Please join us Tuesday, March 16 at The Writers’ Dojo for Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Benefit Reading, featuring six outstanding Portland writers. This is the third in a special series of interviews with each of these readers. In this case, because we interviewed Margaret so recently, we’re republishing the interview here. Look for more Read to Rebuild interviews in the next few days.
Margaret Malone’s writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Swink, The Wordstock Ten Anthology, as well as on latimes.com, Rhapsoidia, Tablet, Too Much Coffee Man and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Humboldt State University with a B.A. in Philosophy and now lives with her husband, film-maker Brian Padian, in Portland, Oregon. A volunteer facilitator with Write Around Portland and a co-host of the impossible-to-describe SHARE, Margaret can be found most Thursday nights at the northeast corner of the Dangerous Writers table in Tom Spanbauer’s basement.
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Please join us Tuesday, March 16 at The Writers’ Dojo for Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Reading Benefit, featuring six outstanding Portland writers. This is the second in a special series of interviews with each of these readers. Look for more Read to Rebuild interviews in the next few days.
Ben Parzybok is a novelist and web developer living with his family in Portland, OR. His first book, Couch, was released by Small Beer Press in late 2008. He also runs the startup Walker Tracker. A few of Ben’s other projects can be seen on the ideacog front page.
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Please join us Tuesday, March 16 at The Writers’ Dojo for Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Reading Benefit, featuring six outstanding Portland writers. This is the first in a special series of interviews with each of these readers. Look for more Read to Rebuild interviews in the next few days.
Laura Moulton earned an MFA from Eastern Washington University. She has taught writing workshops in 
prisons, universities and a shelter for homeless teens. Her zines and art projects have featured postal workers, immigrants and artists. Her public art project, Object Permanence, was commissioned by Portland State University in 2009, and is installed permanently in the Smith Student Union Building.
Laura currently teaches writing residencies at the Portland Art Museum for Writers in the Schools. Her work has been featured in Hip Mama, Nervy Girl, Portland Tribune, and Brain, Child. She is at work on a novel set in Provo, Utah in the early 90s.
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If you find yourself out and about tonight (3-4) for First Thursday you will have plenty of options, one of which is the grand opening of Galerie Salome. I realize this isn’t an art blog, but we have multi-talented authors in our vicinity whose creative limits seemingly know no bounds. So if you happen to be near NW 6th & Everett tonight, stop into Galerie Salome, as their first exhibit entitled “Only Dust and Rain” will feature 28 framed b/w portraits by Jaret Ferratusco of Corpse On Pumpkin Photography.
Of course some of you who have read this blog for a while might also recognize Jaret as the founder of Patient, Folded Hands Publishing and author of I Grew Up In Amaltherey Hill. So in addition to showing off his photography, Jaret will also do a 15-minute reading from Amaltherey Hill. Following this will be a live performance from Joey Casio off the esteemed NW punk rock label K Records out of Olympia.
Be there or be square!
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Sage Cohen, author of Writing the Life Poetic, will lead a two-hour writing workshop tomorrow, Tuesday March 2, at 3 PM PST on The Inkwell.
The Inkwell offers writers help and advice in taking their work from page to publication. You’re invited to listen with pen and paper, and to take part in writing exercises with Sage, Inkwell host Nyla Alisia, and other participants.
The Inkwell is Internet radio, so make sure you’ve got your computer handy. You can find details on how to listen and join in at The Inkwell’s website.
Over 30 organizations offering “support and opportunities for writers,” will be present this Sunday (2-28) at the Writers Resource Fair held downtown at the Central Library. The fair is a wonderful opportunity to network with literary minded individuals, and celebrate the regions “lively literary scene.”
The incredible lineup of particpating organizations includes:
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Jennifer Richter is a poet and author of a prize-winning poetry collection appearing shortly from Southern Illinois University Press. Keith Scribner is a novelist and director of Oregon State University’s MFA program. Dao Strom is a novelist and singer-songwriter with both books and albums to her name. Together, they’ll respond to the prompt, “Patient,” at tonight’s Loggernaut reading at Urban Grind East. Catch them there, starting at 7:30. But catch them here first, with us…
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Arthur Bradford is the author of the story collection Dogwalkers, and creator and director of 
How’s Your News?, a documentary and traveling news show. Nathaniel Boggess is a storyteller and performer currently refining a one-man show about his terrifying dating experiences.
This Thursday, 2/25, they’ll both be part of the star-studded cast of Entertainment for People, the live performance event brought to you by the fine folks of Back Fence PDX. You can grab tickets here, and you’ll get not only fine storytelling, but also a free saintly cupcake and some awesome libations. What’s not to love?
We caught up with Nathaniel and Arthur on their way to the show…
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Heidi Durrow’s Bellwether-prize-winning debut novel, The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, is the story of Rachel, a girl who loses her Danish mother and African-American father in a tragic accident. Durrow, a native Portlander, will be in town for two readings in the next few days. You can catch her this Friday 2/19 at Powell’s on Burnside (7:30 pm), and next Tuesday 2/23 at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (7 pm).
We caught up with Durrow to learn more about the book before she hits a microphone near you.
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Journalist Seymour Hersh has investigated many of the important political and military issues of the last forty-plus years. This week he will be in Eugene and Portland discussing the efficacy of torture.
The son of immigrant parents from Lithuania and Poland, Hersh began his journalism career in 1959 as a police reporter in Chicago. He later worked in South Dakota, then Washington, DC. There he met and befriended the famous investigative journalist I.F. Stone.
Hersh gained worldwide recognition – and a Pulitzer Prize – in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, and its ensuing cover-up. In 1972, Hersh was hired as a reporter for the Washington Bureau of The New York Times, where he worked off and on during the 1970s.
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Grab an eraser and find your calendar. Flip to this Friday, February 19. Erase whatever’s written down for your evening. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Now write this in: Brad Rosen Benefit Reading, at the Blue Monk, 7 – 11 pm.
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Looking for a Valentine’s Day treat, or a way to ring in the Chinese New Year? The Writers’ Dojo invites you to join them for free CH Wine & Moonstruck Chocolate tomorrow, Saturday February 13. 6-10 pm
While you’re there you can check out their new (reduced) membership rates, and see what events they have coming up.
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