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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Matthew Dickman (University of Portland, Buckley Center @7:30pm): Dickman, a Portland native, earned his M.F.A. at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin. His first collection, All American Poem, published in 2008, received the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award and the prestigious Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Dickman has also been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship. He has been featured in a wide range of publications, including Poets and Writers, The New Yorker and Tin House.
Other Book Events Today:
Altered Books Show (Marylhurst University, Streff Gallery, @5:00pm): Streff Gallery in Shoen Library is reserved for the month of February 2010 for the Altered Books Show. What is an “altered book”? It is any book, old or new, that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art. They can be: rebound, painted, cut, burned, folded, added to, collaged in, gold-leafed, rubber-stamped, drilled, or otherwise adorned … and yes! It is legal! Pick up a book now and start making art…if worse comes to worst, read it.
Author Talk: Molly Gloss (West Linn Library, @6:30pm): Molly Gloss, author of this year’s West Linn Reads selection The Hearts of Horses, will speak at the library.
CAFFEINATED ART No. 81 — “Love Outlives Us” (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Based on texts by A. Molotkov, Bruce Greene, Shawn Austin, David Cooke and Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk, “Love Outlives Us” is a symbolic exploration of the value and meaning of a human life, the character-defining nature of human interaction, and each individual’s responsibility for the world in which they conspire to exist. The tone of this performance is balanced around a stark contrast between A. Molotkov’s mysterious and laconic verses and Bruce Greene’s real life stories, in this case his experiences as a teacher in the years following the war in Vietnam. Shawn Austin, David Cooke and Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk contribute their own unique visions to make up a whole that has a sense of unity, despite its many edges. Ragon Linde’s musical contribution and several sung compositions by A. Molotkov expand the palette. Backed up by music, words acquire a greater levity, contributing to the listener’s ability to be entranced and whisked away on an hour-long tour of self-discovery through meaning and metaphor. Several audience participation numbers allow the listeners to become part of the performance in a more tangible way than possible in a passive listening mode. “Love Outlives Us” seeks to engage the audience on all levels, to ask questions that will linger in one’s mind long after the performers have left the stage.
Wells Tower (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Picador), Wells Tower’s debut collection of stories, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves in an America that is touched by the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, and wayward sons. Booklist calls Tower “a serious talent….[His] voice is honest and strange, humorous and insightful.”
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series Features: Paul Ramirez Jonas (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): Paul Ramirez Jonas 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 LA Times.
