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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Rob Schlegel (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Poet Rob Schlegel is an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. His collection of poetry, The Lesser Fields, is the winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and he’ll be with us tonight to read from it. Published in 2009 by the University Press of Colorado, this lovely book is filled with the stark beauty of the natural world. Mr. Schlegel’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, VOLT, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland.
Other Book Events Today:
Creative Memoir Writing – Written Reflections of a Life (Sellwood-Moreland Library, @6:30pm): A creative writing workshop that focuses on the genre of memoir and the different forms it can take. How does memoir adapt to the story being told? How does the utilization of diction, tone and stylistics aid to the story? There will be a large emphasis on our own writing, in class writing and the option to share. Various short text handouts will be given to support the focus of the course. Tae M. Gordon is the advisor for the Writers Club at Clackamas Community College and also their Resident Graduate Assistant. Register here.
Suzanne Jauchias (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): You Know Your Way Home, Suzanne Jauchias’ memoir, chronicles the journey of a brilliantly gifted little girl plagued by an abusive family life. The book follows Suzanne’s struggles in a world unsympathetic to her natural psychic abilities. She careens through multiple marriages while attempting to maintain an acceptable social image. The author’s unflinching willingness to expose the most personal details of her life reveals her courage and conviction that true healing occurs when authentic stories are shared and passed on. In this, readers have found hope, courage and inspiration.
Brando Skyhorse (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Heralding a young, new literary talent, Brando Skyhorse’s first novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park (Free Press), gives voice to the Mexican-American community in Echo Park, California.
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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 University Press of Colorado.
