Today’s Featured Book Event:

Dirty Queer Open Mic (In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources, @6:30pm, $1-$5 Suggested Donation): Dirty Queer is an X rated open mic: a place to celebrate sexuality and strut your creative stuff! Hosted by renegade writer and poet Sossity Chiricuzio, Dirty Queer is proven itself to be a thought provoking evening of excitement, laughter and full body shivers. We’re looking for queer erotic entertainers of all sorts: dancers, jugglers, singers, musicians, comics, poets, storytellers, magicians, gender performers … if you can do it in 5-10 minutes or less (w/ minimal props/equip), this open mic’s for you! It’s highly recommended to bring your own folding chairs if you can, as we average 85 people/month. Everyone who attends has a chance to win door prizes from local businesses! Caveats: 18+, consent is key, no hate speech.

Other Book Events Today:

Lloyd Haberly Exhibition Opening (Central Library, Collins Gallery, @10:00am): The work of Loyd Haberly as a poet, artist — he created the many brightly colored woodcuts that adorn his books — printer and binder, caught the attention of Portland book collector Brian Booth. Over the years, Booth has generously been donating his Haberly collection to the John Wilson Special Collections at Multnomah County Library. This exhibition, the first on Haberly in more than a decade, features all of these items along with materials borrowed from other institutions and private collections.

HomeWord Bound 2010 (Tualatin Country Club, @6:00pm, $65): CPAH presents their twelfth annual “HomeWord Bound.” Featured Authors are: Matt Love, Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart Holbrook Award 2009 recipient and author of Gimme Refuge: A Teacher’s Memoir of Restoration, and Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology; and Willy Vlautin, internationally-acclaimed, award-winning author, Lean on Pete, and The Motel Life, who is also lead singer-songwriter for the band Richmond Fontaine. In addition to our featured authors, several guest authors will be in attendance, including: Debra Gwartney, April Henry, Bart King, Joe Kurmaskie, Jeff Mapes, Loyce Martinazzi, R. Gregory Nokes, Naseem Rakha, David Michael Slater, and Tim Sproul. Master of Ceremonies will be the founding General Manager of The Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Dan Murphy.

In Search of Lili’uokalani (Portland State, Smith Center, Rm 236, @7:00pm): Forced from her throne by American business interests in 1893, Queen Liliuokalani saw the Hawaiian Kingdom turned briefly into a “republic” and then-the real goal of the men who overthrew her- annexed to the United States. Acclaimed journalist Elinor Langer will talk about the research for her upcoming book on the last Kawaiian Queen, and how she used her strength and itelligence in guiding Hawaii through the then-uncharted stages of American overseas imperialism that has left Liliuokalani as beloved and honored by her people today as she was in her lifetime.

Karl Marlantes (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Written over the course of 30 years by a highly decorated Marine veteran, Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn (Atlantic Monthly) is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life the Vietnam War — both its horrors and its thrills.

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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 Dirty Queer.

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