Today 6-26: Sam Lohmann & Kirsten Rian at The Hollywood Farmers Market

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Locally Grown Poetry w/ Kirsten Rian and Sam Lohmann (Hollywood Farmers Market, 44th & Hancock, @10:30am): On the last Saturdays of June, July and August, Portland poets will read while the market’s band-of-the-day takes breaks. Listen to good words while you choose your sweet carrots, free-range eggs, luscious berries – and lettuce so beautiful it could be a bouquet. Sam Lohmann edits the semiannual poetry zine Peaches and Bats, and is the author of several chapbooks and pamphlets, most recently Onlooking and Fluted Octaves (for nothing). Kirsten Rian’s anthology of Sierra Leonean poetry, Kalashnikov in the Sun, came out this year, following a collection of her own poetry and essays, Fugue (2009). She’s the poetry editor at writersdojo.org and was co-editor of the collection Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass.

Other Book Events Today:

Voices in Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am): Bring along a cup of coffee and share your own poetry or listen to others read their favorites. The group meets on the fourth Saturday morning of each month in the library’s upstairs meeting room.

Alex Robinson Signing (Cosmic Monkey Comics, @12:00pm): Alex Robinson, Harvey Award winning creator of Box Office Poison, Too Cool to Be Forgotten, and more will sign copies of his work.

Taki Soma and Michael Avon Oeming (Things From Another World-Sandy Blvd, @1:00pm): Comic book creators Taki Soma and Michael Avon Oeming recently collaborated on Rapture, a limited series from Dark Horse Comics, called “A stylistic delight” by Broken Frontier and “. . . a compelling tale about the boundaries of humanity” by MTV.  In addition to signing their works, Oeming will be offering sketches for sale, with all proceeds benefiting the Hero Initiative, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping comic book creators, writers and artists in need.

Dana Haynes (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @4:00pm): Crashers (Minotaur) is Dana Haynes’s brilliantly conceived, high-energy thriller, combining cutting-edge, CSI-style investigation with a straight-out-of-24 ticking-clock chase.

Free Outdoor Film Screening: Women’s Film Preservation Fund (Ampersand, @9:00pm): The Women’s Film Preservation Fund is the only program in the world that works to preserve the cultural legacy of women in the film industry. This one-night only presentation includes That Man of Mine, a charming musical starring a young Ruby Dee and musicians from the all-woman jazz band, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Made by a small independent black company for black audiences, it was one of the first films to successfully counter its era’s negative stereotypes of African-Americans. And from late 1930s Groton, Massachusetts is The Movie Queen, a rare example of the “see yourself in pictures” genre. For this fun screening under the stars, Cinema Project has teamed up with northeast Portland photo and ephemera gallery Ampersand.

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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 Kirsten Rian.