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David Biespiel Elected to Board of National Book Critics Circle

Local literary powerhouse and founder of The Attic has some exciting news to share. That’s right one of our Portland, OR literary treasures gets to help pick the NBCC Award winners for a three year term. Exciting news for one of our own. Thanks to the Attic for passing this press release along.  The National [...]

David Biespiel and Oregon Ballet Theatre Present "Incorporamento"

This Sunday, Jan 31, is your last day to catch “Incorporamento” at The Armory.  David Biespiel, founder of The Attic, and Oregon Ballet Theatre have joined forces to present a marriage of poetry and dance. Principal dancer Gavin Larsen performs to a reading of four of Biespiel’s poems. The show’s at 10:15 pm, tickets are [...]

Biespiel's "The Book of Men and Women" Among Poetry Foundation's "Top Poetry of the Year"

David Biespiel’s latest poetry collection, The Book of Men and Women (UW Press), was selected by the Poetry Foundation for their Top Poetry of the Year. In the remarks on the announcement, Gina Rosemellia, Editorial Assistant for Poetry Magazine, had this to say, “In his book about regret, longing, and loss, Biespiel explores the intricacies [...]

Tonight 12-3: 14th Annual Cheap Art & Craft Show at Reading Frenzy

Today’s Featured Book Event: 14th Annual Cheap Art & Craft Show (Reading Frenzy, @6:00pm): Always a treat, our annual Cheap Art & Craft Show features dozens of artists offering affordable art priced at $50 and under! This year’s confirmed artists include: Aijung Kim; Amelia Harnas; APAK Studio; Art Bureau; Berkley Illustration; Camp Smartypants; Carole Zoom; [...]

Tonight 11-21: Arty Words Vol. III Featuring Curtis White with Special Guest David Biespiel at Disjecta

Today’s Featured Book Event: Arty Words Vol. III Featuring Curtis White with Special Guest David Biespiel (Disjecta, @7:00pm, $8): Disjecta and Tin House get all eco-politico for the next installment of Arty Words, the literary/art/music sensation too rambunctious to be cage free. Vol. III features Curtis White marauding through sustainability’s seamy underbelly. White’s intelligence, colored [...]

Today 10-18: David Biespiel at Powell's Books on Hawthorne

Today’s Featured Book Event: David Biespiel (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @4:00pm): Biespiel’s fifth poetry collection The Book of Men and Women (University of Washington), addresses our time and human condition in ways both domestic and global.  A book party at The Saphire Hotel follows the reading. Other Book Events Today: Celebrate Oregon Through Poetry with [...]

Reader Review: David Biespiel's "The Book of Men and Women"

This review is provided courtesy of contributor Angela Allen.  Read more of Ms. Allen’s work on her beautiful website. You’ll have to dig deeply among David Biespiel’s new poems – dictionary, Bible and encyclopedia on hand – to find reason to be hopeful about men and women. Not that art has to be redemptive, but [...]

Reading Local Q & A: David Biespiel

I received a very kind, unprompted, but much appreciated note in my inbox a couple weeks ago.  A note which just so happened to be from David Biespiel, one of Portland’s most accomplished and celebrated poets.  And so began the back and forth which eventually led to the interview below.  Biespiel’s new collection of poetry [...]

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