Join us to ce lebrate the release of our new anthology (title forthcoming!)\, featuring the talented writers from our spring workshops in schools\, assisted livin g facilities\, affordable housing buildings and other agencies. Few Portla nd events include so many diverse voices!

The reading is free\, AD A-accessible and everyone is welcome. Books will be available for purchase .

This reading is funded in part by generous support from: Work fo r Art\, Oregon Cultural Trust\, Regional Arts & Culture Council\, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation and Oregon Arts Commission.

For m ore info\, call 503.796.9224 or visit https://writearound.org/events/.
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\nLocation: The Rosewood Initiativ e is located in the Village Square shopping center at SE 162nd Ave and SE Stark St (next to Su Casa Super Mercado) and is one block from the Max Blu e Line. Ample free parking is available at the Village Square shopping cen ter.

The poems and short stories of Frank Eugene Hall explore connections between the inner landscapes of the human spirit and the outer landscapes of Nature. A desce ndant of Native Americans and Europeans\, he takes a global historical vie w. Frank is a member of Portland Ars Poetica and Poetics Corvallis.

The 12th Inte rnational Welsh Poetry Competition 2018 is seeking talented poets from all over the world. Judge – Sally Spedding. Cash prizes and publication in a future anthology. All details\, rules\, entry etc. on our website: http:// www.welshpoetry.co.uk

Kelley Moreho use is an avid reader and enjoys studying the art of poetry and writing fo r the enjoyment of writing. She has volunteered for the Silverton Poetry A ssociation over the last nineteen years and now recently\, she is involved in digging up her ancestral roots and putting them into narrative form fo r her grandchildren. Entering semi-retirement has enticed Kelley into even more creative endeavors!

Find us in the back room. Featured reade r begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, The Ba rrel & Keg\, feature a wide variety of beverages and the food pod in the b ack has a rotating menu of options for dinner!

As sponsor and Director of the GRSF/ Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest\, for the past several years I have made it a point to contact all State Presidents for whom an email address is avail able through the NFSPS.

Our contest\, based in Winona\, MN\, in co operation with our well-known Great River Shakespeare Festival\, has grown wonderfully across the United States\, as well as internationally\, and w e have received quality sonnet submissions. I am a member of the Minnesota Society\, and would be pleased if you are able to publicize the event amo ng your members.

Submissions are now open for the 2018 Contest\, w ith entries accepted until June 1.

Our mailing address is:
\nMaria W. Faust Sonnet Contest
\nPO Box 1111
\nWinona\, Mn 55987

The Ventura a nd Santa Barbara counties in California are home to many fine poets\, name s not generally known in Oregon. This evening will be a quick tour through several poets of the area featuring two poets from there\, Abigail Brandt and Marc Janssen.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

Amanda Hiland grew up hiking through the forests of the Pacific Northwest. She is very fond of rain\, colored pens\, and chai tea. She teaches Special Education by day and is a major astronomy enthusiast at night. Much of her writing s tems from the complexity of understanding the universe through dual lenses of scientific observation and emotional connection.

Featured read er begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the I ke Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

Elizabeth Pak ravan has an extensive multicultural background. She is currently working at Linn Benton Community College as an Employment Outreach and Business Ad visor\, also as a TV Host in CVEL PUNTO. At age of 13 Pakravan won a natio nal award in poetry. Aside from writing poems\, what she enjoys the most i s reciting them.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic w ill directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of b everages and snack options!

Salem’s own r ed-head\, Ariel\, will be sharing her “Bits of Cyn” collection\; whimsical and sensual erotica that will get you feeling the summer heat. You’ll nev er think about plums\, buttons & coffee the same again … and you’ll blush when you do! Ariel\, a Pacific Northwest poet\, typically writes Plathian free-verse about the Pacific Northwest\, being human\, and politics with i nsightful wit. Her recent publishing credits include “Moments Before Midni ght” & “On The Platform\, Waiting” anthologies. Active in Willamette Valle y\, she often collaborates on poetry/art projects. Get to know her at poet ariel.net.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will di rectly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverag es and snack options!

Doug Stone li ves in Albany\, Oregon. He has been a social worker\, policy analyst\, and consultant on public policy issues. His chapbook\, In the Season of Distr ess and Clarity (Finishing Line Press) came out in 2017. He won the Oregon Poetry Association’s Fall\, 2016 Poet’s Choice Award for his poem Things You Know But Cannot Explain. .His poems have been published in numerous jo urnals and in the anthology\, A Ritual To Read Together: Poems in Conversa tion with William Stafford.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide v ariety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 2 29 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

Tim Pfau is a retired EMT\, Auditor and Union Organizer who now watches grandchildren\, studies symbolism and tells stories in Salem\, Oregon. A former Board Mem ber of the Oregon Poetry Association\, his poems have appeared in journals \, newspapers\, anthologies\, radio and mixed-media shows.

Feature d reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the interse ction of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

Open to all\, all to be open! Come listen to the words of the universe & celebrate the 6 month milestone of Pure Expression!

*Currently looking for sweet souls to sign up for readings (email PureExpression.space@gmail.com)*
\n-Day-of sign up begins at 6:30pm and readings start at 7:00pm.
\n -Coffee and alcoholic libations will be available for purchase to help buz z your groove.
\n-Respectful and open vibes only. While this is an al l ages event\, poets will not be censored and are free to speak their mind s.
\n-$0 cover charge\, donations welcome to help support artists

After many ye ars as a graphic designer\, illustrator and copywriter\, Dale Champlin now devotes most of her time to writing poetry. Her MFA in painting and photo graphy developed her critical eye. Dale’s first book of poetry\, Doggerel\ ; twelve dogs and one cat\, and her chapbook\, Twisted Furniture\, were pu blished last year. Currently she is working on two collections\, Leda\, an d Feathers\, a series of monochords about birds. When she’s not writing po etry\, Dale designs books\, publicity campaigns and logos. As adjunct to t he board of the Oregon Poetry Association\, she is the editor of the 2017 Verseweavers collection of poetry. Dale is the current director of Convers ations With Writers\, a monthly presentation by accomplished writers leadi ng spirited discussions about the craft of writing. Dale has published in Social Justice Poetry\, North Coast Squid\, and VoiceCatchers.

Fea tured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hos ts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!\n

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the inte rsection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

Robert Hunter Jones spent three years as a logger in the Oregon Coast Range and two yea rs working the swing shift in a sawmill in his home town of Lakeside\, Ore gon. His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review\, American Poetry Review\, Cumberland Poetry Review\, and as well as his own collections Win ter Garden\, which won the 2014 Gerald Cable Book Award (Silverfish Review Press) and The Clever Man’s Forest (Traprock Books\, 2011). Since 1990 he has taught Literature and Theory of Knowledge at American International S chool of Vienna\, in Vienna\, Austria\, where he lives with his wife and t wo children. Clemens Starck\, Oregon poet and carpenter\, lives in the foo thills of the Coast Range\, outside of Dallas. He is the author of six boo ks of poetry\, including the award-winning Journeyman’s Wages (1995) and t he most recent Old Dogs\, New Tricks (2016). His collected poems\, Cathedr als & Parking Lots\, will be published in November 2018.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, t he Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

Joe Wilkins i s the author of a memoir\, The Mountain and the Fathers\, and three collec tions of poetry\, including When We Were Birds\, winner of the 2017 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His debut novel\, Fall Back Down When I Die\, is fo rthcoming from Little\, Brown in early 2019. He lives with his family in w estern Oregon\, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield College.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will dire ctly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ike box.com/

From 12-3 in the courtyard in front of the shop\, we have local authors reading in 15 m in increments.

Nitza Hernánd ez-López was born in Puerto Rico and is a retired professor at the Univers ity of Puerto Rico. Her art works include acrylic painting\, photography\, and poetry. Lopez’ has been exhibited at events and art galleries in Sale m and Independence\,OR. In December She won the third prize in the Poetry Contest of the Institute of Oregonian Culture (ICO) and several of her poe ms have been published in the 1A Antologia de Poesia Oregoniana. Her poems and art pieces reflect her social concerns\, multicultural identity and h er connection with her origins.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wi de variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage .
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

In the courty ard in front of the shop we have local authors reading in 15 min increment s\, from 12-3.

Animal behavi orist/writer Rosemary Douglas Lombard enjoyed roles as biomedical libraria n\, naturalist\, and university teacher\, but cherishes decades exploring turtles’ cognitive potential. She won firsts in nonfiction and poetry and published in Bay Nature and Verseweavers\, among others. Writings include Turtles All the Way (Finishing Line Press) and WIP Diode’s Experiment.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack o ptions!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

Stephanie Len ox is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently The Business\ , winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry\, and Congress of Strange People \, a collection of poems inspired by Guinness World record holders. Her te xtbook\, Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology\, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury this fall. She lives in Salem where she works as an instructional editor for Chemeketa Press.

Featured reader be gins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Bo x\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Che mawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

There will be a sign-up sheet at the even t for those wishing to read during the open mic portion of the evening. Th ere will be poetry books available and light refreshments served. Please j oin us for a wonderful evening of poetry.

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47123@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Willa Schneberg\, Leanne Grabel and Tim Raphael at 7PM for the Weds. September 5th Plonk Reading Seriesprogram at the Corkscrew Wine Bar\ , 1665 SE Bybee in Sellwood. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180905T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180905T200000 GEO:+45.473818;-122.648596 LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar @ 1665 SE Bybee Blvd\, Portland\, OR 97202\, US A SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Plonk Reading Series: Willa Schneberg\, Leanne Grabel and Tim Rapha el URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/plonk-reading-series-willa-schneberg-lean ne-grabel-and-tim-raphael/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Willa Schnebe rg\, Leanne Grabel and Tim Raphael at 7PM for the Weds. September 5th Plon k Reading Seriesprogram at the Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 1665 SE Bybee in Sellw ood.

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47082@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Marc Janssen\; 503-779-8164\; mrcjanssen@msn.com\; https://www.face book.com/SalemPoetryProject/ DESCRIPTION:A. Molotkov’s poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Thin gs (2016)\, Application of Shadows (Main Street Rag\, September 2018) and Synonyms for Silence (2019). Published by Kenyon\, Iowa\, Massachusetts\, Atlanta\, and Bennington Reviews\, Molotkov is winner of various fiction/p oetry contests and an Oregon Literary Fellowship. Find him at AMolotkov.co m.\nFeatured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack op tions! DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180906T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180906T210000 GEO:+44.940882;-123.033276 LOCATION:IKE Box @ 299 Cottage St NE\, Salem\, OR 97301\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salem Poetry Project Featuring Anotoloy Molotkov URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/salem-poetry-project-featuring-anotoloy-m olotkov/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

A. Molotkov’s poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things (2016)\, Application of Shadows (Main Street Rag\, September 2018) and Synonyms for Silence (20 19). Published by Kenyon\, Iowa\, Massachusetts\, Atlanta\, and Bennington Reviews\, Molotkov is winner of various fiction/poetry contests and an Or egon Literary Fellowship. Find him at AMolotkov.com.

Featured read er begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the I ke Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47122@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Reading Sunday\, Sept. 9\, at the Market’s mainstage will be:\n Stephen Fowler is a performing artist\, activist\, justice advocate\, and community educator from Portland Oregon. Stephen used his time to educate and expand his understanding of self-worth\, potential\, and purpose using art forms. Stephen is a co-founder of Verbal Escape which shows adolescen ts the power of their own voice and story.\nAndrea Hollander moved to Port land\, Oregon\, in 2011\, after many years in the Arkansas Ozarks\, where she ran a bed & breakfast for 15 years and served as the Writer-in-Residen ce at Lyon College for 22. Hollander’s 5th full-length poetry collection\, Blue Mistaken for Sky\, is due from Autumn House Press in September 2018. Her 4th was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award\; her 1st won the Nichol as Roerich Poetry Prize. Hollander’s many other honors include the Vern Ru tsala Award\, an Oregon Literary Fellowship\, two Pushcart Prizes (in poet ry and literary nonfiction)\, and two fellowships from the National Endowm ent of the Arts. Her website is www.andreahollander.net.\nTom Richards is the author of Thirst for Beginners\; Poetry\, Prose and Quizzes\, forthcom ing in 2019 from University of Hell Press. His work has appeared in Phenom enal Literature\, TheBigSmoke.com\, the Writers’ Collective Anthology\, an d was recently writer in residence at Mother Foucault’s Books in Portland\ , Oregon. Tom is also the editor and publisher of The Portland Permanent P ress\, a monthly comedy and humor magazine\, with Joe Sacco. He curated Th e Faux Museum in Portland\, and has written for Willamette Week\, the Oreg onia\, and had a monthly column in the Paperback Jukebox called Last First Thursday.\nCarey Taylor is a native Oregonian who lives in Portland\, Ore gon. She has been published in regional\, national and international journ als and was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. She is the author of The Lure of Impermanence (Cirque Press)\, forthcoming in the summer of 2018. W hen not worrying about earthquakes\, she enjoys hiking\, traveling and a g ood scotch whisky. https://careyleetaylor.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180909T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180909T101500 GEO:+45.481318;-122.568589 LOCATION:Portland Farmers Market - Lents International @ SE Reedway St & SE 92nd Ave\, Portland\, OR 97266\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Lents Farmers Market Poetry Reading URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/lents-farmers-market-poetry-reading/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Reading Sunda y\, Sept. 9\, at the Market’s mainstage will be:

Stephen Fowler is a performing artist\, activist\, justice advocate\, and community educato r from Portland Oregon. Stephen used his time to educate and expand his un derstanding of self-worth\, potential\, and purpose using art forms. Steph en is a co-founder of Verbal Escape which shows adolescents the power of t heir own voice and story.

Andrea Hollander moved to Portland\, Ore gon\, in 2011\, after many years in the Arkansas Ozarks\, where she ran a bed & breakfast for 15 years and served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College for 22. Hollander’s 5th full-length poetry collection\, Blue Mist aken for Sky\, is due from Autumn House Press in September 2018. Her 4th w as a finalist for the Oregon Book Award\; her 1st won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Hollander’s many other honors include the Vern Rutsala Awar d\, an Oregon Literary Fellowship\, two Pushcart Prizes (in poetry and lit erary nonfiction)\, and two fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts. Her website is www.andreahollander.net.

Tom Ri chards is the author of Thirst for Beginners\; Poetry\, Prose and Quizzes\ , forthcoming in 2019 from University of Hell Press. His work has appeared in Phenomenal Literature\, TheBigSmoke.com\, the Writers’ Collective Anth ology\, and was recently writer in residence at Mother Foucault’s Books in Portland\, Oregon. Tom is also the editor and publisher of The Portland P ermanent Press\, a monthly comedy and humor magazine\, with Joe Sacco. He curated The Faux Museum in Portland\, and has written for Willamette Week\ , the Oregonia\, and had a monthly column in the Paperback Jukebox called Last First Thursday.

Carey Taylor is a native Oregonian who lives in Portland\, Oregon. She has been published in regional\, national and in ternational journals and was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. She is t he author of The Lure of Impermanence (Cirque Press)\, forthcoming in the summer of 2018. When not worrying about earthquakes\, she enjoys hiking\, traveling and a good scotch whisky. https://careyleetaylor.com

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47069@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Multnomah County Library\; 503-988-5123\; https://multcolib.org/eve nts/celebrating-quintessentially-oregon-book/90331 DESCRIPTION:Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets is a unique book b y Eugene essayist and poet Erik Muller\, one that honors the work of six O regon poets. At this event\, Erik Muller\, Barbara Drake\, Paulann Peterse n\, Lex Runciman and Clemens Starck will spotlight this one-of-a-kind volu me\, which includes—for each of six poets—an extensive essay and a portfol io of poems.\nThe program will include remarks from Erik Muller\, poetry r eadings from four of the poets\, and a wide-ranging discussion with those in attendance.\nhttps://multcolib.org/events/celebrating-quintessentially- oregon-book/90331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180909T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180909T163000 GEO:+45.519125;-122.683084 LOCATION:Multnomah County Central Library @ 801 SW 10th Ave\, Portland\, OR 97205\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Celebrating a Quintessentially Oregon Book URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/celebrating-a-quintessentially-oregon-boo k/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Durable Goods : Appreciations of Oregon Poets is a unique book by Eugene essayist and po et Erik Muller\, one that honors the work of six Oregon poets. At this eve nt\, Erik Muller\, Barbara Drake\, Paulann Petersen\, Lex Runciman and Cle mens Starck will spotlight this one-of-a-kind volume\, which includes—for each of six poets—an extensive essay and a portfolio of poems.

The program will include remarks from Erik Muller\, poetry readings from four of the poets\, and a wide-ranging discussion with those in attendance.

https://multcolib.org/events/celebrating-quintessentiall y-oregon-book/90331

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47121@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Free Range Poetry presents Judith Barrington\, Francis Opila\, Leah Stenson Monday\, September 10\, 2018 (second Monday of September)\nNo rthwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland\nAn open mic will precede featured poets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm.\nJudith Barrington’sf ifth collection of poetry\,Long Love: New & Selected Poemswas launched on June 12th. She is also the author of The Conversation(2015)\, whose title poem was the winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International poetry award. In 2001 Lifesaving: A Memoirwas the winner of the Lambda Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Judit h is also the author of the best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art andhas been a faculty member of the University of Alaska\, Anchorage’ s MFA Program. Much sought after as a teacher\, she has run workshops arou nd the U.S.\, Britain and Spain. She was co-founder of The Flight of the M ind summer writing workshop\, which brought writers from all over the coun try to the McKenzie River for 18 years. She is also one of the founders of Soapstone Inc.\nFrancis Opilahas lived in the Pacific Northwest most of h is adult life\; he currently resides in Portland\, OR. His work\, recreati on\, and spirit have taken him out into the woods\, wetlands\, mountains\, and rivers. He works as an environmental scientist\, primarily with water quality. His poetry has been published in Latitude on 2nd\, Empirical\, a nd Parks and Points. He enjoys performing poetry\, combining recitation an d playing Native American flute.\nLeah Stensonis the author of two chapboo ks\, Heavenly Bodyand The Turquoise Bee and Other Love Poems\, published b y Finishing Line Press in 2011 and 2014\, respectively\; a regional editor of Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest (Oo ligan Press\, 2013) and co-editor of Reverberations from Fukushima (Inkwat er Press\, 2014). Her full-length poetry book\, Everywhere I Find Myselfwa s published by WordTech Communications’ Turning Point imprint in December of 2017. She serves on the board of Tavern Books. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180910T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180910T193000 GEO:+45.535334;-122.699119 LOCATION:Multnomah County Library - Northwest @ 2300 NW Thurman St\, Portla nd\, OR 97210\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY: URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/47121/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Free Range Po etry presents Judith Barrington\, Francis Opila\, Leah Stenson Monday\, Se ptember 10\, 2018 (second Monday of September)

Northwest Library 2 300 NW Thurman Street Portland

An open mic will precede featured p oets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm.

Judith Barrington’sfift h collection of poetry\,Long Love: New & Selected Poemswas launched on Jun e 12th. She is also the author of The Conversation(2015)\, whose title poe m was the winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International poetry award. In 2001 Lifesaving: A Memoirwas the winner of the Lambda Book Award and a fin alist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Judith i s also the author of the best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Ar t andhas been a faculty member of the University of Alaska\, Anchorage’s M FA Program. Much sought after as a teacher\, she has run workshops around the U.S.\, Britain and Spain. She was co-founder of The Flight of the Mind summer writing workshop\, which brought writers from all over the country to the McKenzie River for 18 years. She is also one of the founders of So apstone Inc.

Francis Opilahas lived in the Pacific Northwest most of his adult life\; he currently resides in Portland\, OR. His work\, recr eation\, and spirit have taken him out into the woods\, wetlands\, mountai ns\, and rivers. He works as an environmental scientist\, primarily with w ater quality. His poetry has been published in Latitude on 2nd\, Empirical \, and Parks and Points. He enjoys performing poetry\, combining recitatio n and playing Native American flute.

Leah Stensonis the author of two chapbooks\, Heavenly Bodyand The Turquoise Bee and Other Love Poems\, published by Finishing Line Press in 2011 and 2014\, respectively\; a regi onal editor of Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific No rthwest (Ooligan Press\, 2013) and co-editor of Reverberations from Fukush ima (Inkwater Press\, 2014). Her full-length poetry book\, Everywhere I Fi nd Myselfwas published by WordTech Communications’ Turning Point imprint i n December of 2017. She serves on the board of Tavern Books.

\n< /HTML> END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47089@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:The Twelfth Season will begin with a reading by Paul Merchant o n Wednesday\, September 12 and continue through June 2019. Other readers i n this season are Samiya Bashir\, George Venn\, Andrea Hollander\, Kristin Berger\, Tim Whitsell\, Carolyn Martin\, Joseph A. Soldati\, Vince Wixon and Shaindel Beers. We are honored by the participation of this outstandin g lineup of local poets. We thank the City of Milwaukie for its support an d all the volunteers that make this series possible.\nA flyer of the readi ngs is located on our website\, which you can print and post. We encourage everyone to forward our information to anyone that you feel might have an interest in the Series. If you would like flyers mailed to you\, please c ontact Tom Hogan.\nFor information about the readings\, please contact the Series Coordinator\, Tom Hogan\, at (503) 819-8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.n et or Ledding Library of Milwaukie Reference Librarian\, Sarah Roller at ( 503) 786-7580 or rollers@milwaukieoregon.gov. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180912T190000 GEO:+45.446309;-122.639769 LOCATION:Ledding Library Pond House @ 2215 SE Harrison St\, Milwaukie\, OR 97222\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Milwaukie Poetry Series URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/milwaukie-poetry-series/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

The Twelfth S eason will begin with a reading by Paul Merchant on Wednesday\, September 12 and continue through June 2019. Other readers in this season are Samiya Bashir\, George Venn\, Andrea Hollander\, Kristin Berger\, Tim Whitsell\, Carolyn Martin\, Joseph A. Soldati\, Vince Wixon and Shaindel Beers. We a re honored by the participation of this outstanding lineup of local poets. We thank the City of Milwaukie for its support and all the volunteers tha t make this series possible.

A flyer of the readings is located on our website\, which you can print and post. We encourage everyone to forw ard our information to anyone that you feel might have an interest in the Series. If you would like flyers mailed to you\, please contact Tom Hogan.

For information about the readings\, please contact the Series Co ordinator\, Tom Hogan\, at (503) 819-8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.net or Ledd ing Library of Milwaukie Reference Librarian\, Sarah Roller at (503) 786-7 580 or rollers@milwaukieoregon.gov.

\n X-INSTANT-EVENT:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47083@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Marc Janssen\; 5037798164\; mrcjanssen@msn.com\; https://www.facebo ok.com/SalemPoetryProject/ DESCRIPTION:David\, a transplant to Oregon from the southeast\, has partici pated in poetry readings at Unitarian Universalist churches in Salem and M cMinnville\, at the Book Bin open mics\, and at the Salem Poetry Project. David is a veteran of the construction industry and currently works at Kil gore Blackman Building Materials. The curse of the English major causes su dden attacks of David’s having to write things down. Poems occasionally re sult from this process.\nFeatured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic w ill directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of b everages and snack options! DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180913T210000 GEO:+44.940882;-123.033276 LOCATION:IKE Box @ 299 Cottage St NE\, Salem\, OR 97301\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salem Poetry Project Featuring David Jeffers URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/salem-poetry-project-featuring-david-jeff ers-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

David\, a tra nsplant to Oregon from the southeast\, has participated in poetry readings at Unitarian Universalist churches in Salem and McMinnville\, at the Book Bin open mics\, and at the Salem Poetry Project. David is a veteran of th e construction industry and currently works at Kilgore Blackman Building M aterials. The curse of the English major causes sudden attacks of David’s having to write things down. Poems occasionally result from this process.\n

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly foll ow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snac k options!

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47072@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Shawn Aveningo Sanders\; 5304090721\; shawn@thepoetrybox.com\; http ://ThePoetryBox.com DESCRIPTION:Featuring:\nNancy Flynn\, Christopher Luna\, Linda Ferguson\, D an Raphael\, Julene Tripp Weaver\, Eleanor Berry\, Lindy Low Le Coq\, Vivi enne Popperl\, Cathy Cain\, Eleanor Kedney\, Kathleen Patterson\, Collette Tennant\, Laura LeHew\, Brad G. Garber\, Brittney Corrigan\, Lynn Knapp & Shawn Aveningo Sanders\nTickets: http://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/the-po eming-pigeon-in-the-news. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180915T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180915T160000 LOCATION:The Pond House @ Ledding Library @ 2215 SE Harrison St\, Milwaukie \, OR 97222\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Poeming Pigeon: In the News Book Launch URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/the-poeming-pigeon-in-the-news-book-launc h/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Featuring:
\nNancy Flynn\, Christopher Luna\, Linda Ferguson\, Dan Raphael\, Julen e Tripp Weaver\, Eleanor Berry\, Lindy Low Le Coq\, Vivienne Popperl\, Cat hy Cain\, Eleanor Kedney\, Kathleen Patterson\, Collette Tennant\, Laura L eHew\, Brad G. Garber\, Brittney Corrigan\, Lynn Knapp & Shawn Aveningo Sa nders

Tickets: http://thepoetry box.com/bookstore/the-poeming-pigeon-in-the-news.

X-TICKETS-URL:http://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/the-poeming-pigeon-in-the-n ews END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47119@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:From Paulann Petersen:\nPlease join me to celebrate the launch of Andrea Hollander’s 5th full-length poetry collection\, Blue Mistaken fo r Sky\, at Powell’s City of Books\, 1005 W. Burnside\, at 2 p.m. on Sunday \, September 16.\nIn her masterful\, inclusive way—I love the way she welc omes a listener into her poems as she gives voice to them—Andrea will read selections from her new book\, and this is a reading you don’t want to mi ss.\nAfter her reading\, I’ll host a discussion of Andrea’s work\, one tha t will include responding to questions from the audience\, an audience I h ope will include you.\nThough Powell’s lists this event as Andrea Hollande r in Conversation with Paulann Petersen\, I think of it as “Andrea in conv ersation with the lucky people who have just heard her read some of the sp lendid poems in her new collection.”\nA couple of pre-publication reviews will give you some idea about the power and resonance of the poems in Blue Mistaken for Sky. In one of these reviews\, Grace Cavalieri says\, “Some days\, I think that hope is such a long way away\, and then I read a poet like this — and life is in full gear. “\nPlease take a look at these lauda tory reviews\, and then come to Powell’s on Sunday\, September 16th\, to h ear Andrea read from the book that’s occasioning such high\, high praise. \nhttps://rhinopoetry.org/reviews-vol-3/\nhttp://www.washingtonindependent reviewofbooks.com/features/august-2018-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-c avalieri DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180916T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180916T150000 GEO:+45.523097;-122.681325 LOCATION:Powell's City of Books @ 1005 W Burnside St\, Portland\, OR 97209\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Portland: Andrea Hollander book launch URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/portland-andrea-hollander-book-launch/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

From Paulann Petersen:

Please join me to celebrate the launch of Andrea Hollander’s 5th full-length poetry colle ction\, Blue Mistaken for Sky\, at Powell’s City of Books\, 1005 W. Burnsi de\, at 2 p.m. on Sunday\, September 16.

In her masterful\, inclus ive way—I love the way she welcomes a listener into her poems as she gives voice to them—Andrea will read selections from her new book\, and this is a reading you don’t want to miss.

After her reading\, I’ll host a discussion of Andrea’s work\, one that will include responding to questio ns from the audience\, an audience I hope will include you.

Though Powell’s lists this event as Andrea Hollander in Conversation with Paulan n Petersen\, I think of it as “Andrea in conversation with the lucky peopl e who have just heard her read some of the splendid poems in her new colle ction.”

A couple of pre-publication reviews will give you some ide a about the power and resonance of the poems in Blue Mistaken for Sky. In one of these reviews\, Grace Cavalieri says\, “Some days\, I think that ho pe is such a long way away\, and then I read a poet like this — and life i s in full gear. “

Please take a look at these laudatory reviews\, and then come to Powell’s on Sunday\, September 16th\, to hear Andrea read from the book that’s occasioning such high\, high praise.

https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews-vol-3/

http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a ugust-2018-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri

\n< /HTML> END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47058@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Joan Maiers\; 503-344-4449\; jmaiers@yahoo.com DESCRIPTION:Celebrate poetry published by Gerry Foote and student writers f eatured in Honoring Our Rivers 2018.\nFree and open to the public. Donatio ns of canned goods or cash collected for Food Bank.\nBooks available for p urchase and signing. Free parking next door or across the street.\nHosted by Joan Maiers. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180916T150000 GEO:+45.416181;-122.663927 LOCATION:Stickmen Brewing Company @ 40 N State St\, Lake Oswego\, OR 97034\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Peregrine Literary Series URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/peregrine-literary-series-16/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Celebrate poe try published by Gerry Foote and student writers featured in Honoring Our Rivers 2018.
\nFree and open to the public. Donations of canned goods or cash collected for Food Bank.
\nBooks available for purchase and signing. Free parking next door or across the street.
\nHosted by Joa n Maiers.

\n X-INSTANT-EVENT:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47084@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Marc Janssen\; 5037798164\; mrcjanssen@msn.com\; https://www.facebo ok.com/SalemPoetryProject/ DESCRIPTION:Lidia Schiedler\, was born in Mexico City as Lidia María Teresa Pérez Ruiz. At a Catholic Salesian school in Mexico City\, the nuns polis hed her academic education including fostering a love of literature\, scie nce and religion studies. There Schiedler learned about sacred poetry\, a subject that has been a constant in her life. She attended UNAM\, where sh e obtained a degree as a Dental Surgeon\; she has both taught Pediatric De ntistry and owned a private office. Since Schiedler moved to the USA\, she has been part of the morning choir at the San Felipe Church in Dallas\, O R. Some of her poetry was published in the 1st Anthology of Oregonian Poet ry.\nFeatured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack o ptions! DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180920T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180920T210000 GEO:+44.940882;-123.033276 LOCATION:IKE Box @ 299 Cottage St NE\, Salem\, OR 97301\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salem Poetry Project Featuring Lidia Schiedler URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/salem-poetry-project-featuring-lidia-schi edler/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Lidia Schiedl er\, was born in Mexico City as Lidia María Teresa Pérez Ruiz. At a Cathol ic Salesian school in Mexico City\, the nuns polished her academic educati on including fostering a love of literature\, science and religion studies . There Schiedler learned about sacred poetry\, a subject that has been a constant in her life. She attended UNAM\, where she obtained a degree as a Dental Surgeon\; she has both taught Pediatric Dentistry and owned a priv ate office. Since Schiedler moved to the USA\, she has been part of the mo rning choir at the San Felipe Church in Dallas\, OR. Some of her poetry wa s published in the 1st Anthology of Oregonian Poetry.

Featured rea der begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47070@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Shawn Aveningo Sanders\; 5304090721\; shawn@thepoetrybox.com\; http ://ThePoetryBox.com DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating three new chapbooks: In These Voices by Sherri Levine\, Womanhood & Other Scars by Rebecca Smolen & Painting the H eart Open by Liz Nakazawa.\nTickets: http://thepoetrybox.com/chapbook-laun ch-trifecta-sept-26. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180926T190000 LOCATION:Annie Bloom's Books @ 7834 SW Capitol Hwy\, Portland\, OR 97219\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Poetry Box Authors at Annie Bloom’s Books URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/poetry-box-authors-at-annie-blooms-books/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Join us in ce lebrating three new chapbooks: In These Voices by Sherri Levine\, Womanhoo d & Other Scars by Rebecca Smolen & Painting the Heart Open by Liz Nakazaw a.

Tickets: http://thepoetrybox.com/cha pbook-launch-trifecta-sept-26.

X-TICKETS-URL:http://thepoetrybox.com/chapbook-launch-trifecta-sept-26 X-INSTANT-EVENT:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47071@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Shawn Aveningo Sanders\; 5304090721\; shawn@thepoetrybox.com\; http ://ThePoetryBox.com DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating three new chapbooks: In These Voices by Sherri Levine\, Womanhood & Other Scars by Rebecca Smolen & Painting the H eart Open by Liz Nakazawa.\nTickets: http://thepoetrybox.com/another-chapb ook-launch-trifecta. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180927T070000 LOCATION:Another Read Through @ 3932 N Mississippi Ave\, Portland\, OR 9722 7\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Poetry Box Authors at Another Read Through Bookstore URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/poetry-box-authors-at-another-read-throug h-bookstore/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Join us in ce lebrating three new chapbooks: In These Voices by Sherri Levine\, Womanhoo d & Other Scars by Rebecca Smolen & Painting the Heart Open by Liz Nakazaw a.

Tickets: http://thepoetrybox.com/ano ther-chapbook-launch-trifecta.

X-TICKETS-URL:http://thepoetrybox.com/another-chapbook-launch-trifecta X-INSTANT-EVENT:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47085@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Marc Janssen\; 5037798164\; mrcjanssen@msn.com\; https://www.facebo ok.com/SalemPoetryProject/ DESCRIPTION:Eleanor Berry has taught writing and literature at Willamette U niversity and other colleges. She is a past president of the National Fede ration of State Poetry Societies and the Oregon Poetry Association. Her fi rst book of poetry\, Green November (2007)\, was published by Traprock Boo ks\; her second\, No Constant Hues (2015)\, by Turnstone Books.\nFeatured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, t he Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options! DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180927T210000 GEO:+44.940882;-123.033276 LOCATION:IKE Box @ 299 Cottage St NE\, Salem\, OR 97301\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salem Poetry Project Featuring Eleanor Berry URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/salem-poetry-project-featuring-eleanor-be rry/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Eleanor Berry has taught writing and literature at Willamette University and other coll eges. She is a past president of the National Federation of State Poetry S ocieties and the Oregon Poetry Association. Her first book of poetry\, Gre en November (2007)\, was published by Traprock Books\; her second\, No Con stant Hues (2015)\, by Turnstone Books.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feat ure a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47052@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Jenny Root\; 541-521-3583 DESCRIPTION:Roy Seitz\, Scot Siegel\, and Annie Lighthart DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T203000 GEO:+44.046443;-123.019341 LOCATION:Emerald Art Center @ 500 Main St\, Springfield\, OR 97477\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Springfield Poetry Series URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/springfield-poetry-series/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Roy Seitz\, S cot Siegel\, and Annie Lighthart

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47135@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Carter McKenzie\; 541-953-4986\; cartermck@epud.net DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading featuring Scot Siegel\, Annie Lighthart\, and Roy R. Seitz. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T210000 GEO:+44.046443;-123.019341 LOCATION:Emerald Art Center @ 500 Main St\, Springfield\, OR 97477\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Springfield Poetry Series URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/springfield-poetry-series-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

A poetry read ing featuring Scot Siegel\, Annie Lighthart\, and Roy R. Seitz.

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47152@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Marc Janssen\; 503-779-8164\; mrcjanssen@msn.com\; https://www.face book.com/SalemPoetryProject/ DESCRIPTION:John Dooley is a retired poetry slammer (three years on the Por tland Nationals team)\, and former columnist and features writer. He has n ine spoken-word albums to his credit\, and 40-some small press publication s. John’s albums Oral Foibles\, and Oral Foibles II – The Jackening are on Amazon\, Billboard Music\, Apple Music\, Spotify\, Pandora\, and iTunes. He is a two-time winner of Comedy Central’s @Midnight #HashtagWars\, and l ives near an owl\, in Jennings Lodge\, Oregon.\nFeatured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feat ure a wide variety of beverages and snack options!\nThe Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottag e.\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/ DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T210000 GEO:+44.940882;-123.033276 LOCATION:Ike Box @ 299 Cottage St NE\, Salem\, OR 97301\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salem Poetry Project Featuring John Dooley URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/salem-poetry-project-featuring-john-doole y/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

John Dooley i s a retired poetry slammer (three years on the Portland Nationals team)\, and former columnist and features writer. He has nine spoken-word albums t o his credit\, and 40-some small press publications. John’s albums Oral Fo ibles\, and Oral Foibles II – The Jackening are on Amazon\, Billboard Musi c\, Apple Music\, Spotify\, Pandora\, and iTunes. He is a two-time winner of Comedy Central’s @Midnight #HashtagWars\, and lives near an owl\, in Je nnings Lodge\, Oregon.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variet y of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Co ttage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\n http://www.ikebox.com/

\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47173@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:The Milwaukie Poetry Series of the Ledding Library of Milwaukie and St. John the Evangelist are delighted to continue this season of Firs t Friday poetry readings for 2018 on Friday\, October 5. It’s going to be another great summer of reading and sharing poetry!\n The reading will be part of the October 5 First Friday festivities\, and will take pla ce from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.in the meeting room at St. John the Evangelist ch urch\, located at 2036 SE Jefferson St.\n The reading will be a tri bute to the Seventh Oregon Poet Laureate\, Peter Sears. (1937-2017). “I w rite poems because I need art in order to seek full expression\,” he said in a 2010 interview with \nthe Oregonian. Featured Readers will be Robin Cody\, Dave Jarecki\, John Morrison\, Paulann Petersen\, Ann Staley and Colette Tennant. They will share memories and read from Peter’s work for a pproximately 40 minutes.\n Peter Sears was a graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writers Workshop and came to Oregon in 1974 to teach at Reed Coll ege and served in teaching and administrative roles at Bard College and Pa cific University. His work has appeared in various national and literary m agazines and newspapers. He is the author of four full-length poetry colle ctions:Tour (1987)\, The Brink (1999)\,Green Diver (2009) and Small Talk: New and Selected Poems ( 2014)\, a number of poetry chapbooks\, and books on teaching writing\, including Secret Writing\, and I‘m Gonna Bake Me a R ainbow Poem.\n He was a founding director of the Oregon Literary Coalition and cofounder of Cloudbank Books. He served as Oregon Poet Laure ate from 2014 to 2016\, making more than sixty public appearances in commu nities all over Oregon. During his tenure\, he focused on what he called “ expanding voices\,” often sharing the stage with poets working in language s other than English.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n An Open Mic session will f ollow for all who wish to read from Peter’s work or share a memory or stor y in his honor. To get on the list to read ahead of time\, please contact Tom Hogan at 503-819-8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.net. For information about the Milwaukie Poetry Series readings or other events\, also contact Tom at (503) 819-8367 or email him at tomhogan2@comcast.net. There will be a s ign-up sheet at the event for those wishing to share. Peter’s books will b e available and light refreshments will be served. Please join us for a wo nderful evening. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181005T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181005T193000 GEO:+45.443148;-122.640353 LOCATION:St. John the Evangelist @ 2036 SE Jefferson St\, Milwaukie\, OR 9 7222\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:First Friday Poetry Reading and Open Mic – Tribute to Peter Sears URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/first-friday-poetry-reading-and-open-mic- tribute-to-peter-sears/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

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The Milwaukie Poetry Series of the Ledding Library of Milwaukie and St. John the Evangelist are delighted to continue this season of First Friday poetr y readings for 2018 on Friday\, October 5. It’s going to be another great summer of reading and sharing poetry!

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The reading will be part of the October 5 First Friday fest ivities\, and will take place from 6:00 to 7:30 p .m.in the meeting room at St. John the Evangelist church\, locate d at 2036 SE Jefferson St.
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The reading will be a tribute t o the Seventh Oregon Poet Laureate\, Peter Sears. (1937-2 017). “I write poems because I need art in order to seek full expression\ ,” he said in a 2010 interview w ith
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the Ore gonian. Featured Readers will be Robin Cody\, Dave J arecki\, John Morrison\, Paulann Petersen\, Ann Staley and Colette Tennant. They will s hare memories and read from Peter’s work for approximately 40 minutes.

Peter Sears was a graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writers Work shop and came to Oregon in 1974 to teach at Reed College and served in tea ching and administrative roles at Bard College and Pacific University. His work has appeared in various national and literary magazines and newspape rs. He is the author of four full-length poetry collections:Tour (1987)\, The Brink (1999)\,Green Diver (2009) a nd Small Talk: New and Selected Poems ( 2014)\, a number of poetry chapbooks\, and books on teaching writing\, including Secret Writing\, and I‘m Go nna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem.

He was a found ing director of the Oregon Literary Coalition and cofounder of Cloudbank B ooks. He served as Oregon Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2016\, making more than sixty public appearances in communiti es all over Oregon. During his tenure\, he focused on what he called “expa nding voices\,” often sharing the stage with poets working in languages ot her than English.

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An Open Mic session will follow for all who wish to read from Peter’s work or share a memory or story in his honor . To get on the list to read ahead of time\, please contact Tom Hogan at 5 03-819-8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.net. For information about the Milwaukie Poetry Series readings or other events\, also contact Tom at (503) 819-8 367 or email him at tomhogan2@comcast.net. There will be a sign -up sheet at the event for those wishing to share. Peter’s books will be a vailable and light refreshments will be served. Please join us for a wonde rful evening.

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R. S. Stewart is a long-time Writing Consultant volunteer at Chemeketa Community Colleg e. His commentaries on poets\, playwrights\, poetry\, and language as well as his flash fiction pieces occur frequently in Salem Weekly. Three of hi s plays have received staged readings\; his poems have been published in m any journals\, both in Europe and the U S.\, among them Canary\; 2 Bridges Review\; Poetry Salzburg Review\; The Journal\; PIF Magazine\; Serving Ho use Journal\; Ink\, Sweat\, & Tears\; Brittle Star\; BlazeVOX\; Willawaw J ournal\; indicia\;\; and The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review.

Featured rea der begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

T he Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

Broadway Book s celebrates the fall 2018 issue of Windfall magazine with a read ing by four northwest poets represented in the issue. Reading at the store on Tuesday\, October 16^th\, at 7 pm will be Emily Anto nia Fox Garcia\, Andrea Hollander\, Tim Raphael\, and Lex Runciman\, as well as the journal’s co-editors Michael M cDowell and Bill Siverly.

Windfall: A Journa l of Poetry of Place features poetry which captures the spir it of place as part of the essence of the poem. The journal particularly e mphasizes poetry written in the Pacific Northwest that is attentive to the relationships between people and the landscapes in which we live. It has been published since 2002.

On Wednesday\ , October 17^th\, at 7 pm we welcome two local poets to the Broa dway Books stage: Carlos Reyes and Matthew Minicucci.

In Along the Flaggy Shore: Poems from West Clare\, the tenth volume of poetry from Carlos Reyes\, the reader is returned again to Ireland\, to the town lands of Letterkelly and Cloonanaha in County Clare. The poems in this col lection capture the stark rural life that has now mostly passed\, as Reyes attempts to gather the remnants of a way of life that was pushed aside an d forgotten\, painting a lyrical picture of a world gone by. In addition t o his collections of poetry\, Reyes has published many volumes of translat ions and a memoir\, Keys to the Cottage\, Stories from the West of Ire land. Reyes most recently read at Broadway Books from his previous co llection\, Guilt in Our Pockets\, Poems from South India.

Matthew Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Small G ods\, a finalist for the 2016 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press\ , and Translation (Kent State University Press\, 2015)\, chosen b y Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize. One reviewer wrote of Small Gods “The poems stick to memory like burrs to a pant leg\,” w hile another wrote “Small Gods enriches us with its moral courage and its compassionate faith in the ultimate value of our fraught humanity .” Currently a lecturer in creative writing\, Minicucci received his BA in Classical Languages and Literature from U-Mass Amherst and his MFA in Cre ative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .

Carol Hottle and Arturo Sarmiento present “Leyendo Between Lines” (Reading entre líneas ) a bilingual literary collaboration. Carol Hottle is a writer\, editor\, educator\, and dancer and has lived in the Northwest for over 20 years. Sh e teaches writing (including poetry) in colleges and universities and comm unity settings. Arturo Sarmiento has published in magazines and newspapers \; and the anthology Antologia de Poesía Oregoniana. In 2017\, Sarmiento w on the second prize of the contest “Primer Concurso de Poesía Oregoniana.”

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly fol low. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and sna ck options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

CELEBRATE AUT UMN WITH POETRY AND MUSIC
\nEnjoy a presentation of A. Moloktov’s lat est publication\, along with guitarist Peter Zisa’s performance of classic al and original compositions in a family-friendly pub setting on the lake. Cash or canned goods collected for local Food Bank.
\nAccessible ven ue\, Free\, abundant parking nearby.

Celebrate the publication of great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology “Suitcase of Ch rysanthemums” and meet an indie press looking for new voices.

Feat uring contributors and special guests Sossity Chiricuzio\, Brad Garber\, L aura LeHew\, Richard Loranger\, Christopher Luna\, Pattie Palmer-Baker\, D an Raphael\, Kelly Terwilliger\, and John Sibley Williams\, plus editor Ja ne Ormerod.

“Suitcase of Chrysanthemums” is an exhilarating c ollection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond.
\nSubmissions for our n ext anthology are open October 15 2018 to January 15 2019.

Poets Frank R ossini and Scot Siegel and animal behaviorist/cognitive psychologist/write r Rosary Lombard will share their work at this October 28\, 2018 River Roa d Reading Series (RRRS) reading. Delectable refreshments will be served. A uthors’ books will be available for purchase and donations will be cheerfu lly accepted.

Started in 19 99\, this annual event features readings by prominent Oregon Jewish writer s. The five writers in the 2018 program\, who span a range of genres inclu ding fiction\, poetry\, non-fiction\, and essays\, will share selections f rom their work in OJMCHE’s auditorium. This year’s writers are Ken Gordon\ , Tracy Prince\, Donna Prinzmetal\, Joshua Safran\, and Hillary Tiefer. Th e curator and founder of this annual event\, Willa Schneberg\, is the emce e for the evening.

This year’s featured writers:
\nKen Gordon is the owner of Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen\, a pioneering artisan Jewish delicatessen with two locations in Portland\, Oregon\, and one at Portlan d International Airport. Ken opened the first location in 2007 in response to the Pacific Northwest’s lack of the food he grew up with in his native New York City. He is partly responsible for a resurgence in the U.S. of t he Jewish deli. Though self-acknowledged as a non-religious Jew\, he feels that opening a Jewish delicatessen in Portland more than makes up for it. He wrote a health and fitness column for The Oregonian.

Tracy J. Prince\, PhD\, is an Affiliated Research Professor at PSU’s American India n Teacher Program. She is the author of Portland’s Goose Hollow and Cultur e Wars in British Literature (with a chapter on British Jewish writers) an d co-author of Portland’s Slabtown and Notable Women of Portland. She has spent over two decades teaching and writing about race\, gender\, and soci al equity issues in humanities\, urban studies\, and English departments i n Turkey\, Canada\, and the U.S. and has spent research time in England\, Australia\, South Africa\, and France. She is currently working on Might O ughta Keep Singin’\, a book about the music of the South.

Donna Pr inzmetal is a poet\, psychotherapist\, and teacher. She often uses writing to facilitate restoration and healing in her psychotherapy practice. Her poems have appeared in many magazines\, including Prairie Schooner\, The C omstock Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, and The Journal. Her first book\, Snow White\, When No One Was Looking\, was published with CW Books in May of 2014.

Joshua Safran is an Orthodox Jew\, author\, attorney\, a nd nationally recognized advocate for survivors of domestic violence. His memoir\, Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid (Hachette)\, about his childhood on the dark side of the Age of Aquarius\, was called a “beautiful\, powerful memoir . . . reminiscent of David Sedaris’s and Au gusten Burroughs’s best work: introspective\, hilarious\, and heartbreakin g” (Publishers Weekly starred review). His legal odyssey to free an incarc erated survivor of domestic abuse from prison was featured in the award-wi nning documentary Crime After Crime. Safran’s essays have been published i n Salon\, The Daily Beast\, Utne Reader\, and Huffington Post\, and his st ory has been heard on the BBC\, NPR\, PBS\, PRX\, CBS\, and Authors at Goo gle.

Although originally from the East Coast\, Hillary Tiefer cons iders herself an Oregonian. She has a PhD in English and is a former colle ge professor. Her short stories have been published in several journals\, among them: Descant\, Blue Moon Literary and Art Review\, Grey Sparrow Jou rnal\, Mission at Tenth\, Poetica Magazine\, Red Rock Review\, and Juxtapr ose Literary Magazine. Lily’s Home Front is her debut novel.

Willa Schneberg is a poet\, visual artist\, curator\, and psychotherapist in pr ivate practice. She has authored five poetry collections\, including In Th e Margins of The World\, recipient of the Oregon Book Award\, and her late st volume\, Rending the Garment. In February of 2018\, she served as a poe t-in-residence in Kathmandu. She founded and curates Oregon Jewish Voices with Judy Margles. This is the 19th season\, and Willa will emcee this yea r’s event.

About Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Edu cation:
\nThe Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education explores the legacy of the Jewish experience in Oregon and teaches the un iversal lessons of the Holocaust. Through exhibitions\, programs\, educati onal resources\, and opportunities for intercultural conversation\, OJMCHE challenges our visitors to resist indifference and discrimination and to envision a just and inclusive world. The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center f or Holocaust Education features\, along with core exhibitions\, national a nd international changing exhibitions that showcase Jewish contributions t o world culture and ideas\, issues of Jewish identity\, and the forces of prejudice. OJMCHE also offers programs\, films\, lectures\, and concerts c over a wide range of topics relating to Jewish art\, culture\, and heritag e\, which stimulate dialogue about identity\, culture\, and assimilation. Education programs embrace the Jewish experience and explore the lessons o f the Holocaust. The organization is the steward of the Oregon Holocaust M emorial\, located in Washington Park\, and of the Archives and Artifact Co llection documenting the Oregon Jewish experience. Tours of the Oregon Hol ocaust Memorial are free and available by appointment. For more informatio n\, visit www.ojmche.org

Media contact: Rebecca Biggs\, Communicat ions Manager 503-226-3600\, bbiggs@ojmche.org

Orego n Jewish Voices\, Readings by Oregon Jewish Writers and Poets
\nTuesday\, October 30\, 2018 at 7:30 PM
\nOregon Jewish Museum an d Center for Holocaust Education
\n724 NW Davis Street\,
\nPortl and\, Oregon 97209

This event in cludes examples of the speaker’s work\, a poetry reading with musical acco mpaniment\, and a discussion of how he “pours his poems into different ves sels” (types of media). Bin Sugawara is Japan’s most recognized poet as th e result of the intersection of his poetry with various forms of media. Hi s first volume of poetry Naked on a Veranda\, the Rabbit and Women\, was p ublished in 2011 in America by PRE/POST\, and was later published in Japan ese in Japan. He has written lyrics for the band Superfly\, produces the o riginal media project Poets’ Weather Report\, and creates installations fo r museums. He frequently reads his poems on radio and television\, and has presented readings throughout Europe and Russia. He has contributed to ma ny magazines\, including Brutus\, Ginza\, and Harper’s Bazaar. His recent work titled “Kanohito” was published by Tokyo Shinbun (The Tokyo Newspaper ). https://www.pdx.edu/cjs/events/what-if-poems-were-water?delta=0

Carey Taylor is the author of The Lure of Impermanence (Cirque Press 2018). Her poetry has appeared in regional\, national and international publications and in 2015 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Born in Bandon\, Oregon\, she has spent her entire life at the western edges of Oregon and Washington\, including ten years in Salem working for the State of Oregon. She has dee p pioneer roots in the Salem area and her Great-Great Grandfather was John Burch McClane (McClaine) who was the first postmaster in Salem. She has a Master of Arts Degree from Pacific Lutheran University in School Counseli ng and a Bachelor’s degree from Linfield College. www.careyleetaylor.com\n

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follo w. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, a t the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47208@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Marc Janssen\; 503-779-8164\; mrcjanssen@msn.com\; https://www.face book.com/SalemPoetryProject/ DESCRIPTION:Rachel Barton\, poet\, writing coach\, and member of the Calyx Editorial Collective\, edits Willawaw Journal\, and co-chairs Willamette W riters on the River. Find her poems in Hubbub\, Whale Road Review\, Cloudb ank\, Mom Egg Review\, Oregon English Journal\, and elsewhere. Out of the Woods was released in 2017. Happiness Comes is just released from Dancing Girl Press.\nFeatured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!\nThe Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/ DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T210000 GEO:+44.940882;-123.033276 LOCATION:Ike Box @ 299 Cottage St NE\, Salem\, OR 97301\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salem Poetry Project featuring Rachel Barton URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/salem-poetry-project-featuring-rachel-bar ton/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Rachel Barton \, poet\, writing coach\, and member of the Calyx Editorial Collective\, e dits Willawaw Journal\, and co-chairs Willamette Writers on the River. Fin d her poems in Hubbub\, Whale Road Review\, Cloudbank\, Mom Egg Review\, O regon English Journal\, and elsewhere. Out of the Woods was released in 20 17. Happiness Comes is just released from Dancing Girl Press.

Feat ured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our host s\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!\n

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the inter section of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

Mago Gilson w as born in Chiapas\, Mexico as Margarita Moreno Zarate. She grew up in Boy eros\, a town between Texcoco City and the University of Chapingo. In Chap ingo she met her husband Jack Gilson\, her English teacher. They moved to USA where Gilson decided became an excellent teacher and was recognized by the President of USA. Now retired\, Gilson remains active playing her gui tar\, singing\, dancing\, and writing poetry.

Featured reader begi ns at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\ , feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike B ox is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chema wa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/

Celebrate a h arvest of words and music with featured award-winning poet\, Andrea Hollan der\, and eclectic guitarist\, Peter Zisa.
\nBooks and CDs available for purchase and autographing for holiday gifts!
\nBring a poem to re ad during the open mike portion of the program.
\nCanned goods or cas h collected to support local Food Bank.

This day’s fe atured reader is YOU. On this night bring lyrics of a favorite song and pe rhaps a little story about why it is important to you. The regular infamou s open mic will directly follow.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 an d the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a w ide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottag e. http://www.ikebox.com/

Join us to ce lebrate the release of our new anthology\, Awake in Waves\, featuring the talented writers from our fall workshops in schools\, assisted living faci lities\, affordable housing buildings and other agencies. Few Portland eve nts include so many diverse voices!

The reading is free\, ADA-acce ssible and open to all. Books will be available for purchase. Free guided playtime for children is provided.

These readings are funded in pa rt by generous support from: Oregon Cultural Trust\, Regional Arts & Cultu re Council and Oregon Arts Commission.

For more info\, call 503.79 6.9224 or visit https://writearound.org/events.
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\nLocation: First United Methodist Church is located at the corner of S W 18th and Jefferson St. at the Goose Hollow MAX stop and near a number of TriMet bus stops. There is limited onsite parking available.

Ann Staley ha s published three collections of poems: Primary Sources\, 2011\, Instructi ons For The Wishing Light\, 2013 through Booktrope Press\, Seattle\, Washi ngton and Afternoon Sky\, Harney Desert\, 8th Street Press. She has been n ominated twice for Oregon Poetr Laureate and once for an Oregon Book Award . She named herself the Poet Laureate of 8th Street a few years ago. Ann w ill be reading from a new chapbook\, Age of Bronze (30+ poems and an essay ) to be published in December. She hopes to have them available at her Dec ember Reading in Salem. Her favorite definition of writing: “Writing is th inking made visible.”

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cot tage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nh ttp://www.ikebox.com/

The reading is free\, ADA-acce ssible and everyone is welcome. Books will be available for purchase.

This reading is funded in part by generous support from: Oregon Cultu ral Trust\, Regional Arts & Culture Council and Oregon Arts Commission.

For more info\, call 503.796.9224 or visit https://writearound.org/e vents/.
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\nLocation: The Rosewoo d Initiative is located in the Village Square shopping center at SE 162nd Ave and SE Stark St (next to Su Casa Super Mercado) and is one block from the Max Blue Line. Ample free parking is available at the Village Square s hopping center.

Rain Spark is a coop gallery with 34 artists which includes Geraldine Foote and her Pea ce Leaves. She will read from her new chapbook\, “Mouth Toward Sky”\, and will be joined by Dianne Stepp and Mike Langtry. Reception begins at 5pm\, reading at 6PM.

Sherri Levine lives in Portland\, Oregon. Her work has been published in The Timberline Review\, WillawawJournal\, Verseweavers\, and The Sun Magazine. She won F irst Prize (Poet’s Choice) in the Oregon Poetry Association’s Contest (201 7). Sherri served as Poetry Editor for VoiceCatcher Magazine. Her debut ch apbook\,In These Voices\, has recently been published by The Poetry Box.\n

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follo w. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, a t the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://www.ikebox.com/\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47295@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Marc Janssen\; 5037798164\; mrcjanssen@msn.com\; https://www.facebo ok.com/SalemPoetryProject/ DESCRIPTION:You are the featured reader! Bring your favorite poem about Chr istmas\, Hanukah\, Thanksgiving…Festivus and maybe a little story about it . The infamous open mike will follow.\nFeatured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wid e variety of beverages and snack options!\nThe Ike Box is located at 229 C ottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.\nhttp: //www.ikebox.com/ DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181220T210000 GEO:+44.940882;-123.033276 LOCATION:IKE Box @ 299 Cottage St NE\, Salem\, OR 97301\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salem Poetry Project Featuring Holiday Poems URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/salem-poetry-project-featuring-holiday-po ems-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

You are the f eatured reader! Bring your favorite poem about Christmas\, Hanukah\, Thank sgiving…Festivus and maybe a little story about it. The infamous open mike will follow.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beve rages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage.
\nhttp://ww w.ikebox.com/

Poets Rachel Swafford\, Kristin Berger\, Kristin Berger and Carl Swart will share their work. Poets’ books will be available for purchase and refreshments will b e served.

The first Thu rsday of 2019 will feature poets from the chapbook “Speaking Peace: Poems for Salem from the Salem Peace Mosaic.” Copies of the chapbook and that Sa ve the Salem Peace Mosaic t-shirts\, tote bags\, etc. will be sold at the reading to benefit SSPM.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the op en mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide vari ety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage. http: //www.ikebox.com/

Inspired by t he PNW as a transplant\, Diane Corson’s poetry slants towards surrealism a nd the spirit of nature. She is a board member for the Oregon Poetry Assoc iation and a co-curator for Free Range Poetry. Diane has three chapbooks a nd her poetry has been in several publications.

Featured reader be gins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Bo x\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Che mawa and Cottage. http://www.ikebox.com/

V. Falcón Váz quez was born in León\, Guanajuato\, México. She emigrated to the United S tates at the age of seven. She started writing short stories at the age of twelve and discovered the love for poetry two years later. In her artisti c work\, Falcón Vázquez\, has worked in community plays such as Solo\, Una Voz (One Voice) and The Vagina Monologues in Spanish. She participates in various art projects involving radio\, television\, music and art install ations in the Mid-Willamette Valley and Portland area. She has published h er first poetry book in Spanish titled “Trazos de mí”(Traces of Me).

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. O ur hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack opt ions!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at th e intersection of Chemawa and Cottage. http://www.ikebox.com/

Hudson Schwei kert has lived in a number of places but most of his life has been rural. Schweikert went from the backwoods of the deep south to sitting on a house boat with Alan Watts. It’s been a great life but most of it was spent in f ield and forest. Schweikert has been a farmer most of his life. He doesn’t think of himself as a poet and doesn’t understand the rules of poetry. He just scribbles down some things about his life as they occur to him\, Sch weikert has always loved words.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wi de variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage . http://www.ikebox.com/

A third gener ation Van Dreal artist\, John began creative endeavors such as painting an d writing at age 7. He earned his formal education in fine art and educati onal psychology\, maintaining careers in both fields while writing in his spare time. John has been a resident of Salem for 27 years where he lives with his wife\, dog and one cats. In addition to his work as a poet and ar tist\, he is a published author in the topic of youth violence and threat assessment and currently works for Salem-Keizer School District as the Dir ector of Safety and Risk Management Services.

Featured reader begi ns at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\ , feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike B ox is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chema wa and Cottage. http://www.ikebox.com/

Ann Staley ha s published three collections of poems: Primary Sources\, 2011\, Instructi ons For The Wishing Light\, 2013 through Booktrope Press\, Seattle\, Washi ngton and Afternoon Sky\, Harney Desert\, 8th Street Press. She has been n ominated twice for Oregon Poet Laureate and once for an Oregon Book Award. She named herself the Poet Laureate of 8th Street a few years ago. Ann wi ll be reading from a new chapbook\, Age of Bronze (30+ poems and an essay) to be published in December. She hopes to have them available at her Dece mber Reading in Salem. Her favorite definition of writing: “Writing is thi nking made visible.”

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open m ic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cott age St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage. http://ww w.ikebox.com/

Downtown Bend : Writers Reading – Janice Rubin and Jack Lorts
\nSunday\, February 1 0\, 2019
\n2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
\nLocation
\nDowntown Bend Li brary
\nBrooks Room
\nDescription
\nPoets Janice Rubin and Jack Lorts read original poems.

Poets Janice Rubin and Jack Lorts read original poems.
\nAbout “Tin Coyote”: A poignant journey travers ing love\, loss\, memory and renewal\, Tin Coyote is rooted in the inner l andscape of the heart as well as the physical landscape of the poet’s belo ved Oregon. The Oregon Coast\, Warm Springs\, Siuslaw River and Lake Pauli na\, among other iconic destinations at home and abroad\, are vividly rend ered backdrops to reflections and self-explorations. ‘Light reflects\, ref racts/creating space and possibility.’ Janice Rubin is a keen observer of self and environment.

Janice D. Rubin is a counselor and educator. She received her M.S. from the University of Oregon and her B.A. in Engli sh Literature. Her poems have been published in CIRQUE: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim\, the Austin International Poetry Anthology\, R ed River Review\,Tiger’s Eye Poetry Journal\, Glass: A Journal of Poetry\, The Quizzical ChairAnthology\, It Demands a Wildness of Me (Uttered Chaos Press\, 2018) and many other journals. She was nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize in 2008. She’s the author of Transcending Damnation Creek Tr ail & Other Poems(Flutter Press\, 2010) and Tin Coyote (Blue Light Press\, 2017).

Jack Lorts\, an ex-patriot from Suburbia\, fled southern C alifornia some forty years ago to settle in rural Oregon. He has taught in small communities ever since\, retiring in 2004 as superintendent of scho ols in Fossil\, Oregon (population: 500). His poems have appeared widely\, if infrequently\, since the late 1950s in such places as Arizona Quarterl y\, English Journal\, Kansas Quarterly\, Oregon English\, Oregon East\, Fi shtrap Anthology\, Arsenic Lobster\, Quantum Tao\, etc. He has two chapboo ks out from Pudding House: The Daughter Poems & Others (2008) and The Meet ing-Place of Words (2010). In 2011\, Finishing Line Press published his De ar Gilbert Sorrentino and Other Poems.

He has also assembled sever al “serial poems\,” thematically inner-connected poems by several differen t poets\, including The Great Oregon Serial Poem (Talent House\, 2001) and The Other Side of the Hill: A Trek Through Eastern Oregon by Poet (Ice Ri ver\, 2003).

Active in Democratic state politics\, he has chaired the DPO’s Rural Caucus\, been a candidate for the Oregon House of Represen tatives\, attended the 2008 Democratic National Convention as a delegate\, and is currently Mayor of Fossil\, where he lives with Celia\, his wife o f fifty years.

Dennis Wiegal has written songs and poetry for most of his adult life. He has two publi shed books of poetry out: “Progeny” and “Life in the Trenches”. Both are a vailable through Amazon as well as from the author. He lives in Salem Oreg on with his wife of 48 years.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and t he open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage. http://www.ikebox.com/

Regional auth ors\, Roberta Feins [Seattle] and David Oates [Portland] read from their l atest publications. Feins manages the e-zine Switched-on Gutenberg from Un iversity of Washington\; while Oates has recently published Scott F. Parke r’s “A Way Home: Oregon Essays”. These books and other available for purch ase and signing.

Juan Cervante s is currently Executive Director of Espiral Publishing and a long term me mber of the Silverton Poetry Association. He is a poet and enjoys other cr eative writing. Cervantes has published a book of his own poetry\, Voces d e Libertad (Voices of Freedom).

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wi de variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the intersection of Chemawa and Cottage . http://www.ikebox.com/

Poets Michael Schein\, Joy Mc Dowell and Eric Wayne Dickey will share their work. Refre shments will be serve and poets’ books will be available for purchase.

Michael Wynn is a former logger who now practices neurology\, subspecializing in stroke and telemedicine\, in Salem. His chapbook “Bodies of Evidence” was publis hed in 2015. His poems have appeared in the Cortland Review\, JAMA\, the O regonian\, Hektoen International\, and Untitled Country Review.

Fe atured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. Our ho sts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of beverages and snack options!

The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Salem\, at the int ersection of Chemawa and Cottage. http://www.ikebox.com/

Larry Anderso n was a college professor for 40 years. Upon retirement in 2002\, he and h is wife Christine (retired mental health professional) settled in Molalla to be close to family. Ten years ago he became interested in poetry and jo ined The Friends of William Stafford\, The Molalla Writers Group and The S ilverton Poetry Association. He has taken numerous workshops\, has been tu tored by Paulann Petersen and Cindy Stewart-Renier\, published several pap ers in poetry related publications including an Anthology and his own Chap book \, Earthquakes. He has been very active in open mics including many i n Silverton. Larry was a student of William Stafford in 1961-1962\, and hi s favorite Stafford Poem is Lit Instructor\, a copy of which he kept on hi s office desk for over 20 years.

This day’s fe atured reader is YOU AND SOMEONE ELSE. Bring a poem (printed or typewritte n) to share\, there will be an extra sign-up sheet. Before the reading beg ins everyone who signed up for the poetry exchange will hand their poem to someone else on the list. Your poem will be read by that other person\, i t will give you an excellent perspective one how others read your work. Th e regular infamous open mic will directly follow.

Readings by C lem Starck\, Erik Muller\, Jenny Root\, Charles Goodrich. Music by Fisher Poets Duo and refreshments.

Alice Pettway is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger (2017)\, Moth (2019) and Station Lights (2021). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Colorado Review\, The Miami Herald\, The Progressive\, The Threepen ny Review\, and many others. Currently\, Pettway lives and writes in Shang hai.

Two poets and a flutist present an evening of words and music. Jim Merrill is an MFA gr aduate of the Kerouc School in Boulder and author of two book length colle ctions of poetry. Marc Janssen is an internationally published poet and ol dish scamp. Orion Davidson has been playing flute since middle school and currently performs at two different churches. When not performing\, Davids on enjoys hiking and photographing Oregon wilderness.

Reading & boo k launch for Wavering Reflection\, a posthumous collection of poetry by Vi rginia Corrie-Cozart. Virginia Corrie-Cozart (1932-2012)\, poet\, artist\, and musician\, grew up near Bandon\, moving to Salem in 1973. Here she ta ught music in the public schools and studied poetry with William Stafford and others. An active member of the Oregon Poetry Association\, she often won awards in its contests. In 2003 Traprock Books published her poetry co llection A Mutable Place.

Portland poet Scott Poole returns this year to host the Sandy Library Poetry Slam. Alth ough it is run as a contest\, is a remarkably supportive and casual event. If you have ever thought about sharing a poem\, this is a great place to give it a try. There will be three age categories with a $25 prize for the winner in each group and a $100 grand prize for the overall winner. All p oems must be original. Deadline for registration is April 9 to have your n ame included in the program\; walk-in registration also allowed.

Please contact Katie Murphy
\nkmurphy@ci.sandy.or.us
\n503-668-5 537
\nfor more information.

John Edge wro te in the bay area haunted City Lights Books\, and North Beach coffee hous es. After dropping out of poetry for decades\, in 2007 Edge MC’d a choral event at Chemeketa\, read some of his poetry and rediscovered the joy of i t. He said\, in the forward to his first collection of poems\, In My 60’s\ , this led to a rededication to his poetry\, as did participation in a Sta yton poetry group and “…felt like coming home.”

Celebrate Nat ional Poetry Month at this family-friendly venue with local authors
\nPenelope Scambly Schott and Dale Champlin. Enjoy selections from the pub menu.
\nBooks available for purchase and autographing..
\nCanne d goods or cash donations collected for the Oregon Food Bank.

Ben Hur Lampm an was named Oregon’s Poet Laureate in 1951\; he held that post until his death in 1954 at age 67. Lampman was one of Oregon’s most popular writers in the first half of the twentieth century as a regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post\, Sunset\, and many other popular magazines. Versat ile\, Lampman was known as a reporter\, commentator\, storyteller\, natura list\, historian\, and poet.

Ryan’s chapbo ok\, Smithereens\, was published by Imperfect Press. Some of his recent po etry has appeared or is forthcoming in Rock & Sling\; Phantom Drift\; Basa lt\; DASH Literary Journal\; and Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writin g. He has an MFA from Eastern Washington University and works at Eastern O regon University. [www.ryanscariano.com]

Kenneth O. Ha nson (1922-2002)\, an Idaho native who became part of the Theodore Roethke circle at University of Washington\, with other poets Carolyn Kizer\, Dav id Wagoner\, Richard Hugo. Hanson was in Asian studies in Seattle and with the US Army. His collections were published by University of Washington\, Wesleyan University Press\, and Breitenbush. His translations of Han Yu a ppeared in Sunflower Splendor and Growing Old Alive. He was a long-time in structor of humanities at Reed College\, Hanson became fascinated by Greec e\, its people and ancient philosophers. He retired to Athens and died the re.

Hanson’s poems will be presented by Erik Muller\, a poet for s ixty years\, most of them lived in Oregon. Muller has been engaged in loca l poetry as an editor\, publisher\, essayist and self-published poet. He h as edited Fireweed: Poetry of Western Oregon and Traprock Books. Durable G oods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets (2017) as well as And Yet\, Selected P oems 2011-2018 (2019) are from Mountains and Rivers Press. Erik is current ly an OPA Board member.

Poets Barbara Drake and Eleanor Berry and prose writer\, Mike Copperman will share thei r work. Refreshments will be served and authors’ books will be available f or purchase.

Merry Clarkst er is a fictional\, truth-telling character\, in the tradition of Raven\, Brer Rabbit\, and Alice in Wonderland. His hobbies include creating shade. He learns from worms. His poetic influences are Presbyterian hymns\, Jack Kerouac\, Red Skelton\, and Robert Frost.

The Milwaukie Poetry Series and The Poetry Box present a reading to celebrate the launc h of the 8th issue of The Poeming Pigeon: SPORTS.

Featured Readers :
\nBrittney Corrigan • Sharon Wood Wortman • Kris Demien
\nPene lope Scambly Schott • Margaret Chula • Toni Partington
\nJoshua Plack • Vivienne Popperl • Donna Prinzmetal
\nBarbara A. Meier • Hanna Jan e Weber • Joy McDowell
\nDevon Balwit • Linda Neal Reising • Shawn Av eningo Sanders

About the Book:
\nDive into this sports-themed collection and you’ll quickly become a fan\, as our poets relive their gl ory days and share their love of the game. Whether you’re a competitive at hlete\, a dedicated amateur\, or an armchair quarterback\, we invite you t o the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat—it’s all here between thes e pages. On your mark\, get set. Go!

Everyone is Invited to share in the celebration. Book will be available at the event for signing or at the bookstore on ThePoetryBox.com

Tia Borkowski moved to Salem in 2009 to be with her husband\, a local musician. She has fallen in love with the area and enjoys exploring the Valley in her free time. Borkowski’s poetry draws from her life with chronic illness\, mental illness\, and her relationships. She says poetry\, which started as a hob by\, has become her great passion.

These youth L OVE reading\, writing and performing poetry! Local poet and author Penina Ava Taesali teaches creative writing and spoken word using writing prompts \, theater exercises\, ice breakers and games for the Claggett Creek Middl e School Poetry Club based in Keizer\, Oregon. The Claggett Creek poets ex plore issues such as global warming\, the immigrant/refugee crisis\, schoo l bullying and other subjects. They strengthen their creativity through wr iting prompts\, music and theater exercises…They rock\, they move\, they h old\, they color\, they plant a world they dream to live in. Come cheer an d support middle school poets: Emily\, Abby\, Mikayla\, Ariadna\, Bear and Gilberto!

Rebecca Smole n is a writer based in Portland transplanted from New Hampshire in 2014. S he grew up on a dead-end road exploring drainage pipes and pond life. You can find her writing in the Unchaste Anthology Vol. 2 & 3\, Mutha Magazine \, VoiceCatcher and in her first collection “Womanhood and Other Scars.”\n

Enjoy pub men u or libations while two local authors present their latest books.
\n Marian Pierce\, university instructor\, reads from Finding Land: Stories o f Japan\, and Armin Tolentino\, author and non-profit board member reads s elections from We Meant to Bring It Home Alive.
\nBooks available for purchase and autographing.

Doug Stone li ves in Albany\, Oregon. He has been a social worker\, policy analyst\, an d consultant on public policy issues. He has written two poetry collectio ns\, The Season of Distress and Clarity and The Moon’s Soul Shimmering on the Water. Stone won the Oregon Poetry Association’s Fall\, 2016 Poet’s Ch oice Award for his poem Things You Know But Cannot Explain. His poems have been published in numerous journals and in the anthology\, A Ritual To Re ad Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford.

The Salem Poetry Project continues at the Ike Box\, 299 C ottage St. NE Salem. Each week will present a featured reader followed by the Infamous Open Mic: 3 poems or five minutes whichever is first. Feature d reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. For more in formation contact Marc Janssen at the Salem Poetry Project facebook page.\n

On her way to becoming an anthropologist\, philosopher or translator\, Sullivan got sid etracked into a career as a piano tuner\, and this gave her a unique body of knowledge for poetry and essays. She earned an MFA in poetry in 2008\, and since then has published three poetry collections and three collection s of essays\, the most recent The Bird That Swallowed the Music Box (Shant i Arts Press\, 2008). For more information visit her website www.anitasull ivan.org

Judith Montgo mery (just moved back to the Portland area) will read from her new books\, Litany for Wound and Bloom\, and Mercy (winner of the Wolf Ridge Narrativ e/Poetic Medicine chapbook competition)\, Ivy Ross Ricci will read from h er debut collection\, The Force of Gravity. They both look forward to mee ting old friends and new in this\, the last reading of the season at wonde rful Broadway Books.

William Haas teaches at Western Oregon University. His writing can be found in the Cima rron Review\, Dark Mountain\, River Teeth\, Fiddleblack\, and elsewhere.\n

The Salem Poetry Project continues at the Ike Box\, 299 Cottage St . NE Salem. Each week will present a featured reader followed by the Infam ous Open Mic: 3 poems or five minutes whichever is first. Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. For more information contact Marc Janssen at the Salem Poetry Project facebook page.

Sarah has a B .A. in Literary Studies from Beloit College. After taking a long pause fro m writing post-college\, she came back to it as a manager of Hillsdale Far mers Market in Portland\, Oregon\, writing a popular weekly newsletter col umn about seasonal eating and gardening. In 2014\, she was selected as one of six participants for a Hedgebrook Master Class on food writing. She ha s since published food and gardening articles in Organic Life Magazine\, B ackpacker Magazine Online\, and as a staff writer for the Nature’s Path bl og. She now writes a sporadic column on the same subjects for the Observer newspaper. When not cooking\, gardening\, writing\, or rambling in the wo ods\, she represents Art Center East through written communications and ot herwise as their Community Outreach Coordinator. Sarah will read a selecti on of prose\, poetry\, and non-fiction works-in-progress. Her writing expl ores themes of relationship\, loss\, and memory through the lenses of food and the natural world.

The Poetry Bo x is proud to present two delightful poets who have recently published new works.
\nCathy Cain’s new book\, Bee Dance\, is “Thrumming with a wi se and generous curiosity\, the poems are bright signposts pointing a way forward through a difficult age.” according to Annie Lighthart\, author of Lantern and Iron String.
\nAnd youth poet\, Piper Bringman’s first c hapbook\, Cardboard Wings\, takes us on a flight of fancy as she explores the natural world\, and shares her experience as a young curious heart nav igating these modern times.
\nPlease join us in celebrating these two poets.

The Salem Poe try Project continues at the Ike Box\, 299 Cottage St. NE Salem. Each week will present a featured reader followed by the Infamous Open Mic: 3 poems or five minutes whichever is first. Featured reader begins at 7:00 and th e open mic will directly follow. For more information contact Marc Janssen at the Salem Poetry Project facebook page.

Jean Dick has recently moved to Salem and joins the Salem Poetry Project regularly at Open Mic. Prior to Salem\, Jean was an active member of Poetics Corvallis. She currently has two books availa ble for consumption and two “Musings of a Muddled Mind” and a limerick boo k “There Once Was…” are in production.

The Salem Poe try Project continues at the Ike Box\, 299 Cottage St. NE Salem. Each week will present a featured reader followed by the Infamous Open Mic: 3 poems or five minutes whichever is first. Featured reader begins at 7:00 and th e open mic will directly follow. For more information contact Marc Janssen at the Salem Poetry Project facebook page.

Susan Morse grew up in California\, but also lived in Maine for thirty years. She earned a Masters degree in Literacy E ducation\, taught middle school Language Arts\, and attended writing confe rences at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Stonecoast Writers’ Confe rence. She moved to Salem in 2016 and is currently a member of the Oregon Poetry Association and the Mid Valley Poetry Society. Poems have appeared in various journals such as Cream City Review\, The Mom Egg\,and Willawaw Journal. Susan frequently participates in readings through Salem Poetry Pr oject. “In the Hush\,” her first chapbook\, deals with the effects of dist ance on relationships and with relatives who have succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease.

Franca Hernan dez is a photographer\, non-fiction\, fiction writer\, and poet. As a free lance journalism writer\, she published articles in Northwest Senior and B oomer News\, Oregon Coast magazine\, Women’s Journal\, Cascades Horseman\, Active Northwest\, Capital Press\, Statesman-Journal\, one piece on-line at Medicinal Food News. She completed her first novel set in 10th Century Venice and the Silk Road.

Join us for a conversation with 2013 Inaugural poet Richard Blanco! Think & Drink is an onstage conversation series with Oregon Humanities that explores provocat ive ideas and fresh perspectives.

Don’t miss th is opportunity to hear 2013 Inaugural poet Richard Blanco read his work an d discuss his ideas and perspectives! 7-9 p.m.

At 6:500\, Ju dith Montgomery will offer a one-hour workshop focusing on the challenges of writing about family\; at 7 pm she will read from and talk about her tw o new books\, “Litany for Wound and Bloom\,” and her prize-winning narrati ve medical chapbook\,Mercy.

Ryan Boyland is a writer based out of Omaha\, Nebraska. His work addresses issues of id entity\, love\, and death. And stars. Because they’re cool. His goal throu gh performance is to touch minds and hearts around the world\, and conside rs it a victory every time he is able to do so.

Poetry Slam i s a two day Poetry festival and competition. At Multnomah Country Central Library\, we are having affinity mics so that marginalized people in our c ommunity are given a platform to speak to their experiences.

Poetry Slam i s a two day Poetry festival and competition. At Multnomah County Central\, we are having affinity mics so that marginalized people in our community are given a platform to speak to their experiences.

Phil McCorkle pairs his poems with photos he has taken. Photos will be projected on a screen during the reading.
\nPhil has been a writer much of his life. Most recently published in a regular Statesman Journal column which ran f or two years\, he has also written and edited more than a dozen newsletter s\, written freelance articles for Flyfishing Magazine\, and worked for a year as the assistant outdoor sportswriter for the Statesman. Working at v arious nonprofit organizations\, he has frequently written grants and appe al letters during his 30-year fundraising career. He began writing poetry as a creative outlet\, and began pairing them with his photos. His poems a nd pictures frequently focus on the outdoors and nature and the lessons th ere that cast light on life. He lives in Salem with his wife\, Kathi\, and dog\, Mick.

Celebrate a y ear of Writing Through It and listen to poetry and prose by the writers wh o have attended the program. Writing Through It provides a space for creat ive expression for people experiencing houselessness or anyone who has exp erienced rough times.

David Axelrod’s second collection of nonfiction\ , The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence was published by Oregon Sta te University Press in the spring of 2019. His eighth collection of poems\ , The Open Hand\, appeared recently from Lost Horse Press. Axelrod wrote t he introduction\, “My Interests Are People\,” for About People: Photograph s by Gert Berliner\, which appeared in the summer of 2018 from Arts End Bo oks. Axelrod directs the low residency MFA and Wilderness\, Ecology\, and Community program at Eastern Oregon University. In addition\, he edits bas alt: a journal of fine & literary arts\, and serves on the editorial board of Lynx House Press.

The featured reader is you! This reading will be part of the Favorite Poem Project\, st arted by Robert Pinsky\, the former US poet laureate. Everyone is invited to bring your favorite poem and a story of why it is important to you. An open mic will follow.

Join us for T ea & Poetry Day! Join a free poetry playshop with Krayna Castelbaum. Celeb rate the senses with tea tastings & tea blendings thanks to Mountain Rose Herbs & Metolius Tea. Listen to the dulcet tones of Sisters Ukulele Group.

We’ll unveil the winners of our Food & Farm Haiku Contest\, judg ed by Oregon State Poet Laureate Kim Stafford (see http://tinyurl.com/food haiku to enter). Kids: join Deschutes Public Library for a special poetry booth!

If you love poetry\, bring some along to share and read al oud (keep it family-friendly\, if you would). Sisters Farmers Market is op en every Sunday through the end of September\, 11 am to 2 pm\, at Fir Stre et Park. Kids enjoy playing in the splash pad fountains!

John Miller i s founder of Portland Ars Poetica\, an ongoing literary poetry workshop. H is poetry has appeared in River Heron Review\, catheXis northwest press\, The Esthetic Apostle\, in the 9Bridges anthology Over Land and Rising\, an d in Glass Facets of Poetry. John was born and raised in Brooklyn\, New Yo rk. He has a degree in English from Amherst College.

Salem poet an d fiction writer Lois Rosen has published two poetry books\, Nice and Loud (Tebot Bach) and Pigeons (Traprock Books). A founder of Salem’s Peregrine Writers\, she leads the Trillium Writers and Willamette University’s I.C. L. Writers. Lois’ current novel-in-progress takes place in Italy\, Portlan d\, and Mint\, Oregon.

This is a new open mic intended to bring together writers at different stages in their process. 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7:30 at the Rose City Book Pub.

Norm Baxter h as been a restaurant worker\, janitor\, printer\, carpenter\, educator\, w riter\, and farmer. He believes in always doing the right thing\, which gr atifies some people and astonishes the rest. Frequently a victim of his ow n enthusiasm\, he is delighted and amazed that his life has gone so well.\n

Indigenous Pe ople’s Day ~ Honoring Women’s Voices
\nNative Nations poets Laura Da’ \, Ruby Hansen Murray\, Leah Altman\, Alise Sanchez and a youth poet
\nOctober 14\, 2019 from 4pm to 6pm
\nOld Liberty Theater\, 115 N Mai n Avenue\, Ridgefield\, WA 98642
\nFree

The pu blic is invited to join us at the Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield\, Wash ington to celebrate our First Nations People through poetry\, prose and mu sic. As a community we will gather to honor the Indigenous People on whose traditional and ancestral land we sit and in acknowledgment that many Ind igenous Nations of the Columbia River have connections to this place and t heir descendants live on. Our honored guests will include Tanna Engdahl\, Spiritual Leader of the Cowlitz Tribe. She will offer a blessing for the g athering\, which will honor Indigenous Women.

Native Nations wom en poets Laura Da’\, Ruby Hansen Murray\, Leah Altman\, Alise Sanchez and a youth poet will read their work. Traveling Day Society\, an inter-tribal and multi-cultural blend of musicians utilizing the voices of the Drum an d the Native American Flute will join community members to drum at the eve nt. This celebration is free and open to the public of all ages.

A poet and a public-school teacher\, Laura Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Sh e is the author of the collections Instruments of the True Measure (Univer sity of Arizona Press\, 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Washington Book Award a nd Tributaries (University of Arizona Press\, 2015)\, winner of the 2016 A merican Book Award as well as the chapbook The Tecumseh Motel. Her work ha s appeared in the anthologies New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press\ , 2018) and Effigies II (Salt Publishing\, 2014). A member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe\, she received a Native American Arts and Cultures Fellowshi p in Literature. Da’ has also been a Made at Hugo House fellow and a Jack Straw fellow. She lives near Seattle\, Washington\, with her family.

Ruby Hansen Murray is a citizen of the Osage Nation\, who lives downriv er on Puget Island. She’s an award-winning columnist for the Osage News\, and has offered writing workshops at the Port Townsend Writers Conference\ , Mt. Edgecumbe Boarding School in Sitka\, Alaska and the American Indian Center in Chicago. She writes about the idiosyncrasies of Osage family lif e and confronts stereotypes that render Natives invisible. Her work appear s in Exquisite Vessel: Shapes of Native Nonfiction by Elissa Washuta & Ter ese Warburton (2019)\, and World Literature Today\, CutBank and The Rumpus . She received an MFA from The Institute of American Indian Arts.

Leah Altman (Oglala Lakota/Persian) is a Native writer and poet from the Portland area. She has been writing and performing poetry since she was 8 years old. Leah was most recently published in an anthology of local Portl and writers entitled Where the Roses Grow Best\, and she has performed mos t recently on KBOO with local Native writers Trevino Brings Plenty and Eva Joy. Leah has two daughters\, and her poetry addresses family\, love\, id entity\, and her experience as a Native American adoptee and second-genera tion immigrant. She currently works at the Native Arts & Cultures Foundati on and is a board member of Advancing Gender Equity in the Arts.

A lise Sanchez is a member of the Little Shell Band of Ojibwe\, raised on th e cold\, clear nights of western Montana\, and transplanted to the Pacific NW to flourish. She is a community-centered social services provider\, cu rrently serving as the director of the Multnomah County Domestic and Sexua l Violence Coordination Office. She makes her home in queer and indigenou s community\, is a proud parent to two children\, and is finally starting to self-identify as a writer.

Jessica Mehta and Gary Lark will read selections of their new works published by Airlie Press.

This series b rings award-winning Oregon writers to the center to read\, followed by a d iscussion and open mic. Margaret Chula will offer a free haiku workshop fr om 6:00\, followed by a reading.

Margaret Chula has published ten collections of poetry including\, most recently\, Shadow Man. Her haiku co llection\, Grinding my ink\, received the Haiku Society of America Book Aw ard. Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Cult ure Council have supported her work as well as fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center\, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation\, and Playa at Summer Lake . and She has been a featured speaker and workshop leader at writers’ conf erences throughout the United States\, as well as in Poland\, Canada\, Per u\, and Japan. Maggie has also served as president of the Tanka Society of America and as Poet Laureate for Friends of Chamber Music. Living in Kyot o for twelve years\, she now makes her home in Portland\, Oregon\, where s he hikes\, swims\, and enjoys wildlife in her back yard.

Portland auth or Floyd Skloot joins us at 7 pm on Thursday\, October 17th to read from h is new collection of poems\, Far West\, published by Louisiana State Unive rsity Press.

Skloot’s Far West intertwines the past and present\, as time alternates between racing and standing still. Crafting poems that confront memory lapses and painful recollections\, Skloot traces his mome nts of purest perception and expression: his wife practicing music\, his d aughter finding delight in the presence of wildlife\, Vladimir Nabokov abl e to lose himself when playing goalie in a soccer match. A poem about a fo rgotten word or name can lead to one about a song that refuses to stop pla ying over and over in our minds\, or to an evocation of a long-dead futuri stic novelist who comes back from the afterlife to find a world even stran ger than any he imagined. In poems that range from traditional forms and s hort lyrics to longer narratives and free verse\, Skloot explores how emot ional experiences—memory and forgetting\, love and loss\, reverie and urge nt attention—all come together in our search for coherence and authentic s elf-expression.

Floyd Skloot is a poet\, creative nonfiction write r\, and novelist whose work has won three Pushcart Prizes\, a PEN USA Lite rary Award\, two Pacific NW Book Awards\, and two Oregon Book Awards. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, Harper’s Magazine\, Poetry\, Georgia Review\, Hudson Review\, and many of the leading journals in this country as well as overseas. He has contributed book reviews to The New Y ork Times Book Review\, Boston Globe\, Harvard Review\, Sewanee Review\, a nd other publications.

Colette Tenna nt just completed a book titled Religion in The Handmaid’s Tale: a Brief G uide\, forthcoming in September 2019. Billy Collins recently awarded her p oem 3rd place in the 2019 Fish Publishing Contest in Ireland. She has two books of poetry: Commotion of Wings (2010) and Eden and After (2015). Her poems have been published in many journals\, including Prairie Schooner\, Rattle\, Southern Poetry Review\, and others. She has been an English prof essor for 24 years\, including teaching creative writing. She enjoys inspi ring people to write poems.

Tom Hogan’s n ew book\, Giving Thanks: New and Selected Poems was published by Dancing M oon Press in 2018. He is the author of five chapbooks and The Promise of t he Trail (also by Dancing Moon Press\, 2014). He directs the Milwaukie Poe try Series\, currently in its 13th Season and lives with his wife Jane in Milwaukie\, Oregon.

Susan Morse m oved to the Willamette Valley in 2016 and is currently a member of the Ore gon Poetry Association\, as well as Mid Valley Poetry Society. She also f requently participates in readings at the Salem Poetry Project. In the H ush is her first chapbook\, but individual poems have appeared in various journals such as Cream City Review\, The Mom Egg\, The Aurorean\, Sixfold\ , and most recently The Willawaw Journal.

Susan’s featured readin g of poems from her chapbook In the Hush begins at 7:00 p.m. at the Salem Book Bin\, 450 Court Street NE\, Salem (503-361-1235) and will be followe d by an Open Mic.

Head for the Hills is an Open Mic Event. Wednesday\, October 30. 6pm-7:45 pm. Read 3 po ems or read for 5 minutes. Light refreshments. Sign up sheet available at 5:45. Late comers welcome.

C. Steven Blu e is a Poet/Publisher/Producer/Performer\, his poetry stands outside the n ormal conventions of modern poetry\, at the crossroads of poetry and music \; produces and hosts BURNIN’ DOWN THE BARNES\, a monthly literary series at Eugene Barnes & Noble\; has seven published books\; has been published and interviewed widely in the literary world. More on his website: www.wor dsongs.com.

Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will d irectly follow. Our hosts\, the Ike Box\, feature a wide variety of bevera ges and snack options! The Ike Box is located at 229 Cottage St NE in Sale m\, at the intersection of Chemeketa and Cottage. http://www.ikebox.com/\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-47852@oregonpoets.org DTSTAMP:20210421T105547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Readings CONTACT:Melody Wilson\; 5039398527\; Melodywilson@comcast.net DESCRIPTION:Open Mic bringing student writers together with community write rs. Poetry\, fiction and other genres. Sign ups begin at 7:00. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T193000 LOCATION:Rose City Book Pub @ 1329 NE Fremont Street Portland Oregon 97212 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cascade/Community Open Mic URL:https://oregonpoets.org/event/cascade-community-open-mic-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Open Mic brin ging student writers together with community writers. Poetry\, fiction and other genres. Sign ups begin at 7:00.

Michael Dickman is a Portland poet\, but we in Portland see far too little of him. And our chances to hear him read his work are rare.

Michael will be reading from his newest full-length collection\, Days & Days\, pu blished by Knopf\, a book of—as Marie Howe has said—“spare\, clear\, untra nslatable poems—spoken as if out of the original silence.”

I’ll be reading from my latest book\, One Small Sun\, from Salmon Poetry of Irela nd\, described by Booklist as “a veritable master class in the interweavin g of metaphor and memory.”

H is work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The American Poetry Revi ew\, Field\, and Tin House. He currently teaches at Princeton University\, where he’s a Lecturer in Creative Writing. He was the subject (with his t win brother\, the poet Matthew Dickman) of a New Yorker profile written by Rebecca Mead. He and Matthew had roles as the pre-cog twins in Steven Spi elberg’s film “Minority Report.” (What other world-class poets do we know who’ve been in a Steven Spielberg movie?)

The poems in Melanie Green’s A Long\, Wide Stretch of Calm (The Poetry Box) are an invitation t o slow down\, to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Green ’s poetry explores the connection with the numinous—as well as speaking to the difficulty of living with a chronic illness.

In Shadow Man (T he Poetry Box)\, Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957\, the day her mother packed their five children—al l under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years\, Marga ret comes to accept the differences between a mother who wants China cups with saucers and a father who’s content with a Budweiser. Through writing about these awkward\, often heartbreaking\, interactions with her estrange d father\, she discovers that there’s more than one truth and that each of us must find our own.

From the universal to the personal\, the fo rmal to the experimental\, Carolyn Martin’s fourth poetry collection\, A P enchant for Masquerades (Unsolicited Press)\, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth\, time\, identity\, history\, death\, and relations hips. A lover of all things poetic\, Martin has created an eclectic collec tion for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believi ng in everything and nothing.

At an early a ge Jamye discovered her creative side with the help of role models and tea chers. Jamye states art is a way to communicate more succinctly and emotiv ely with others. She was raised in Oregon\; she now works and lives in the Willamette Valley.

Author Diane Forsberg\, poet Steve Slemenda\, and digital artist Joel Zak present Never Solitary-Forward\, a collection of prayers\, poems and images. The public ation is the third of a series that joins texts with images in a thought p rovoking and appealing blend of complimentary expressions. The book’s cont ent will be projected as Forsberg\, Slemenda and Zak present their contrib utions and discuss the rich process through which the book was realized.\n

John Sibley W illiams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize )\, Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize)\, and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize ). A twenty-time Pushcart nominee and winner of various awards\, John serv es as editor of The Inflectionist Review\, teaches for Literary Arts\, and is a poetry agent.

Australian bo rn Jade Rosina McCutcheon holds a Doctor of Creative Arts from the Univers ity of Technology\, Sydney and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She graduated from N.I.D.A. Sydney as a theatre director and has worked as a professional director in Australia and the United States as well as in many Universities. Her publications include books\, Awakenin g the Performing Body\, Embodied Consciousness Performance Technologies\, Narrative in Performance\, chapters in edited\, peer reviewed volumes and poetry in Australian magazines. She was awarded a Kay Snow Poetry Prize (O regon) this year for her poem ‘Fair Art’ and her first chapbook “The River Speaks” will be published by Finishing Line Press later this year. She al so had three poems published in Terra Incognita (Bob Hill publishing 2019) .

You are the f eatured reader! Bring your favorite poem about Christmas\, Hanukah\, Thank sgiving…Festivus and maybe a little story about it. The infamous open mike will follow.

Terra Incogni ta is the second anthology from Bob Hill Publishing\, LLC\, and like Momen ts Before Midnight\, released in 2018\, the subtitle is Oregon Poets Write for Ecological\, Social\, Political and Economic Justice. Reading their p oems from the book will be: Carol Hottle\, Penina Ava Taesali\, Paul Suter \, Elizabeth Keyser\, Ariel\, Amalie Rush Hill and Marc Janssen.

Annie Bloom’s welcomes Portland poet Shawn Aveningo Sanders to read from What She Was W earing.

How long can you keep a dark secret before you become comp letely unraveled? In What She Was Wearing\, Sanders uses poetry\, prose\, and letters to tell her #MeToo story—one that has taken over 30 years to r eveal.
\nInspired by the countless number of women who are bravely op ening up to share their truth\, she adds her voice to the fight against th e oppressive\, misogynic times we live in. It’s time to stop blaming the v ictim and to stop asking what she was wearing! For Shawn\, writing throug h the pain and sharing these poems has proven to be cathartic and even epi phanic at times. It is her hope this work can help women of all ages face and cope with their own traumas\, while letting them know they can indeed heal and go on to enjoy loving\, trusting relationships.

Bruce Parker holds a BA in History from the University of Maryland Far East Division\, Okinawa\, Japan\, and an MA in Secondary Education from the University of New Mexico. He has taught English as a second language\, worked as a tech nical editor\, and as a translator. He reads for Boulevard\, lives in Por tland\, Oregon\, and is President of the Oregon Poetry Association. His w ork has appeared in CIRQUE\, The Inflectionist Review\, Alembic\, Cloudban k\, Floyd County Moonshine\, and elsewhere.

Nitza M. Hern ández López has been living in Oregon since 2012\, when she retired as a p rofessor from the University of Puerto Rico. She earned a doctorate in Com munication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nitza is involve d with photography\, mixed media\, acrylic painting\, poetry\, meditation and yoga. She occasionally does voluntary work at Capital Community Televi sion. Some of her artwork has been shown at exhibits and art galleries in Salem and Independence\, Oregon. “My poetry\, as well as my artwork\, refl ect my social concerns\, my latino and multicultural identity\, and the co nnection I feel with Puerto Rico\, as well as my ancestors and my cosmic o rigin.”

Paulann Peter sen reads. Attendees are invited to read a favorite poem by William Staffo rd.

Caroline Holm is a writer\, artist and Oregon-transplant. Her work is centered on heali ng the heart and body with nature and gently guiding others to live in awe of and in tune with the earth in order that they may heal too. She’ll be reading poems from her upcoming book\, Woodland.

Michael Schei n wrote Liquid Perishable Hazardous (poetry – 2019)\, John Surratt: The Li ncoln Assassin Who Got Away (history – 2015)\, and novels The Killer Poet’ s Guide to Immortality by AB Bard (2012)\, Bones Beneath Our Feet (2011) a nd Just Deceits (2005). He edited Poets UNiTE! (2016)\, and founded LiTFUS E Poets’ Workshop. His poetry has been stuck to refrigerators.

Nicole Taylor lives in the Eugene\, Oregon area. She has been an artist\, a hiker\, a p oetry note taker\, a sketcher\, a volunteer and a dancer\, formerly in Sal em’s DanceAbility. You can read more of her poetry at oregonpoeticvoices. org/poet/312/.

Lynn Otto is the author of Real Daughter\, winner of the 2017 Unicorn Press First Book Award. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University . Her work has also been published in Iron Horse Literary Review\, Raleigh Review\, Sequestrum\, and other journals (see lynnottoinfo.wordpress.com) .

Efraín Díaz-H orna was born in Talara\, Peru\, studied at Mt. Angel College in Oregon\, and the University of Wisconsin. For 25 years\, Efraín was employed for t he State of Oregon and Multnomah County. He has been drawing\, painting\, and writing since he was a child. He has exhibited his art in Oregon\, Mex ico\, Russia\, and Peru. You can find his poetry in Expreso\, The Oregonia n\, The Hispanic News\, The National Catholic Reporter\, and several newsl etters. He is the author of the six poetry books and a translation of Kim Stafford’s poetry Cuando llegues al fondo\, cava más abajo (2019).

20th Annual S ilverton Poetry Festival hosts readings by Penelope Schott and Emmett Whea tfield. Refreshments served.

The Milwaukie Poetry Series and The Poetry Box present a reading to celebrate the launch of the 9th issue of The Poeming Pigeon: CO SMOS.

Featured Readers:
\nPattie Palmer-Baker • Trina Gaynon • Colette Tennant • Liz Nakazawa • Casey Bush • Dale Champlin • Melody Lem ing-Wilson • Douglas Spangle • Marilyn Johnston • Brittney Corrigan • Judi th Arcana • Joann Renee Boswell • Brad G. Garber • Jessica Parker • Devon Balwit • Linda Ferguson • Delia Garigan • Rebecca Smolen • Doug Stone • Li nda (LAW) Fraser • Deborah Bachels Schmidt • Shawn Aveningo Sanders

Poets Lex Run ciman and Jessica Mehta read and discuss their work and their lives poetic .

20th Annual S ilverton Poetry Festival Presents Readings from Abbey Abbot Fr. Jeremy Dri scoll\, Floyd Skloot\, and Marilyn Johnston. This special commemorative ev ent celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Arvo Aalto Abbey Library coinci ding with the Silverton Poetry Festival 20th Anniversary event at the Abbe y. A feast of food and drink follows the readings.

Poets from Co rban University will be reading their work from the Fusion Art Show which features student poems\, paintings\, and photographs. The art show will be displayed in Corban’s Psalm Center Gallery from late January through Febr uary. The poets\, painters\, and photographers will give a reading Thursda y\, February 13th\, at 7 pm in the Psalm Center on Corban’s campus. Commun ity members are very welcome. It is free and open to the public.

Paul Suter’s roots are in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned an MA in English at UC Berkeley\, 1970\, and completed a Fellowship preparing community college E nglish instructors at the University of Nebraska\, 1971. He taught composi tion\, American literature and environmental literature at Chemeketa CC. T oday he copy-edits Oregon PeaceWorks\, enjoys the arts\, values political activism\, and composes poems. His poem\, “Invitations\,” will appear in t he spring 2020 edition of Willawaw Journal. In 2018\, “Cathedral” was publ ished in Moments Before Midnight\, and in 2019\, “The Mountains Do Not Hoa rd Their Visions” was published in Terra Incognita. He lives in Salem\, wh ere he is a member of the Trillium and Peregrines writing groups.

Armin Tolenti no is the author of the poetry collection We Meant to Bring It Home Alive (Alternating Current Press 2019). He earned an MFA at Rutgers University-N ewark and his poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Common Kn owledge\, Arsenic Lobster\, Hyphen Magazine\, and The Raven Chronicles. H e is a phenomenal clapper\, a passable ukulele player\, and a bumbling\, b ut enthusiastic\, fisherman. More info at www.armintolentino.com.

German Rizo\, poet and Mexican narrator. He has published: Songs of the soul and life ( 2014)\, Under the shadow of the heart (2016)\, Attract me with you (2017)\ , participated in the anthology: Opposite equilibria\, tribute to Federico García Lorca (2015). He has two other books of poetry entitled: The words burn and Footprints burn after the rain.

A poignant po rtrayal of love and forgiveness—
\nIn Shadow Man\, Margaret Chula bri ngs her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957\, the day h er mother packed their five children—all under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years\, Margaret comes to accept the differences between a mother who wants China cups with saucers and a father who’s con tent with a Budweiser. Through writing about these awkward\, often heartbr eaking\, interactions with her estranged father\, she discovers that there ’s more than one truth and that each of us must find our own.

The #metoo story that took over 30 years to reveal—
\nInspired by the cou ntless number of women who are bravely opening up to share their truth\, S hawn adds her voice to the fight against the oppressive\, misogynic times we live in. It’s time to stop blaming the victim and to stop asking what s he was wearing! For Shawn\, writing through the pain and sharing these po ems has proven to be cathartic and even epiphanic at times. It is her hope this work can help women of all ages face and cope with their own traumas \, while letting them know they can indeed heal and go on to enjoy loving\ , trusting relationships.

Margaret Chul a has been writing\, teaching\, and publishing poetry for over forty years . Her recent books include: Shadow Man\, Daffodils at Twilight\, and One L eaf Detaches. Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Culture Council have supported her work\, as well as fellowships to t he Vermont Studio Center\, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation\, and Playa at Summer Lake. Maggie has been a featured speaker and workshop leader at con ferences throughout the United States\, as well as in Poland\, Canada\, Pe ru\, and Japan. She has also served as president of the Tanka Society of A merica and as Poet Laureate for Friends of Chamber Music. Living in Kyoto for twelve years\, she now makes her home in Portland\, Oregon\, where she hikes\, swims\, and creates flower arrangements for every room of the hou se.

Shawn Aveningo Sanders grew up in Missouri and after a bit of globetrotting finally landed in Portland\, Oregon\, where she miraculously overcame her fear of birds upon meeting two baby juncos in her backyard. Shawn’s work has appeared worldwide in over 140 literary journals and anth ologies\, including Calyx\, Amsterdam Quarterly\, American Journal of Poet ry\, and Poets Reading the News. Her most recent chapbook\, What She is We aring\, was released in 2019. She’s a Pushcart nominee\, Best of the Net n ominee and managing editor for The Poeming Pigeon. She was voted Best Fema le Poet-Performer in Sacramento News & Review (2009) and was winner of the first poetry slam in Placerville\, California (2012). Shawn is a proud mo ther of three amazing adults\, and she shares the creative life with her h usband.

The Sandy Lib rary Poetry Slam will be held on April 3rd\, 2020 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Refreshments provided. Friends and family are encouraged to attend to sup port the poets. ONLY ONE POEM can be entered into the contest\; there will be time to share additional poems later in the evening.

Please fi ll out the Entry Form at https://www.ci.sandy.or.us/library-programs by Tuesday\, March 31 st. If you don’t register\, you can still participate but your name will n ot appear in the program.

Basic Rules:
\n• Poets and performer s\, ages 8 and up\, are welcome to work in groups or individually.
\n • Poems must be appropriate for an all-ages audience.
\n• It is best if the poems are memorized\, but not essential.
\n• Each presentation mu st be limited to 3 minutes.
\n• A panel of judges will choose the winn ers\; contestants will be judged on creativity and presentation.
\n• P articipants must write the poems they present.
\n• The contestant must be present to win.
\nThe winner in each category will receive $25\; the Grand Prize winner will receive $100 cash.

In celebratio n of National Poetry Month and International Haiku Poetry Day on April 17\ , Friends of the Columbia Gorge is launching a Spring Gorge Haiku Challen ge. While we all refrain from connecting to the Gorge physically\, for the greater good\, we can still stay connected virtually and celebrate the Go rge’s wonders from home by writing three simple but meaningful lines of ve rse.

Sunday\, Apri l 26\, 2020 River Road Reading Series (RRRS) last Sunday Reading (LIVE ON ZOOM) from 4:30 to 6:00pm. Readers will be Leisha Wharfed\, Patti Sirens a nd Lynn Otto. The link will be available on our River Road Reading Series (RRRS)Facebook page on the Lane Literary Guild site and on our website a few days before the reading.

The Montreal International Poetry Prize\, initially founded with assistance from Leonar d Cohen\, awards $20\,000 CAD to the writer of a single poem. Click here to learn more about the Montreal Prize and its new ways of thinking about the arts in a time of global crisis.

The Poetry Bo x LIVE – October Edition
\nTime: Oct 10\, 2020 at 4pm (Pacific) / 7pm (Eastern)

The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading se ries on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Shawn Aveningo Sanders is the host /emcee with 3 Featured Poet/Authors each show.

October Featured Po ets:
\n• Christopher Bogart\, author of BREAKPOINT and THE EATER OF D REAMS (New Jersey)
\n• Kaja Weeks\, author of MOUTH QUILL (Maryland) \n• Wendy Colby\, reading on behalf of Joan Colby author of THE KINGD OM OF BIRDS (Illinois)

C hristopher Bogart is a retired educator and a working poet and writer with an MA in Creative Writing from Monmouth University. His poetry has been p ublished in Voices Rising from the Grove\, Spindrift\, WestWard Quarterly\ , Saggio Poetry Journal\, The Howl of Sorrow and others. His chapbook 14: Antología del Sonoran\, was awarded 3rd place in The Poetry Box Chapbook P rize in 2018. He is presently working on his first novel\, tentatively tit led The Beast\, about the plight of two Honduran teenage migrants who flee poverty and crime of Central America in search of a better life in the Un ited States of America.

Kaja Weeks is a poet\, essayist and classi cally trained singer whose writing contemplates music and healing as well as identity through multiple generations. She is the American born daughte r of World War Two refugees from Estonia. Moved by the pain and beauty of its history\, she also loves the alliterative sounds\, mythic lore and wor ld views in that ancient Finno-Ugric culture. Many of these motifs\, found in thousands of runic verses and long preserved by oral transmission\, co me alive in Kaja’s creative work. Nick-named a “little songbird” when she was five\, she is a clinic-based music educator in Maryland who engages yo ung children with autism to their earliest communications with playful sin ging. Kaja’s writing has appeared in The Sugar House Review\; Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine\, Under the Gum Tree\, The Potomac Review\, and else where.

Joan Colby\, was a masterful poet and avid bird lover\, who suddenly learned she had stage 4 lung cancer and passed away in August 20 20. Her daughter Wendy Colby will be reading from Joan’s latest book\, The Kingdom of Birds\, which was released by The Poetry Box in September. Jo an Colby had published widely in journals such as Poetry\, Atlanta Review\ , South Dakota Review\, Spillway and others. Awards include two Illinois A rts Council Literary Awards and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Lit erature. She has published 22 books including Selected Poems which receive d the 2013 FutureCycle Book Prize and Ribcage which was awarded the 2015 K ithara Book Prize. Joan was a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and an as sociate editor of Good Works Review. Joan’s daughter\, Wendy Colby\, will be reading from the collection to celebrate her mother’s poetry in The Kin dgom of Bird\, her last book.

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On Saturday\, November 28th\, at 5pm Pacific\, please join poets Lydia K. Valentine (Br ief Black Candles)\, Zack Dye (21st Century American Verses)\, and Benjami n Gorman (When She Leaves Me)\, and poets who generously share a poem of t heir own in the open mic portion of the show. Poets\, we’ll sign up via th e chat at the beginning of the even\, so don’t be late!). In this challeng ing time in our country and our world\, calls for gratitude can feel force d\, even toxic\, but one thing we can all appreciate is the gift of poetry as a vehicle to process all the challenges and blessings of our multiface ted human experience. Registration is free. We’ll email you a link to the Zoom meeting before the event!

A virtual Zoo m reading sponsored by the Jacksonville Library featuring southern Oregon OPA poets Charlotte Abernathy\, Sallie Ehrman\, Dan Kaufman\, Kathleen Pyl e and Laurel WInter. Poets will explore kaleidoscopic views of isolation a nd community\, comforts of the familiar and of nature and living with mask s on in a time of great uncertainty.

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First Draft W riters’ Series presents author readings every third Thursday. Jan 21\, 21 join us online for Don Colburn. Request Zoom link at director@pendletonart s.org

Don Colburn came to poetry late and unexpectedly in the mids t of a journalism career. A longtime reporter for The Washington Post and The Oregonian\, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writin g. He has published five collections of poems\, including four chapbooks\; all five won or placed in national manuscript competitions. Colburn’s poe ms have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. His latest c ollection\, Mortality\, with Pronoun Shifts\, won the 2018 Cathy Smith Bow ers poetry award. His previous chapbook\, Tomorrow Too: The Brenda Monolog ues\, is a sequence of poetic monologues based on the true story of a youn g woman facing breast cancer while pregnant — a story he first reported in The Oregonian. His full-length book\, As If Gravity Were a Theory\, won t he Cider Press Book Award. Other writing honors include the Discovery/The Nation Award\, the Finishing Line Press Poetry Prize\, residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, and five Pushcart nominations. He lives in Po rtland.

Megan is a poet and journalist whose 2 020 poetry collection\, The Animal at Your Side\, won The Airlie Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Copper Nickel\, Crab Orchard Review\, Quarterly West\, Cincinnati Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and many others. As a journalist\, she has reported for The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, The Guardian\, and Forei gn Policy.

“The Animal at Your Side spans worlds – Eastern Europe\ , China\, Ecuador\, folktale\, and myth – all of these worlds equally sini ster and haunting. In poems where we feel “the whirr-click of war beginnin g . . .” the poet learns that the best way to survive is to become “the sa me color as rocks\, water\, / anything I walked past\, / see-through.” Thi s is Megan Alpert’s gift to us – radical empathy – so we can shape-shift t hrough these worlds as she has. This is a collection I’ll read time and ag ain\, and I know I will grow with each reading.” – Shaindel Beers\, autho r of Secure Your Own Mask

The event will conclude with a community open mic. The moderator will take sign-ups beginning at 6:45 PM on a firs t-come basis (limit 10 readers each with a 5-minute reading limit).

This is a Zoo m-based event. Request a link by emailing director@pendletonarts.org. Visi t https://pendletonarts.org/first-draft/ for more information and to see t he 100+ notable authors who’ve been part of the series.

The Poetry Bo x LIVE – February Edition
\nTime: Rescheduled for Feb 20\, 2021 at 4p m (Pacific) / 7pm (Eastern)

The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading series on the 2nd Saturday of each month\, and hosted by Sh awn Aveningo Sanders.

February Featured Poets:
\n• Carolyn Ma rtin (Oregon)\, author of NOTHING MORE TO LOSE
\n• Deborah Meltvedt ( California) author of BUILDING A WOMAN

——- ABOUT THE FEATURED POET S ———-
\nFrom associate professor of English to management trainer to retiree\, Carolyn Martin is a lover of gardening and snorkeling\, feral c ats and backyard birds\, writing and photography. After years of producing academic papers and business books\, she discovered that poetry is the wa y her heart and mind interact with the world —in images\, rhythms\, sounds \, and intensities of language. So\, she has settled into the joyful chall enge of translating experience into as few words as possible.
\nMarti n’s aesthetic is embodied in Jack Kerouac’s comment in Dharma Bums: “One d ay I will find the right words\, and they will be simple\,” and in Sting’s statement\, “All my life I have tried to find the truth and make it beaut iful.” Her poems attempt to use simple words to embrace truths wherever sh e finds them\, and to turn them into something approximating the beautiful .
\nHer poems have appeared in journals throughout North America\, Au stralia\, and the UK\, and her fifth poetry collection\, The Catalog of Sm all Contentments\, will be released by The Poetry Box® in 2021. She is the book review editor for the Oregon Poetry Association and the poetry edito r of Kosmos Quarterly: journal for global transformation.

Order Ca rolyn’s new book HERE: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/nothing-more-to- lose

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\nDeborah Meltvedt is a high school teacher who lov es to blend medical science and art in both the classroom and in her own w riting. Deborah grew up in the suburbs and fields of the San Joaquin Valle y whose landscapes and culture form a backbone to her poetry. As a doctor’ s daughter and feminist\, she feels strongly about women’s health and repr oductive rights and respecting the traditional and non-traditional paths w omen take in their lives.
\nHer poems and stories have been published in the American River Literary Review\, Susurrus\, Under the Gum Tree\, T ule Review\, The Poeming Pigeon\, and the Creative Non-Fiction Anthology W hat I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher.
\nDeborah live s in Sacramento with her funny and supportive husband\, Rick Kushman\, and their cat\, Anchovy Jack\, who in his former life used to be a pirate.
\nOrder Deborah’s new book HERE: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/bui lding-a-woman

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The Poetry Bo x LIVE – March Edition
\nTime: Mar 13\, 2021 at 4pm (Pacific) / 7pm ( Eastern)

The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading seri es on the 2nd Saturday of each month and hosted by Shawn Aveningo Sanders.

March Featured Poets:
\n• Barbara A. Meier (Colorado)\, auth or of SYLVAN GROVE
\n• Mark Thalman (Oregon)\, author of STRONGER THA N THE CURRENT
\n• Doreen Stock (California) author of BYE BYE BLACKBI RD

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Tuesday\, March 23 Reading
\nJennifer Dorner (2 winning poems) Spring Poet’s Choice\, First Place for “Maps”
\nSpring Members Only\, First Place for ”Lake Ridge Drive”
\nDeborah Akers Spring Poet’s Choice\, Second Place for “Pa ssing”
\nSallie Ehrman Spring Members Only\, Third Place for “Roadt rip\, Interstate 65”
\nLinda Golaszewski Spring New Poets\, Third Place for “All Eyes”
\nDelia Garigan Spring Traditional Form/Ghaza l\, Second Place for “For a Distant Friend”
\nAmelia Diaz Ettinger Spring Traditional Form/Ghazal\, Third Place for “Hiraeth from an OregonB each to a lost island”
\nDanielle Stricklin Fall Poet’s Choice\, F irst Place for “Tiny Blue Flowers”
\nCynthia Jacobi Fall Poet’s Ch oice\, Third Place for “My Selfie Poem”
\nJames R. Merrill Fall New Poets\, Second Place for\, “They Try to Remind Us”
\nDiana Morley Fall Traditional Form/Blank Verse\, First Place for “Gifted”

Thur sday\, March 25 Reading
\nMeli Broderick Eaton Spring New Poets\, F irst place for “Falling Stars”
\nMichael G. Smith Spring Theme/Clim ate\, Second Place for “The Anthropocene”
\nDavid Hedges Fall Membe rs Only\, First Place for “You Can Never Replace a Dog You Love”
\nAm y Baskin Fall Members Only\, Second Place for ”To the Moon for After The Blood Red Moon”
\nNancy Christopherson Fall Members Only\, Third P lace for “Here a Small Rain”
\nQuinn Miller Fall New Poets\, First Place for “Mercy”
\nCarolyn Martin Fall Traditional Form/Blank Vers e\, Second Place for “The Prince: First Anniversary”
\nSusan Morse Fall Traditional Form/Blank Verse\, Third Place for “Elegy for Hands”
\nSuzy Harris Fall Theme/Our Common Life\, Second Place for “Abatemen t”
\nStephanie Striffler Fall Theme/Our Common Life\, Third Place f or “Debris”
\nShari Crane Fox Spring Theme/Climate\, First Place\, “Loaded Trunk Falling Down a Flight of Stairs Like Choir Birds”

Ann Staley\, born in Harrisburg\, PA\, has lived in Oregon for the last forty years: As hland\, Gold Beach\, Cave Junction\, Corvallis\, Portland\, Corvallis. Ann taught Creative Writing in six counties in Oregon. She has mentored and s upervised student teachers in two junior colleges\, three universities\, a nd taught creative writing workshops all over Oregon. Ann’s first three fu ll-length books include: Primary Sources\, Instructions For The Wishing Li ght\, and Afternoon Sky Harney Desert. Two shorter books include\, Age Of Bronze\, Fire In The Desert. Her recent collections include: Small Beautie s\, a chapbook\, 2021 and The Spirit That Moves In All Things\, her fourth full-length book\, April 2021. Ann has been nominated twice for Oregon Po et Laureate\, once for an Oregon Book Award. Honors\, indeed\, but she kno ws she’s really The Poet Laureate of 8th Street.

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During the pa ndemic we have all had ample time to write. In response to these unprecede nted times the Oregon Poetry Association published this Pandemic 2020 Anth ology. All the poems are by OPA members. We are happy to present this stun ning artistic and historic document. While the pandemic raged\, nature thr ived. Spring burst into summer and wild animals roamed our backyards. We p oets weeded our gardens\, baked\, tended our children\, and wrote poetry. We observed our neighbors from afar\, adjusting to the new social norms\, not touching\, and drawing cautious breaths behind our masks. We were lone ly and fearful\, furious with the slow lack of government response\, thoug h few of us reflected our frustration in our poetry. A few months ago\, wi ldfires swept through Oregon\, burning some of our homes as well as entire communities. A pall of thick smoke blanketed our state\, making it even m ore difficult to breathe. At the time of this publication\, four hundred t housand Americans have lost their lives due to contagion. Poets in this an thology lost loved ones and wrote of their grief. We have suffered through a tumultuous political upheaval and yet we continue to write poetry.

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\n T he Milwaukie Poetry Series Committee and the Ledding Library of Milwauki e
\nare delighted to continue the 14th season of the Mlwaukie Poetry Series with a reading
\nby Claudia F. Saleeby Savage. We hope you ar e all safe and well in this difficult time of
\nthe Covid-19 pandemic . Due to it we will not be holding the 14th season of the Milwaukie
\nPoetry Series readings in person. They will be held virtually.

Her reading was originally scheduled on June 10\, 2020\, but the Pandemic intervened
\nand the reading needed to be rescheduled. It wi ll now be livestreamed on April 14\, 2021
\non the Ledding Library YouTube Channel. You can register for this event with Tom Hogan
\nat tomhogan2@comcast.net. It will then be available for viewing on demand on the
\nLedding Library YouTube Channel and on DVD through the library .

Claudia F. Saleeby Savage’s work appears in print\, onst age\, and in galleries and e
\nxplores multidisciplinary collaboratio n and diaspora. She is part of the performance
\nduo Thick in the Thr oat\, Honey. Her latest collection of poetry is Bruising Continents
\n(Spuyten Duyvil) with recent work in BOMB \, Denver Quarterly \, Columbi a \, Nimrod \,
\nWater-Stone Review \, and Anomaly (the interview ser ies “Witness the Hour: Arab
\nAmerican Poets Across the Diaspora”). S he is a 2018-2021 Black Earth Institute
\nFellow\, and has received r ecognition from Ucross\, Jentel\, the Atlantic Center for the
\nArts \, RACC\, Literary Arts\, Mineral School\, and Oregon State University. He r
\ncollaboration\, reductions\, about motherhood and ephemerality wi th visual artist
\nJacklyn Brickman\, is forthcoming in Columbus and Detroit in 2022. Her poetics are
\ninfluenced by rabid reading\, Ali ce Coltrane\, and long hikes in drippy forests. She
\nteaches and li ves with her husband and daughter in Portland\, OR.

You can learn more about her at ww.claudiafsavage.com
\nand www.thickinth ethroathoney.com

A flier of the reading is available fr om the Ledding Library. Thank you to all
\nthe volunteers who make th is reading possible.

The Poetry Bo x LIVE – April Edition
\nTime: Apr 10\, 2021 at 4pm (Pacific) / 7pm ( Eastern)

The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading seri es on the 2nd Saturday of each month and hosted by Shawn Aveningo Sanders.

April Featured Poets:
\n• Penelope Scambly Schott (Oregon)\, author of SOPHIA AND MISTER WALTER WHITMAN

——- ABOU T THE FEATURED POETS ———-
\nPenelope Scambly Schott is a past recipie nt of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry and author of a novel and several b ooks of poetry\, including her 2018 prizewinning chapbook November Quilt a nd most recently On Dufur Hill about a small wheat-growing town in central Oregon.
\nSophia Schott Sweetdog is a four-year-old white goldendood le\, the niece of Lily Schott Sweetdog who co-wrote Lily and Rumi: A Loves tory.
\nMister Walter Whitman is a greatly admired nineteenth-century American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.
\nOrder Penelope’s book HER E: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/sophia-whitman
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\nA three-legged stool\, Sally Naylor is poet\, therapist & teacher \, Sally\, studied with Campbell McGrath in the FIU MFA program\; she thri ved in classes with Maxine Kumin\, Gerald Stern\, Ilya Kaminsky & Tony Hoa gland. Sally is associate editor of SOFLOPOJO\, teaches community worksho ps for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival\, writes memoir as well as text and workbooks for neophytes & now offers Zoomshops for emerging poets.
\n Below is a cento from the manuscript by way of a concise introduction:
\nBold\, unrepentant\, ready: a kind of ginger\, myth buster & koan mist ress\,
\nrogue\, free & holy skeptic\, all snake hips & hiss\, hyperb ole’s own gadfly\,
\none quirky mechanic tuning the orgasmic how her hymns buzz.
\nFor more information about her classes visit her we bsite at: www.writer’scatapult.com

Order Sally’s new book HERE: ht tps://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/synapse-startle

David Belmont is a mixed media artist and community organizer living in New York City. He w rites memoir\, short fiction and poetry\, as well as instrumental music. H is work has appeared in The Poeming Pigeon\, Wildflower Muse and FishFood Magazine. He is currently co-music director of the Castillo Theatre. He ha s been a professional musician for 50 years. His publicly available record ed output since 1999 can be found on Spotify\, iTunes and Amazon.

The Poetry Bo x LIVE – April Edition
\nA monthly poetry series on the 2nd Saturday of each month.
\nApril Features:
\nPenelope Scambly Schott\, Dav id Belmont & Sally Naylor

Zoom LINK (NO need to pre-register):
\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98012854246?pwd=MzkwWm1UcGRxVEVwVm5URHZMMktFZz09

Pattie Palmer -Baker is artist and poet. Although she often combines these two forms of expression in collages of paste paper and calligraphy\, the inspiration fo r and the meaning of the artwork lies within the poem. Not all her poems a ppear in her artwork\, but her artworks always include her poetry. Nominat ed for the Pushcart Poetry Prize\, and published in many journals includin g five Poeming Pigeons Anthologies\, Voicecatcher\, The Best of Voicecatch er)\, The Ghazal Page\, Calyx\, Voices – The Art and Science of Psychother apy\, Bacopa Literary Review\, Winterwolf Press\, and more. First prize wi nner\; 2016 Timberline Review\, first\, second and the Bivona Prize in the 2019 Ageless Authors contest\, and the 2020 first prize in the Central Or egon Writers’ Guild contest. Palmer-Baker will be reading from her recentl y published chapbook\, The Color of Goodbye

Tricia Knoll moved int o the woods in Vermont from Portland\, Oregon about three years ago. Her p oetry appears widely in journals and anthologies andhas received 9 Pushcar t Nominations and one Best of Net. Her collection How I Learned To Be Whit e received the 2018 Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry. . She has fo ur collections in print most of which center on eco-poetry or poetry of pl ace. Her chapbook Checkered Mates comes out April 2021. The poems looks at relationships skewed\, head on and sometimes checkered. Many of the poems tell a story. She will be reading from that chapbook today. For more poet ry and information\, visit triciaknoll.com

This is a virtual event on zoom\, details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81221681959?pwd=V3VySkxsWXhBW Fcyb1p5ekxFUk4zZz09
\nMeeting ID: 812 2168 1959
\nPassword: 5930 77

This year the Mid-Valley Poetry Society’s spring Poetry in Performance program will be a Zoom event\, held Sunday\, April 25\, from 2 to 4 p.m. It will focus on the theme “Healing Fractures” and will feature presentations by Salem pain ter and writer Cynthia Herron and singer-songwriter Kristen Grainger of th e folk-bluegrass group True North.

In anticipation of this program \, the MVPS is inviting poets to write poems in response to a visual work\ , “Low Field with Mended Oak Leaf\,” by Cynthia Herron and/or a song\, “Th e Ghost of Abuelito\,” by Kristen Grainger. (Abuelito is Spanish for grand pa or granddad – an affectionate variant of abuelo/grandfather.) Then atte nd the April 25th event and perform the poems during the open mic segment of the program.

Three images of Herron’s work are attached – one s howing the entire painting and two showing details of different areas. Wha t the images on a flat screen can’t show: It’s 24” W x 20” H and nearly tw o inches thick\; the niche in the center is six inches square and about an inch and a half deep.

To hear Grainger’s song in a performance wi th the True North band\, enter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awdcRGNcOzA in your web browser.

These two works\, the visual piece and the s ong\, inspired the idea of a Poetry in Performance program on the theme of “Healing Fractures.” We hope that one or both will inspire you to write a poem in response and that you will share the poem(s) during the open mic segment of the April 25th program.

Please share this call with oth er poets you know. More information on the entire program will follow soon .

Amelia Díaz E ttinger is a ‘Mexi-Rican\,’ born in México but raised in Puerto Rico. As a BIPOC poet and writer\, she has two full-length poetry books published\; Learning to Love a Western Sky by Airlie Press\, and a bilingual poetry bo ok\, Speaking at a Time /Hablando a la Vez by Redbat Press. A historical/e nvironmental poetry chapbook\, Fossils in a Red Flag is being released by Finishing Line Press\, in 2021. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Her short story ‘A Girl Like Me\,” won honorable mention this year by Ice Colony. Presently\, Amelia Díaz Ett inger is working on an MFA in creative writing at Eastern Oregon Universit y in La Grande Oregon.

This is a virtual event on zoom\, details: h ttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81221681959?pwd=V3VySkxsWXhBWFcyb1p5ekxFUk4zZz09 \nMeeting ID: 812 2168 1959
\nPassword: 593077

The Poetry Bo x LIVE – May Edition
\nMay 8\, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eas tern)

Join Zoom Meeting:
\nNo registration required\, simply click on link about 5 minutes before the show:
\nhttps://zoom.us/j/91 834300143?pwd=NEE3Y2xjWkRlZG1wRlFENGpjZ2xadz09

Julia P aul (Connecticut) – author of STARING DOWN THE TRACKS
\nZeina Azzam ( Virginia) – author of BAYNA BAYNA: IN-BETWEEN
\nDianalee Velie (New H ampshire) – author of ITALIAN LESSON