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Archives for Poetry
Event Preview: Phil’s Fire Fund-The Great Northwest Bookstore Demolition Benefit
As you’ll no doubt recall, The Great Northwest Bookstore and it’s wonderful collection of rare and out of print books, went up in flames this past May. In an effort to help owner Phil Wikelund raise money to finish the demolition of the First Presbyterian Church that housed the store, McMenamin’s will host a benefit [...]
Event Recap: Poetry Reading at St. John’s Booksellers
Big Tent Poetry, an online poetry community, has a Portland connection. Deb Scott, a local Portland poet who is also one of three co-founders of Big Tent Poetry, led a poetry reading Saturday at the St. Johns Booksellers… Read more about it here. Image credit Luciole Press.
Event Recap: Poetry Workshop with Sage Cohen in the Lan Su Chinese Garden
Recently I attended a poetry workshop, led by local Portland poet Sage Cohen. It was held in the Lan Su Chinese Garden, located in downtown Portland. The garden once was the site of the Northwest Natural parking lot, and now will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this September. The price of an admission ticket to [...]
Event Recap: Portland Bridge and Poetry Walk with Wortman and Cohen
It would be impossible to ask for nicer weather than we had Saturday, for the first bridge walk of the 2010 season, led by Sharon Wood Wortman, author of The Portland Bridge Book, and leader of waterfront bridge walks for Portland Parks & Outdoor Recreation since 1991. Assembling on the steps of the Northwest Natural [...]
Sage Cohen's Tip A Day: Imitation Makes the Art Grow Fonder
Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day. Imitation makes the art grow fonder Spend some time reading the work of a poet you admire. (Read at least 10 poems so you can get a representative feel [...]
Congratulations to Paulann Petersen, Oregon's Newest Poet Laureate!
RLP would like to send out a heartfelt congratulations to Oregon’s newest Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen! Paulann is an incredible ambassador for Oregon’s poetry community, and the Oregon literary community in general, and will undoubtedly serve the state well in this new capacity. For more on Petersen and what she plans to do as laureate, [...]
Sage Cohen's Tip A Day: Take a Bath
Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day. Take a bath Get hot. Do nothing. Think nothing. Slosh around great heaps of empty bubbles. Let the weight of the world slough off of you. That’s it. That’s [...]
Sage Cohen's Tip A Day: Show, Don't Tell
Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day. Show, don’t tell Choose an object that has meaning to you and write a poem about it. Don’t explain what you think or feel about the object; describe it [...]
Sage Cohen's Tip A Day: Obsess. Obsess. Obsess. (Repeat)
Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day. Obsess. Obsess. Obsess. (Repeat) Write a poem describing something (or experience or person) you want, something you take great pleasure in or something that is quite distasteful to you. [...]
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