (Cinematheque Press 2010). She teaches at Portland Community College.
Other Book Events Today:
Ink-Filled Page: Red Anthology Reading (Lili Patisserie Cafe, @7:00pm): Red Anthology, the latest collection from the Ink-Filled Page literary and arts journal, succeeds in tracing the vibrant hues of life through the black ink on the page. Local contributing authors Claire Rudy Foster, Andrew S. Fuller, and Cecilie Scott will read selections of their recent work. The pieces highlight struggle with personal memories, the writing of a new page on the back of the old. Refreshments will be graciously provided by the Lili Patisserie Cafe, so come sample the stories and sweets.
Audrey Niffenegger (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Audrey Niffenegger, author of the phenomenally successful novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, returns with Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner), a spectacularly compelling and haunting second book set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. “[G]orgeously rendered, utterly bewitching, and profoundly unnerving,” raves Booklist (starred review).
Elizabeth Gilbert (Bagdad Theater, @7:00pm): Picking up where her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love left off, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed (Viking) details the extraordinary circumstances that surround her love with Felipe, the man she swore never to marry. “Presented in the author’s easy-going, conversational style, the material is intriguing and often insightful,” says Kirkus Reviews. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $27, include admission and a copy of Committed, and are available at the Bagdad Theater, the Crystal Ballroom, and Ticketmaster.
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series Features: Hasan Elahi (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): Hasan Elahi will lecture about his work! The public is invited (its free, tell your friends)
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 credit Show and Tell Gallery.
