An announcement from David Abel:
In two poetry readings and one panel discussion over a two-week period, noted New York School poet and art critic Bill Berkson will make a rare appearance in the Pacific Northwest, to celebrate several recent publications: Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press); and Ted Berrigan (a collaboration with painter George Schneeman) and Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 (Cuneiform Press).
Spare Room reading series
Sunday, February 21, 7:30 pm
Concordia Coffee House * 2909 NE Alberta
$5.00 suggested donation
www.flim.com/spareroom
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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 posting this information on the site.
New Release:
Pulling Apart, a new collection of poems from John Blackard, is now available for purchase. John will be reading from Pulling Apart on March 3rd at the Oregon Literary Review Readers’ Series at Blackbird Wineshop.
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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 posting this information on the site.
New Release:
Slim Margin (WordTech Communications), a book of poems from Alison Apotheker, is now available for purchase.
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Peaches & Bats is a hand-bound poetry journal produced semiannually by Portland’s own Sam Lohmann. The latest issue includes work by Emily Kendal Frey, Sheila Murphy, Allison Cobb, Robert Kelly, and many others–all for the low, low price of five bucks. You can pick up Peaches & Bats issue 5 from the journal website or from Powell’s.
But what will that five bucks get you? Good question. We took a look at some of what you’ll find in the latest issue.
Click through to read more about the latest issue of Peaches & Bats.
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 23, 2010 through January 29, 2010 are:
Saturday January 23-
Voices In Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am-11:00am): Bring along a cup of coffee and share your own poetry or listen to others read their favorites. The group meets on the fourth Saturday morning of each month in the library’s upstairs meeting room.
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Poetry in Motion, a Literary Arts program, “brings poetry into the everyday lives of commuters by placing artfully designed poem cards on public buses and trains.” This year they are asking for your help in determining which poems will be selected for display.
You can take the quick survey and cast your vote here. Poems will begin to appear on TriMet buses and trains some time in April.
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Today’s interview is with Sid Miller, the founder and executive editor of Burnside Review, which has a new issue due out in April. In addition to his duties with the journal, Sid has two new poetry collections out, one entitled Dot-to-Dot, Oregon (Ooligan Press) and the other Nixon on the Piano (David Robert Brooks). In reading Dot-to-Dot, Oregon I found Miller’s poetry provided an entry point through which I could relate to a genre that has escaped me nearly all of my life. I immediately skipped to the section on Northeast Oregon and began to experience the places I grew up through anothers eyes. And although the language is beautiful enough to gain appreciation from the most seasoned critic, it was this context that allowed the poems to find a home within a novice like myself. I highly recommend you pick up both of these new collections, I promise they will not disappoint.
Sid will be reading from Dot-to-Dot, Oregon tomorrow (1-21) at 7:30pm at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne.
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 16, 2010 through January 22, 2010 are:
Saturday January 16-
Mother Daughter Book Club (Hillsboro Main Library, @10:00am): A book discussion group for girls in grades 3-5 and their mothers or other significant women in their lives to read and discuss great books together. The group meets the third Saturday each month at 10 a.m. at the Main Library. New members are always welcome and no registration is required!
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Untitled Country Review, Scot Siegel’s new poetry journal, is seeking submissions for its May 2010 publication. The journal is published quarterly in February (submit by January 15), May (by April 15), August (by Sept 15), and November (by October 15), and is seeking:
evocative (and provocative) poetry that effectively and eloquently reconciles the two (seemingly at-odds) terms in the journal’s title. In other words, we are interested in poetry that knows no boundaries, and that is at once challenging and accessible. We are interested in poetry that matters…
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Spare Room presents Kyle Schlesinger, Charles Alexander, and Joel Bettridge (Concordia Coffee House, @7:30pm, $5.00 suggested donation):
Kyle Schlesinger is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press, recently relocated from New York to Texas, and coeditor of the journal Mimeo Mimeo. His latest book, What You Will, is due next month from New Lights Press; Charles Olson at Goddard College, which he edited, will be out from Effing Press in April. Kyle’s writings and research related to poetics, visual communication, and artist’s books can be found at www.kyleschesinger.com.
Charles Alexander is founder/director of Chax Press, publisher of innovative poetry and book arts editions. His books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings, Arc of Light / Dark Matter, Near or Random Acts, and Certain Slants. He shares a studio and life with Tucson visual artist Cynthia Miller. Lately he has been lost (or found) somewhere among the poetic waters of Ludovico Ariosto, Walter Ralegh, Marie de France, and David Jones. He’ll surface sometime soon . . . perhaps.
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From what I could find (please contact me if you have an event you would like me to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 9, 2010 through January 15, 2010 are:
Saturday January 9-
William Stafford Celebratory Reading (Tigard Public Library, @2:00pm): Join us for an afternoon of stories about William Stafford and readings of his poems, as well as the works of four local poets. Bring your own favorite Stafford poem to read, your memories of Stafford or ways he influenced you and your work, as well as a poem of your own to read. The featured readers are: Co-hosts Bill Siverly and Michael McDowell, Robert Davies, Melanie Green, Donna Henderson, and David Oates.
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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 of relationships between men and women in settings both real and imaginary.”
You can read our recent interview with Mr. Biespiel here, and Reading Local contributor Angela Allen’s review of The Book of Men and Women here.
An announcement from David Abel:
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