We've Moved!

Mountain Writers Series has moved to a new office located at: 2804 S.E. 27th Ave., #2, Portland, OR 97202. We'll continue to have the same email address, but our new phone number is 503-232-4517.

Upcoming Readings at The Press Club (2621 SE Clinton):

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 @ 7:00 PM

A Reading by Seven Poets

• Lauren Rusk, of Palo Alto and Oxford, England, reads from her book, Pictures in the Firestorm

• Maureen Alsop takes a break from winning poetry prizes and flies in on silver wings from Palm Springs with Apparition Wren

• Dean Gorman, appearing without his band or his poetry press, will entertain nonetheless

• Annie Lighthart celebrates her return to Portland after three years in Vermont with new, award-winning poems

• Ron Klassnik, in from Puerto Vallarta (yes, that one), was not about to miss Portland on the reading tour for his new book, Holy Land

• Jamalieh Haley brings her talents for the stage and the page from right here in River City

• Kelly Lenox rounds out the Portland contingent with translations of Slovenian poets and poetry by any other name

Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 6:00 PM

Ron Talney and Carl Reisman

Ron Talney was born in British Columbia but has lived most of his life in Oregon. He is an attorney retired from a private non-profit legal aid program that provides free legal representation to low-income clients. He has published four books of poems, The Anxious Ground, The Quietness that is our Name, A Secret Weeping of Stones, New and Selected Poems, and, most recently, The Broken World, as part of the William Stafford Chapbook Series and published by Stone City Press. He is also the editor and publisher of Stone City Press, Lake Oswego, Oregon

Carl Reisman, who was born in Rochester, New York, has lived and worked in Memphis, New Orleans, Iowa City and Eugene, Oregon as well as in Illinois, where he attended the University of Illinois, completing both his undergraduate degree in economics and his law degree. He currently makes his home and works as a lawyer in Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Kettle (2005) and Home Geography (2008), a new chapbook just released from Stone City Press.

Recent Readings:

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Celebrate the day after tax day at The Press Club with April's featured authors, Carla Perry and Matt Love.

Matt Love is publisher of Nestucca Spit Press and the author/editor of the Beaver State Trilogy: Grasping Wastrels vs. Beaches Forever Inc.: Covering the Fights for the Soul of the Oregon Coast; The Far Out Story of Vortex I; and Red Hot and Rollin’: A Retrospection of the Portland Trail Blazers’ 1976-77 Championship Season. He teaches English and history in the Lincoln County School District on the Oregon Coast and is currently editing Citadel of the Spirit, an anthology of essays commemorating Oregon’s upcoming sesquicentennial.

Carla Perry, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, is founder of Writers On The Edge and the Nye Beach Writers' Series, now in its eleventh year on the Central Oregon Coast. She received the Oregon Governor’s Art Award, the Stewart Holbrook Special Award, and an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in fiction. Her poetry, essays, interviews, short stories, and photos of authors have been published widely. She is the owner of Dancing Moon Press, the mother of Zac “Canyon Guy” Perry, at Reed College, and grandmother of Marion, almost three years old.

Please join Mountain Writers Series the third Wednesday of each month for literary readings at SE Portland’s most literate wine café, The Press Club, 2621 S.E. Clinton.

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See a photo slideshow from the March 19, 2008 reading at The Press Club.

B.T. Shaw & Peter Sears (PDF) - March 19, 2008 (Wed) at 7:30 PM

• B.T. Shaw read from her prize-winning collection, This Dirty Little Heart, published this year by Eastern Washington University Press.

• Peter Sears read from two forthcoming collections of poetry, a chapbook, Luge, due out this spring from Cloudbank Books, and Green Diver, which is scheduled for publication by Wordtech Communications in the fall of 2009.

Kathleen Halme (PDF) - October 17, 2007 (Wed) at 7:30 PM

Herman Asarnow (PDF) - December 5, 2007 (Wed) at 7:30 PM

Diane Averill & Jessie Ring (PDF) - August 8, 2007 (Wed) at 7:30 PM

Ron Talney & James Fleming (PDF) - September 26, 2007 (Wed) at 7:30 PM

Workshops

Details on Mountain Writers Series' workshops are posted. Visit our workshops page to see what's coming.