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What: Spare Room presents a poetry reading by Patrick Playter Hartigan and Anne Gorrick
When: Sunday, October 30th at 7:30 PM
Where: Open Space Café at 2815 SE Holgate Blvd., Portland, OR
Price: $5 suggested donation
Info: Patrick Playter Hartigan is married to Endi Bogue Hartigan, with whom he has a child, Jackson Thoreau Hartigan. He works as a trademark paralegal at Stoel Rives LLP. He attended school at the University of Pennsylvania and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He publishes his poetry under Double Movement Press through a Print on Demand service. He has published sixteen books in this manner, including, most recently, First Days Last, Mr. Gray’s Panoplies, and Rodeo Poems, all of which are available for purchase, either through Lulu.com, amazon.com, or several other online distribution services.
Anne Gorrick is the author of I-Formation (Book 1) (Shearman Books, Exeter, UK, 2010) and Kyotologic (Shearman, 2008). Her new book I-Formation (Book 2) is due out in 2012. Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artists’ book called “Swans, the ice,” she said with grants through the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She curates the reading series, Cadmium Text, which focuses on innovative writing in and around the New York’s Hudson Valley. She co-curates, with poet Lynn Behrendt, the electronic poetry journal Peep/Show. Her visual work can be seen here.
Spare Room is a group of people who organize readings and other events that focus on what, for lack of a better term, they will call experimental poetry.
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