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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Milwaukie Poetry Series featuring Penelope Scambly Schott (Milwaukie Ledding Library, @7:00pm): Penelope Scambly Schott has worked as a donut maker in a cider mill, a home health aide, an artist’s model and through it all a professor of English at Rutgers University. After many years in rural New Jersey, Ms. Schott moved to Portland where she writes, paints, hikes and spoils her husband and her current dog – more, she says, than it would have been safe to spoil her children. She has published a novel, four chapbooks, and four books of poetry — Penelope: the Story of the Half-Scalped Woman and the Pest Maiden are both verse narratives. The Perfect Mother and Baiting the Void are collections of poems. Ms. Schott’s poetry has received glowing reviews. Kathryn Stripling Byer, the Poet Laureate of North Carolina wrote that “Schott’s poems give her readers what feels like the first welcome taste of strong coffee in the morning, waking us up to that amazing light pouring through the window.”
Other Book Events Today:
Simple Handmade Books (Gregory Heights Library, @6:30pm): 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.
Night of a Thousand Stars: A Portrait of Life in Iraq (Wilsonville Public Library, @6:30pm): Photojournalist Joel Preston Smith traveled in central and northern Iraq for four months in 2003, living with Iraqis and Kurds and patrolling with U.S. soldiers. This slide show and conversation offer a comprehensive portrait of Iraqi society before and after the U.S. invasion in 2003, as seen from the perspectives of both Iraqis and U.S. soldiers. Smith will lead audiences in a conversation about the ethics of war, media bias, and American perceptions of Iraqis and Middle Easterners.
Writing That Makes a Difference (Barnes & Noble-Vancouver, @7:00pm): Barnes & Noble Vancouver is honored to host Francis Payne Adler, editor of Fire & Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing for our 2nd Wednesdays Poetry Group. This is beautiful, heartfelt writing that makes a difference, featuring writers like William Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, Adrienne Rich, Li-Young Lee and Rafael Campo. Adler will be reading from Fire & Ink, which will be followed by an open mic.
Heather Brewer (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): The latest volume in Heather Brewer’s Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series, hailed by Publishers Weekly as “something fresh in the vampire lit genre,” Eleventh Grade Burns (Dutton) combines doomed love, failing friendships, and psycho-sadistic vampires in a tale that’s perfect for anyone tired of hearing about Edward and Bella.
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 Oregon Poets.
