Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
CAFFEINATED ART No. 83 – Maryrose Larkin, Jen Coleman and Lindsay Hill (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007), DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009) and The name of this intersection is frost (Shearsman Books, Forthcoming). Maryrose is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press.
Jen Coleman is a Portland poet transplanted from Minnesota by way of Wisconsin, DC and then New York. She’s the author of the chapbook Propinquity, and her work has appeared in many excellent journals including Chain, Ixnay and Tangent. She has co-edited the former literary journal Pom-Pom and co-hosted the In Your Ear reading series in DC.
Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of Bard College. His published books include Avelaval (Oyez, Berkeley), Archaeology (St. Luke’s, Memphis), Kill Series (Arundel Press, Los Angeles) NdjenFerno (Vatic Hum, San Francisco) and Contango (Singing Horse Press, San Diego). Lindsay lives in Portland, OR with his wife, the painter Nita Hill, and their two children, Ian and Helena.
Other Book Events Today:
Flying Friars, Hovering Witches (Lewis & Clark College, Templeton Campus Center, @3:30am): Dr. Carlos M. N. Eire, one of the world’s foremost scholars of religion and society in medieval and early modern Europe, will offer a free public lecture for Lewis & Clark College’s annual Throckmorton lecture in history. The lecture is titled, “Flying Friars, Hovering Witches: On the History of the Impossible in Early Modern Europe.”
Citizens Read Book Group (Gerding Theater at The Armory, @6:00pm): Discuss “The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World” by Steven Johnson at the City Club’s monthly book and discussion group. Free and open to the public. Space is limited; please RSVP to 503.228.7231, ext. 110. More information available at www.pdxcityclub.org.
Bill Berkson (Reed College, Eliot Hall, Room 314, @6:30pm): Born in New York in 1939, Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties. Director of Letters and Science at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1993 to 1998, he taught art history, critical writing, and poetry, and directed the public lectures program there from 1984 to 2008. He studied at Trinity School, The Lawrenceville School, Brown University, Columbia, the New School for Social Research, and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
He is the author of eighteen books and pamphlets of poetry — including, recently, Gloria, a portfolio of poems with etchings by Alex Katz (Arion Press), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The Owl Press), Goods and Services (Blue Press), and most recently, Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press).
Oregon Writers Colony Presents: Bibi Gaston (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): Bibi Gaston reads from her memoir The Loveliest Woman in America. Bibi Gaston has been a practicing landscape architect for twenty years. She divides her time between New York City and the Columbia River Gorge, where, like her grandmother, she is learning to fish and tie her own flies. She has kept a diary since the age of eight.
Rachel Kramer Bussel (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From breastfeeding to swingers to underage sexting, the thinnest condom ever and sex work to the thrill of voyeurism and the story of X-rated Tijuana bibles, Best Sex Writing 2010 (Cleis Press) covers the latest, hottest topics from the world of sex. Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is joined by contributor Kerry Cohen.
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series Features: Kristan Kennedy (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): Kristan Kennedy will lecture about her 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.
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