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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
WITS Student Reading (Powells City of Books, @7:00pm): Writers in the Schools (WITS), a program of Literary Arts, celebrates the release of their new anthology, A Whole New Subject, featuring poems, prose, drama, and comics written by Portland public high-school students who participated in semester-long creative writing residencies taught by local professional writers. Enjoy readings by students, their high-school teachers, and WITS writers.
Other Book Events Today:
Opening Night for “Animated Nature: An Exhibition of 18th Century Prints” (Ampersand, @6:00pm): Our February show features original antique engravings from the first American edition of An History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith. More images & information here.
Open Mic Night (Lake Oswego Library, @6:30pm): Get discovered at the Lake Oswego Library! Come share your art and be inspired by the talent of your community. Join us for our monthly Open Mic Program. Sign up begins at 6:30 p.m. and performances start at 7:00 p.m. Performances are limited to five minutes. We welcome singers, poets, dramatic readers and more! Everyone is welcome—to participate or to listen.
William Stafford Celebratory Reading (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Please join us for our annual celebration of William Stafford’s birthday. Tonight’s event will be hosted by Joanna Rose and will feature Stevan Allred, Jane Glazer, John Morrison, and FWS Board Member Don Colburn. Bring your favorite Stafford poem to read as your gift!
Friends of Mystery Bloody Thursdays XXIV featuring John Kroger (Terwilliger Plaza, @7:30pm): Friends of Mystery hosts Oregon Attorney General John Kroger, this year’s Oregon Book Award winner for Creative Non-Fiction for his book Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves. The event will begin with a reception at 7:00 pm, followed by the program at 7:30 pm. The meeting is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the lots just east across 6th Avenue from the lower level entrance. Handicapped parking is available at the upper level entrance. Tri-Met bus #8, Jackson Park, stops just in front of the lower level entrance.
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 Literary Arts.
