Reading Local: Portland

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 by righteous indignation, is a slippery and protean thing. He’s tackled Liberalism and contemporary Art Culture and in his newest book, The Barbaric Heart, he examines the hidden ills of the environmental movement.

David Biespiel is widely recognized as one of the leading poets of his generation, a liberal commentator on national politics, & also one of the nation’s experts in teaching writing. In 1999, he founded the Attic Writers’ Workshop as a haven for writers in Portland’s historic Hawthorne district. Among his publications are The Book of Men and Women, Wild Civility, Pilgrims & Beggars, & Shattering Air.  You can read Reading Local’s interview with David Biespiel here.

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