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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Opening Reception: John Adams Unbound (Central Library, @1:00pm): Besides being our nation’s second president, John Adams was known as an independent thinker and a brilliant mind. This traveling exhibit provides the remarkable opportunity to explore the book collection that fed his intellect. Adam’s amassed one of the greatest private libraries in young America. The opening reception will feature early American music. Click here for further information.
Other Book Events Today:
Travis Nichols (Ampersand, @7:00pm): Travis Nichols will read from his debut novel Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder. Titled after the US Air Force song, this engaging debut explores the legacy of the Greatest Generation from the perspective of Generation Y, the fallout of war through the eyes of a pacifist, and the enduring human desire for love, adventure, truth, and understanding.
Portland Poetry Slam w/ Rocky Bernstein (Backspace, @7:30pm, $5 suggested donation): PPS is back with an open slam for 50 bucks and the assorted glory that comes with it, an open mic and a feature with Rocky Bernstein from Seattle. If you showed up to the Deathmatch, you don’t need to be told that Rocky is one of the most insightful, original, and just plain badass women rocking the stage in poetry right now.
Spare Room presents Deborah Poe & Meredith Blankinship (Concordia Coffee House, @7:30pm, $5 suggested donation): Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats) and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), and is fiction editor of the online journal Drunken Boat. Meredith Blankinship is a recent transplant to Portland from the east coast and is the author of two self-published chapbooks: an origami noose and White Subaru Night. She is currently working on a project about ghost bikes around Portland.
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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 Multnomah County Library.
