Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Poetry Reading featuring John Morrison and Scot Siegel (100th Monkey Studio, @7:00pm): Join us for our two featured readers, some open mic time, and a green surprise or two. Hosted by Steve Williams and Constance Hall.
John Morrison’s book, Heaven of the Moment, won the 2006 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition and was a finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous national literary journals, including the Cimarron Review, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore. He is currently a Writer-in-Residence for Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools program in Portland, Oregon.
Scot Siegel is the author of three volumes of poetry, Some Weather (Plain View Press 2008), the chapbook Untitled Country (Pudding House Publications 2009), and a second chapbook, Skeleton Says, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. In celebration of Oregon’s Sesquicentennial, Poetry Northwest and the Oregon State Library selected Some Weather as one of 150 Outstanding Oregon Poetry Books, one for each year of statehood. Siegel was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009.
Other Book Events Today:
Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): A compelling investigation into one of the most coveted and cherished ideals, Stephen S. Hall’s Wisdom (Knopf) also chronicles the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. This event co-sponsored by the OHSU Brain Institute.
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 credits Lane Literary Guild and Siegel Planning.
