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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Penelope Scambly Schott and Henry Hughes (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Two of Oregon’s most respected poets, Penelope Scambly Schott and Henry Hughes, will be with us tonight to read from new books. Henry Hughes will present his new collection, Moist Meridian (Mammoth Books). It’s a daring mix of savagery and civilization, eros and wit that show us the growing range and depth of this accomplished writer. Henry teaches at Western Oregon University. His first collection, Men Holding Eggs, received the 2004 Oregon Book Award. 
Penelope Scambly Schott, also a winner of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, will be reading from her new book Six Lips (Mayapple). In this collection, the speaker instructs her lover, thinks about what animal she might become in her next life, discusses having one tail, two vaginas, three ears, and so forth, all the time chronicling her mother’s decline. “Nimble and tender, sensuous and biting, deliciously daring, and always grounded in felt experience….Six Lips is one of the strongest, most inventive books I’ve read in years.” –Ingrid Wendt
Other Book Events Today:
And&Review Release Party (Tiga Bar, @7:00pm): Mia Nolting and Rachel Peddersen present and&review, an arts publication based in Portland, Oregon that shares work from local and international artists and writers. A compilation of work that loosely adheres to a chosen theme for each issue, showing both contemporary trends in art-making as well as work from the past.
The Naughty List (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In Suzanne Young’s new young adult novel, The Naughty List (Razorbill), Tessa Crimson is the sweet and spunky leader of the SOS (Society of Smitten Kittens), a cheer squad-turned-spy society dedicated to bringing dastardly boyfriends to justice, one cheater at a time. When Tessa’s own boyfriend shows up on the List, she turns her sleuthing skills on him. Is Aiden just as naughty as all the rest, or will Tessa’s sneaky ways end in catastrophe?
Kim Stafford Musical Performance & Reading (Annie Blooms Books, @7:30pm): Oregon essayist, poet, and singer-songwriter Kim Stafford will be performing songs from his new CD, Pilgrim at Home: Vagabond Songs. These songs 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. Kim is accompanied on the album by Jan DeWeese and Harriet Wingard.
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 Henry Hughes Poetry and Mayapple Press.
