Today’s Featured Book Event:
Historic Photos of Oregon (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Historian William C. Stack will join us to present his new book, Historic Photos of Oregon (Turner Publishing). This book offers a collection of nearly 200 images that present a compelling look at the history of our intriguing and picturesque state. Photographers represented in the collection include Edward S. Curtis and Dorothea Lange. The author’s captions and commentary combine with the photos to make an entertaining visual record of life in the Beaver State.
Other Book Events Today:
Hip Haikus and Raucous Rhymes (Belmont Library, @1:30pm): Have you ever written a collective poem? Composed a lyrical ode to your favorite food? Saluted that certain-somebody with a silly sonnet? In the spirit of Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, and Hip Hop artists such as Blackalicious, find rhythm in the everyday. In this workshop we will explore a range of poetry styles through hands-on writing exercises.
Open Mic Poetry featuring Jim Martin (Paper Tiger Coffee House-Vancouver, @7:00pm): The third installment of Paper Tiger’s open mic reading series features Jim Martin. Jim Martin is a retired biologist and teacher, who spends his time with family, volunteering at animal shelters, advising and board work in science inquiry education, doing tap and ballet, writing and reading poetry at open mikes, and doing and exhibiting photography. Much of his poetry is influenced by his experiences in biology and teaching.
History of the Black Panther Party in Oregon (Architectural Heritage Center, @7:00pm): The Northwest History Network presents: “‘We’re going to defend ourselves’: The Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party & Local Media Response.” A presentation by Jules Boykoff & Martha Gies, with special guests Kent Ford & Percy Hampton, original members of the Portland chapter, Black Panther Party. Light refreshments provided. Martha Gies is the author of Up All Night (2004), and many short stories, essays and articles. Jules Boykoff is the associate professor of political science at Pacific University. The Northwest History Network is a non- profit consortium of regional history, archives, library, and other professionals.
Jimmy McDonough (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen (Viking), the first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music, bestselling biographer Jimmy McDonough tells the story of the small-town girl whose meteoric rise led to a decades-long career full of tragedy and triumph.
James Greer and Mark Gluth (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): James Greer’s The Failure (Akashic Books) is a picaresque novel, set in Los Angeles, about two guys who conceive and badly execute a plan to rob a Korean check-cashing store in order to finance the prototype for an impossibly ridiculous Internet application. Mark Gluth’s The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis (Akashic Books) is a groundbreaking debut that creates a world in which a woman’s life is refracted through dreamlike logic.
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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