READINGS AND WORKSHOPS
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Saturday 2/18/12 5-7 p.m. at Tsunami Books' Third Saturday Series, 2585 Willamette St. Eugene, OR
Finishing Line Press Poets
Deb Casey
Karen McPherson
Kelly Terwilliger
Quinton Hallett
Read from their poetry. Free. Books available for purchase and signing
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Saturday, February 18 - 7 pm Nye Beach Writers' Series Presents...
An Evening with Ingrid Wendt and Don Colburn
The 3rd Saturday in February Nye Beach Visual Arts Center Show begins at 7 pm in the second floor meeting room of the Newport Visual Arts Center , located at 777 NW Beach Drive (across from the Nye Beach Turnaround). General admission is $6 at the door, students always admitted free. Light refreshments will be available.
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Tuesday, February 21, 5:30 p.m. Windfall Reading at the Eugene Public Library.
This month we are especially pleased to welcome two poets from Ashland. Patricia and Vince Wixon are well known throughout the state for their own poetry, and for their work as teachers, editors, and promoters of other poets' work, especially in bringing poets of national reputation to Southern Oregon.
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In Other Words. February 21st at 7 p.m. This will be our first leap month reading and there won’t be another until 2016, so be sure and come hear our singular featured poets Carolyn Martin and Kathleen Halme. So bring a poem of any type and your appetite for good poets, broadsides, prompts and of course, cookies. Hope to see you there. Picsand info. at http://www.figuresofspeechpdx.wordpress.com/about
Also, please remember we've moved our critique group to Stonehenge Studios at 3508 SW Corbett on the second Sunday of every month from 4-6 p.m. (this month on Feb. 12th) followed by the Studio Series poetry reading hosted by Leah Stenson at 7 p.m. Our critique group is free and open to anyone who brings 8-10 copies of a poem they'd like feedback on from the group (or just come and participate, poem bringing not required
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Verse in Person Wednesday February 22, 2012, 7 PM
Three Wonder Women: Sterling Clark, Hollie Fisher, Aleks Stefanova
For February, Verse in Person presents Three Wonder Women. We bring forward from the under-thirties around town these gems:
Sterling Clark unveils her life and leaves poetry all in a multicolored tumble. Tough as she is tender, she sparkles in the footlights.
Hollie Fisher comes from Boston to Portland, where she lives in a classic setting with her husband and son. “All I wish for is to always be able to pay my rent.”
Aleks Stefanova adds a European luster to the presentation. She has created Q Poetry, a network for queer artists, and hosts a monthly reading at In Other Words.
Chapbooks will be available.
Make it a shine—show up Wednesday February 22 from 7-8 PM at the NW Branch of the Multnomah County Library, 23 and NW Thurman. Free.
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Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen will be offering two free readings and a low-cost workshop. Details:
READINGS: (free, all invited) will be in The Art Gallery, Bldg. 3, Thursday 2/23 at 10:30 and an (identical) reading at 11:30.
WORKSHOP: at 10-2:40 on Saturday 2/25 will be in 9/111. This event will include readings, writing exercises, sharing, craft talk, and more. $50
Interested people can register online at Chemeketa.edu [course info: WXR 0002G CRN 59824]
or hold a place and bring a check to the event by contacting Jan VanStavern at jan.vanstavern@chemeketa.edu (503) or phone 365-4728.
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Friday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m. The Nature of Words (NOW) will host a poetry reading by residents of The Shepherd’s House participating in NOW’s creative writing workshops. The reading takes place at NOW’s literary arts center, 224 NW Oregon Ave. The reading is free and open to the public. The Shepherd's House provides shelter during the day to men, women and children; at night it offers beds to men who have nowhere to sleep. It also offers three meals a day to the hungry, and warm clothing and basic hygiene items to those in need.
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How to Write the Weird:
The Whys, Hows, and Ways of Valuable Estrangements
THREE-HOUR POETRY WORKSHOP WITH MATT SCHUMACHER
Saturday, March 3, 2012, Arts East, White House Gallery
Reading on Friday night, March 2, 2012, 7:30 p.m., La Grande Public Library
“Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a sixteenth-century Italian painter, became famous for painting faces made of vegetables, fruit, sea creatures, and tree roots. Like Arcimboldo, workshop participants too may find that sudden weirdnesses of self-expression can be more than incredibly liberating; such seeming digressions might ultimately better their work. This workshop will reveal methods writers can use to valuably de-familiarize and otherwise add a wild side to their writing.”
(Limit 10 Participants, $25 fee, checks/money orders payable to: Phantom Drift Poetry Workshop, PO Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850)
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Thursday March 8th, 7pm, Seattle poet John Burgess at GHOST TOWN POETRY OPEN MIC
Hosted by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington
all ages and uncensored since 2004
every second Thursday
Cover to Cover Books
6300 NE St. James Rd., Suite 104B
(St. James & Minnehaha)
Vancouver, WA
360-993-7777
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March 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The Studio Series: Poetry Reading and Open Mic will feature Carolyn Martin and Andrea Hollander Budy at Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Avenue, Portland 97239 on Free and open to the public, the Studio Series is held monthly on second Sundays. The Ross Island Café/Grocery is open for light fare before readings. For additional information please contact host and organizer Leah Stenson at leahstenson@comcast.net.
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Saturday March 17th, 5pm-7:30pm, Catherine McGuire and Michelle Graf read at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette, Eugene OR. Free to the public; refreshments provided.
Catherine is an Oregon poet whose new chapbook, Palimpsests, has recently been released by utteredchaos.org and Michelle Graf' is editor of Apollo's Lyre who recently edited a new anthology LIfelines.
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