Today’s Featured Book Event: One Square Inch of Silence (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Emmy Award-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton pens a beautifully written call to arms against the agents of manmade noise in One Square Inch of Silence (Free Press), an eloquent defense of natural quiet that comes packaged with the author’s astounding recordings [...]
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Poetry Northwest To Hold Release Party
The long running poetry only journal, Poetry Northwest, will hold a release party for the launch of their Winter ’08/Spring ’09 issue next Thursday at The Blue Monk. Here is the full release: You like poetry Your friends like beer You don’t need to choose between them. Writers, poetry appreciators, beer swiggers, and literary groupies [...]
Rodney Koeneke Interview
Reading Local was lucky enough to sit down with the Modern American himself, Rodney Koeneke. Rodney is a master with words, it comes through in his poems, and I believe it comes through in this video as well. He invites you in with an eager magnetic energy, allowing you to feel as though you are [...]
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