Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Jay Lake (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Rejoin the adventure in bestselling author Jay Lake’s Clockwork Earth with Pinion (Tor), “a fine tale of humans in search of liberation from the clockwork and customs that ensnare them and us as well” (Sci-Fi Weekly).
Other Book Events Today:
Perspectives on Positive Aging: Pilgrim at Home (Central Library, @12:00pm): Part of the pleasure of daily life can be paying attention to the way little events in the outer world can stimulate discoveries in the inner life. Kim Stafford will talk about this experience as a “pilgrim at home,” a seeker after beauties, puzzles, stories, and other encounters savored by daily writing practice. Recommended reading: The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft by Kim Stafford. Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis and Clark College, and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose.
The Natural Man (Reading Frenzy, @6:00pm): Reading Frenzy is pleased to present the first Portland solo show by artist Shelley Turley. The Natural Man features two dozen pieces, all works on paper, that employ a process of “paper doll cut-out” college, water color, gouache and acyclic. In this body of work Ms. Turley explores themes of modern American spirituality, and the search for tradition, ritual and meaning in everyday life. The exhibit will run for the month of April.
First Thursday: Quilts from Alabama Chanin (Powells City of Books, @6:30pm): Alabama Chanin is a lifestyle company that focuses on slow design and sustainability. They craft handmade, limited-edition products using a combination of new, organic, and recycled materials. Founder and creative director Natalie Chanin will join us in person on Tuesday the 13th to discuss her latest book, Alabama Studio Style.
WITS PDX Reading: Benson High (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Broadway Books is pleased to announce a special event featuring Benson High School students who will be here to read from their own writing. These students are part of Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools Program. This program pairs professional writers with high school students in ongoing collaboration for students to hone their writing skills. The writer that has been working with these students is poet Carson Cistulli, who will be in attendance and who will also read from his own work. This is the first time most of these students have ever read their work in public. It’s an exciting thing to witness. We hope you can join us!
Microcosm Publishing’s Post Punk Extravaganza (Artistery, @7:00pm, $5 or $12 w/dinner): Joshua Ploeg, a vegan chef (of Behead the Prophet and Lords of Lightspeed) will be cooking a 7 course vegan dinner, followed by a talk about making food, relating to his book “In Search of Lost Taste“. Following this will be Mia Partlow and Michael Hoerger talking about food and espionage, and discussing their new book “Edible Secrets“. Finally, Joe Biel will be showing his latest documentary, about Plan-It-X Records, entitled “If It Ain’t Cheap, It Ain’t Punk“.
Nick Lantz (Lewis & Clark College, Smith Hall, @7:00pm): Winner of the 2008 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for Poetry, Nick Lantz’s poems introduce a startling new voice. Taking its title from a dodging statement from former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, We Don’t Know We Don’t Know assesses what it means to claim new knowledge within a culture that professes to know everything already. Nick Lantz is the author of a second collection, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, which won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Melissa Febos (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. With poetic, nuanced prose, Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne) charts how Febos’s unchecked risk-taking eventually gave way to a course of self-destruction.
Take Five Poetry Troupe (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Take Five is no ordinary poetry troupe. The women involved all have experience in performance, from stand-up comedy to singing and dancing to performance poetry. They invest energy and fun into their readings, which range from the ridiculous to the serious.
——————————-
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 IndieBound.
