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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
The Boys from Little Mexico (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In the tradition of Friday Night Lights, Steve Wilson’s The Boys from Little Mexico (Beacon Press) follows the all-Hispanic boys’ soccer team from Woodburn High, who are determined that this will be the season they beat the wealthy suburban schools around them and finally win the Oregon state championship.
Other Book Events Today:
Flash Choir presents “Strangers Together” (Lake Oswego Library, @12:00pm): “Strangers Together” is a setting of 10 poems from William Stafford’s book, Passwords, composed by Sarah Dougher and performed by the Flash Choir. This project engages the work of Stafford–exploring in particular poems dealing with human connection to animals and the divine, as well as human connection with other humans. Most experience poetry sitting, silently reading. The choral rendition of these words in a public space will create an opportunity for communal listening, and perhaps, a new way of hearing and understanding the work of Oregon’s first Poet Laureate.
Book Group (West Slope Community Library, @2:00pm): Please join us for a discussion of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.
Book Group (West Slope Community Library, @6:30pm): Please join us for a discussion of The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
Paul Merchant (Milwaukie Ledding Library, @7:00pm): Paul Merchant is the William Stafford Archivist at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. A native of Wales, he taught for many years at Warwick University before taking up residence in Oregon. His fourth collection of poems, Some Business of Affinity (2006), was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. His third volume of translations from modern Greek, Monochords by Yannis Ritsos, was published in 2007 by Trask House Press.
Nena Baker (Tigard Public Library, @7:00pm): Oregon author and investigative journalist Nena Baker explores the many factors that have given rise to the “chemical body burden” in The Body Toxic. Almost everything we encounter-from soap to soup cans, computers to clothing-contribues to a chemical load unique to each of us.
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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 Powell’s Books.
