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Frank Meeink (Mississippi Pizza Pub, @9:00pm): Book launch party for Frank Meeink’s Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, published by local press Hawthorne Books. Live music by Nicole Berke, no cover, pizza and beer will be provided!
Bridge and Poetry Walk (NW Second & Everett, @8:30am, $16 adults/$10 children): Sage Cohen will share poems as part of the 2010 bridge walking series, an event led by Sharon Wood Wortman, author of The Portland Bridge Book, and leader of waterfront bridge walks for Portland Parks & Outdoor Recreation since 1991. About a mile long and easy-paced, each walk includes a tour of the Oregon Dept. of Transportation’s Traffic Management Operation Center and the tower and bascule pit of the Morrison Bridge. See eight bridges in all. Registration not required. Begins at 8:30 a.m. at the corner of NW Second & Everett (steps of the Northwest Natural Building). Ends with lunch (extra $) in Chinatown.
Great Northwest Bookstore Benefit Book Sale (3025 SW 1st Ave, @10:00am-6:00pm): Benefit to help Phil Wikelund pay for demolition on the site where Great Northwest Bookstore burned down earlier this month. 1000s of books, 75 cents – $3, $5/bag on Sunday. Donations welcome. Full details at GNWBookSale.com.
Don Nelson signs Remembering Portland (St. John’s Books, @11:00am): Don Nelson will sign copies of this lovingly assembled collection of historic photographs of Portland. Drop by to meet Don, celebrate the opening of the new Farmers’ Market season, and pick up a copy of this perfect Fathers’ Day gift!
Market Day Poetry Series (St. John’s Books, @12:00pm): It’s Farmers’ Market time! With the opening day of the St. Johns Farmers’ Market, we’re kicking off a new season of Market Day Poetry. Your host today is Dan Raphael, series coordinator, with guest readers Mary Slocum and Rick J. Join us at noon each market Saturday through 25 September, to enjoy a wide spectrum of expression from over 40 participating poets!
Kilong Ung (St. John’s Books, @2:00pm): Kilong Ung has gone from a boyhood in hell to living an especially Portland version of the American Dream. His memoir, Golden Leaf, chronicles the incredible journey of an ambassador for peace from the killing fields of Cambodia to the Rotary Club of Portland and the fellowship of the Royal Rosarians–through minefields, rockets, bullets, refugee camps, and Reed College. Join us to meet this inspiring North Portland neighbor.
Writers’ Mixer featuring Diane Cammer (Cover to Cover Books, @5:00pm): Come meet and greet other Northwest writers, network, and have a good time! Diane Cammer will tackle the daunting task of teaching us how to deliver constructive critiques, Clarion-style. In the Clarion method, the writers bring in a page of their work, about 250 words, read the page aloud, and then receive constructive criticism on the spot. We’ll do as many critiques as we have time for in our session. The events are free and do not require a reservation or RSVP. Light refreshments served. June’s mixer will be our last mixer before the summer hiatus. We’ll be back the first Saturday in October with more fabulous guest speakers!
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (Clinton Street Theater, @6:00pm, $8): “I bring not peace, but a sword!” shouts William S. Burroughs in A Man Within. The legendary writer and artist also carried, as director Yony Leyser’s deeply engaging documentary shows, an untold number of shotguns, pistols, knives and other weapons, both real and rhetorical. Through interviews with friends, lovers and colleagues, both famous (Patti Smith, Gus Van Sant, John Waters) and less so (his “gun handler” is here, as well as his “snake dealer”), A Man Within pieces together a poignant, scrupulous portrait of an intensely complicated and brilliant artist. Here was a man who chronicled the lives of addicts, decidedly long before it was “chic” to do so; who wrote the seminal book Queer while disavowing any sense of gay identity; who drunkenly killed his wife with a pistol during a game of William Tell; and whose Naked Lunch provoked the last major case of literary censorship in the United States.
Frances McCue (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): Combining travelogue, memoir, and literary scholarship, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs (University of Washington Press) follows Frances McCue and Mary Randlett in their search for the towns that inspired the poems of Richard Hugo. Their essays and photographs offer a fresh view of Hugo’s Northwest.
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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 Hawthorne Books.
