18th March 2010 by
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by [...]
30th November 2009 by
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This review has been provided courtesy of Lynn Alexander, editor of Full Of Crow, Fashion For Collapse, Blink|Ink Online, and producer of assorted chapbooks, zines, and ebooks through her small press collective. Ghost Town, USA refers to the poet’s town of Vancouver, Washington, a town in the shadow of the infamous Portland. The name comes [...]
22nd July 2009 by
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Events
Today’s Featured Book Event: Verse In Person presents Floyd Skloot and Willa Schneberg (Northwest Library, @7:00pm): Two much acclaimed, award-winning poets, Floyd Skloot and Willa Schneberg, read their work. Floyd Skloot has published 15 books, most recently “The Snow’s Music” (LSU Press, 2008), his sixth collection of new poems, and the memoir ‘The Wink of [...]
22nd April 2009 by
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Authors,
Portland
Check out Mojgani’s book of “swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three-legged frog on the lawn, and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen,” Over The Anvil We Stretch (Write Bloody Publishing). Read more of his poetry here, and learn more [...]
16th April 2009 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: David Hewson Reading (Murder By The Book, @7:30pm): In partnership with Friends of Mystery, DAVID HEWSON author of the Nic Costa series set in Italy will be here for a signing. (The Friends of Mystery social hour begins at 7:00.) Other Book Event’s Today: John Isles and Kristen Hanlon Poetry Reading [...]
6th April 2009 by
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In honor of April being Poetry Month, and to help get the word out about her new release Writing The Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry (Writers Digest Books, 2009), Sage Cohen is conducting a “blog tour.” Reading Local is lucky to have been chosen as a host! So with no further [...]
27th March 2009 by
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Authors,
Portland
Ben Parzybok, who is currently on tour promoting his debut novel Couch, posted a few pictures from the road on his blog. Seattle’s Secret Garden Books drew inspiration from the books title in their efforts to promote Parzybok’s reading: Zachary Schomburg has a poem from the forthcoming book Scary, No Scary up on the new [...]
25th March 2009 by
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Authors,
Portland
David Abel might be Portland’s busiest poet, a label which probably doesn’t do justice to all Abel contributes to Portland’s creative community. Possibly his largest contribution is the Spare Room Reading Series, which generally meets once a month, and features local poets as well as those gracious enough to travel from outside the area. The [...]
12th March 2009 by
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Books,
Portland
As announced on his blog, The Lovely Arc, Zachary Schomburg’s new chapbook The Pond is now available from Greying Ghost Press. Schomburg was recently interviewed by Kevin Sampsell on the Powell’s blog. I also find it oddly compelling that Schomburg participates in Fantasy Baseball. I think him and Ben Mason, a fellow baseball nut (especially [...]
5th March 2009 by
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Authors
Narrative Magazine the “leading online publisher of first-rank fiction, nonfiction, and poetry,” features four poems from Michael Dickman in their Winter ’09 issue. Dickman won last years Narrative prize for his poem, Returning to Church. Dickman’s first collection, The End of The West (Copper Canyon Press), is now available. Narrative Magazine is a “nonprofit organization… [...]
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