Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Oolicon: Open House (Portland State, Smith Memorial Student Union, @10:00am, $10): Write to Publish is a two-day conference that aims to demystify the publishing process for writers of all levels of experience. Day two is “Open House Day,” featuring vendor booths and professional resources such as agents, editors, regional publishers, literary magazines, and designers, along with the author appearances and signings. Award-winning authors Chuck Palahniuk and Ursula K. Le Guin will be sharing their publishing experiences, and several other noteworthy Portland-area writers will also be appearing, including Shannon Wheeler, Deborah Hopkinson, Virginia Euwer Wolff, and Lilith Saintcrow.
Other Book Events Today:
Words Alive! VoiceCatcher Fundraiser (Tabor Space, @1:00pm, $45): Portland Writers presents a “Words Alive! Jumping from Page to Stage like a Pro” with Carolyn A. Martin, Ph.D. Limited to ten participants–both men and women. Bring approximately five minutes worth of your writing to read and practice. Carolyn A. Martin, Ph.D., is a world-class educator, author, and keynote speaker who has delighted hundreds of thousands of business professionals over the past 24 years. Known for her humor, practicality, and passion, she now applies the lessons she’s learned as a speaking professional to helping others perform their creative work. Happily retired, Carolyn currently serves as president of the board of directors of VoiceCatcher, an organization supporting women’s diverse voices in the Portland/Vancouver area. Register through email at: register[at]pdxwriters.com
Poets Andrew Michael Roberts and Carol Guess (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @4:00pm): A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press) is as personal and provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself.
William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Floating World Comics, @6:00pm): This graphic novel (To Teach: The Journey, In Comics) brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher. These illustrated stories begin with Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten and follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” Readers meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch as students grow across a year and a lifetime. Dave’s Killer Bread and Ninkasi will be providing food and beverages!
Bryan Charles & Mike McGonigal (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In two volumes of Continuum’s acclaimed 33 1/3 series, Bryan Charles’s Wowee Zowee offers a compelling examination of the classic Pavement album, including interviews with all band members; and Mike McGonigal’s Loveless examines My Bloody Valentine’s epoch-making, late-’80s record that turned out to be their last album.
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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 Ooligan Press.
