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home workshops readings press club special events archive wordstock community contact	Readings Archive: 2007 - 2011 December 2011 Wednesday, December 21, 7:30 PM An Evening Reading featuring poets published in Cloudbank --a journal of contemporary writing reading at The Press Club Join Mountain Writers Series and Cloudbank for a reading by ten authors featured in the first four issues of Cloudbank, a journal of contemporary writing, published by Cloudbank Books in Corvallis, Oregon. Mountain Writers Series now offers a cash award — The Silcox Prize — for the best poem published in an issue of Cloudbank. The name of the prize honors the tiny hut at the tree line, just above Timberline Lodge, where clouds meet the mountain on Mt. Hood, Oregon. The featured readers will be announced on our website in the month of November 2011. November 2011 Sunday, November 20, 3:30 PM Vern Rutsala & Jim Shugrue at The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Avenue Portland, OR Tickets: $10 Book-signing reception to follow at Cassidy's Restaurant & Bar, 1331 SW Washington, Portland, at 5 PM View PDF Vern Rutsala is recognized as one of the most notable poets of the Pacific Northwest. Beginning with The Window in 1964, he has written and published at least fifteen books of poetry. How We Spent Our Time won the 2004 Akron Poetry Prize, and The Moment’s Equation was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2005. Among his many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. He taught at Lewis & Clark College from 1961 – 2005 and throughout those decades, as an imposing and significant figure on the local and national poetry scene, he has been a mentor and an inspiration to poets everywhere. Jim Shugrue is the author of three chapbooks: Floating Verses, just published by Barebone Books, Small Things Screaming from 26 Books (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award) and Icewater from Trask House Books. He has received a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission and an Open Voice Award. His work is widely published and anthologized. He co-edits, with his wife, Lisa Steinman, the poetry magazine Hubbub. Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 PM Michael McDowell & Toni Thomas reading at The Press Club Michael McDowell is the author of a new book of poetry, The Hundred-Year House (Windfall Press, 2011). His poetry appears regularly in Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, which he has co-edited with Bill Siverly for the past nine years. His prose about nature and landscape writing has appeared in the anthologies The Ecocriticism Reader (University of Georgia Press), Reading the Earth (University of Idaho Press), and Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (Routledge). A graduate of Stanford University with a PhD from the University of Oregon, he teaches literature and writing at Portland Community College. Toni Thomas has published two chapbooks, Walking on Water (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and Fast as Lightning, winner of the 2010 Gribble Press Poetry Competition. Her full-length collection of poems, Chosen (2011), was a finalist in the 2010 Brick Road Poetry Press. Her work has appeared in over fifty literary magazines, including Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Minnesota Review, Weber-The Contemporary West, Rhino, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry East. Her awards include the Atlanta Review’s International Merit Award and an Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from the Southern California Review, and her poems have twice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Oregon with her family. View PDF Friday, November 4, 7:30 PM William O'Daly & Glen Moore: A Performance An Evening of Neruda in a performance featuring translations of Neruda's work by the poet William O'Daly with music by bassist Glen Moore at The First Unitarian Church View PDF William O’Daly is a poet, translator and fiction writer. His published works include eight books of the late and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day, The Separate Rose, Winter Garden, The Sea and the Bells, The Yellow Heart, The Book of Questions, The Hands of Day, and World’s End), and a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry for Still Another Day and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he has worked as a literary and technical editor, a college professor, and an instructional designer; his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have been published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. He is a board member of Poets Against War and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press. With co-author Han-ping Chin, he recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, based on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which was a finalist in Narrative magazine’s 2009 Fall Story Contest. William O’Daly is now a resident of the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California. Glen Moore is a jazz bassist with early classical training in piano. His performing career began at age 14 with the Young Oregonians in Portland, Oregon, where he met and played with American Indian saxophonist, Jim Pepper. He graduated with a degree in History and Literature from the University of Oregon where he also studied the cello. His formal bass instruction started after college with Jerome Magil in Portland, James Harnett in Seattle, Gary Karr in New York, Plough Christenson in Copenhagen, Ludwig Streicher in Vienna and Francois Rabbath in Hawaii. For the past 30 years, Moore has played a Klotz bass fiddle crafted in the Tyrol circa 1715 on which he has made extensive use of a unique tuning with both a low and high C string. Moore co-founded the group Oregon in 1970 with Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless and Collin Walcott. In 1999, he completed work on the group’s twenty-third album called, Oregon In Moscow, which features his bass playing and compositions with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with hundreds of great jazz artists as well as with performers and singers in other styles of music, and he has performed in concerts with the Kronos Quartet, the Winter Consort, the Philadelphis Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Opera Orchestra, and the Stavanger, Norway Orchestra. Since 1988, Moore has worked with Mountain Writers Series, featured with such renowned authors as Sherman Alexie, Billy Collins, David James Duncan, Linda Gregg, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, Joseph Stroud, Anne Waldman and Al Young – to name only a few. Glen Moore lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon where he maintains a studio and gives private lessons to musicians from many stylistic backgrounds. Pablo Neruda was born Neftalí Eliecer Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile, in 1904. He served as consul in Burma (now Myanmar) and held diplomatic posts in various East Asian and European countries. In 1945, with his poetry having gained a wide international following, Neruda was elected to the Chilean Senate. Shortly thereafter, when Chile’s political climate took a sudden turn to the right, Neruda fled on horseback over the Andes and lived as an exile for many years. Beloved by the Chilean people and looked upon wearily by the Chilean aristocracy and the right wing (though nearly all Chileans can recite at least two of his love poems), his poetry garnered prizes the world over. His collected works would eventually span five large volumes. In 1970 he was appointed Chile’s ambassador to France, and in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1973, twelve days after the military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power and ended Chilean democracy for almost two decades. Please see Workshops for information about a writing workshop with William O'Daly on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, from 1:00 - 4:00 PM. October 2011 Diane Wakoski & Matthew Dickman: A Dialogue Thursday, October 27, 3:30 PM Diane Gregg Pavilion Lewis & Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road Portland OR This event is free and open to the public. Diane Wakoski & Matthew Dickman: Poetry Reading Friday, October 28, 7:30 PM The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Avenue Portland, OR Tickets: $12 Book-signing reception to follow at Cassidy's Restaurant & Bar, 1331 SW Washington, Portland, at 9 PM. Book sales by Broadway Books View PDF Diane Wakoski was born in Whittier, California and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she participated in Thom Gunn's poetry workshops. Her early work was part of the "deep image" movement that also included Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Kelly, among others. She also cites William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg as influences and her later work is more personal and conversational in the Williams mode. She has published over forty books of poetry, including The Butcher’s Apron: New & Selected Poems including “Greed: Part 14” (2000), Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987 (1988) and the four volumes of her The Archaeology of Movies and Books sequence, Argonaut Rose (1998), The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), Jason the Sailor (1993), and Medea the Sorceress (1991). A book of essays, Towards a New Poetry was published in 1980. She is best known for a series of poems collectively known as "The Leather Jacket Diaries." She won the prestigious William Carlos Williams award for her book Emerald Ice. Her honors include a Fulbright fellowship, a Michigan Arts Foundation award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Diane Wakoski lives in East Lansing, Michigan, where, since 1976, she has taught at Michigan State University. Matthew Dickman won the APR/Honnickman First Book Prize for All-American Poem (2008), chosen by Tony Hoagland and published by Copper Canyon Press, and the 2009 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New Yorker and Tin House. He has received fellowships for his work from the Michener Center for Writers, the Vermont Studio Centers, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. With his twin brother, poet Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman has been profiled in Poets & Writers and The New Yorker. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Wednesday, October 19, 7:30 PM Timothy Schell & Ronald Talney reading at The Press Club Timothy Schell is the winner of the Mammoth Book Award for Prose for his novel The Drums of Africa (2007), the co-author of Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry (2007), and co-editor of the anthology A Writer’s Country (2001). His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Award and won the Martindale Award for Long Fiction. He teaches literature and writing at Columbia Gorge Community College in Hood River, Oregon. The Memoir of Jake Weedsong, the 2010 Finalist for the AWP Award for the Novel, was published by Serving House Books in August, 2011. Ronald Talney was born in British Columbia but has lived in Oregon most of his life. He is an attorney retired from a private, non-profit legal aid program. He has recently published a novel, Nockers Up!, a satiric thriller from Inkwater Press and a memoir, The Archives of Silence, from West Virginia University. In addition he has published a juvenile mystery novel, The Ghost of Deadman’s Hollow, from University Editions, and five books of poems, most recently, A Secret Weeping of Stones, New and Selected Poems, from Plain View Press (2010) as well as numerous articles, personal essays, and individual poems in a variety of journals, literary magazines, newspapers and quarterlies. He lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon with his wife, Linnette. View PDF Wednesday, October 5, 7:30 PM Judith Barrington Reading 23 Sandy Gallery 623 NE 23rd Avenue, Portland OR Suggested donation: $5. View PDF Judith Barrington’s Lifesaving: A Memoir won the 2000 Lambda Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. She has also published three collections of poetry, most recently Horses and the Human Soul. Recent work includes two chapbooks: Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea and Lost Lands (winner of the Robin Becker Chapbook Award). Her best-selling text, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, is widely used by universities and writing groups in the U.S., Germany, and Australia. She is a faculty member of the University of Alaska, Anchorage’s MFA Program, where she teaches memoir. September 2011 Wednesday, September 21, 7:30 PM Scott Nadelson & Lidia Yuknavitch reading at The Press Club Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the memoir The Chronology of Water and a forthcoming novel, The Small Backs of Children, both from Hawthorne Books. She has three previous collections of short stories, Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess, and Real to Reel. Her stories and creative nonfiction appear widely in literary journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of awards from Literary Arts, Poets and Writers, and the Oregon Arts Council. She teaches writing, literature and women's studies at Mt. Hood Community College; she lives in Portland with her writer/filmmaker husband Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son, Miles. Her other love, is water. Scott Nadelson is author of three story collections: Aftermath (Hawthorne Books, 2011); The Cantor’s Daughter, winner of the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Fiction Prize for Emerging Jewish Writers and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize; and Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories, winner of the Oregon Book Award for short fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Nadelson teaches creative writing at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. View PDF August 2011 Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Kevin Clark reading at The Press Club Kevin Clark is the author of two volumes of poetry, Self-Portrait with Expletives, which won the Pleiades Press contest, and In the Evening of No Warning, which earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and collections, including The Georgia Review (and Keener Sounds, The Georgia Review's fortieth anniversary retrospective), The Antioch Review, College English,Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and The New York Quarterly. He teaches American literature and creative writing at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and during the summers serves as faculty for the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program, in Tacoma, Washington. View PDF July 2011 Friday, July 8, 7:30 PM Dorianne Laux & Carl Adamshick reading at The Old Church Dorianne Laux is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Book of Men (W.W. Norton, 2011). Other books include Facts About the Moon, which won the Oregon Book Award; Awake; What We Carry, finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award; and Smoke, as well as two small press editions, Superman: The Chapbook and Dark Charms, both from Red Dragonfly Press. She lives in Raleigh, N.C., where she teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. Carl Adamshick was selected as the winner of the 2010 Walt Whitman Award, one of the most prestigious first book prizes in the country, for his collection of poems Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). The Award includes a $5,000 cash prize and one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Adamschick, who lives in Portland, is co-founder with poet Michael McGriff of Tavern Books. View PDF Wednesday, July 20, 8 PM Patty Wixon & Vince Wixon reading at The Press Club Patty Wixon earned her MA at Reed College and pursued a career in public education, both as a teacher and administrator, serving as the first director of the Oregon Writing Project. She was also the first president of Friends of William Stafford and since retiring has been a part-time researcher in the William Stafford Archives. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Hubbub, Rendezvous, Moving Mountain, The Cresset, and in the anthology Deer Drink the Moon. She and her husband VinceWixon are longtime poetry editors for Jefferson Monthly, the Jefferson Public Radio program guide in Ashland, Oregon, where for thirty years she’s helped bring writers of national reputation to the Rogue Valley. Her chapbook, Airing the Sheets, was published by Finishing Line Press in the spring of 2011. Vince Wixon is the author of two books of poetry, The Square Grove (2006) and Seed (1993), as well as a recent chapbook, Blue Moon, 29 poems developed from lines from the Chinese masters (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2010). He has poems in three anthologies, including From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. With Paul Merchant, Wixon co-edited William Stafford’s Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer’s Vocation (Michigan, 1998) and The Answers Are Inside the Mountains (Michigan, 2003) and helped edit Stafford’s The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 1998). Wixon is also co-producer of two videos on William Stafford, What the River Says and The Life of the Poem, and one on Lawson Inada, What It Means to be Free. He lives in Ashland, Oregon. View PDF June 2011 Wednesday, June 22, 7:30 PM Lou Lipsitz & B.T. Shaw reading at 23 Sandy Gallery —B.T. Shaw was born and raised in central Ohio near her great-grandparents' homestead. Her early career was spent covering politics and the environment for a daily paper in Jacksonville, N.C., home to Camp Lejeune. These days, she reviews books and edits the Poetry column for The Oregonian, and teaches writing at Portland State and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her first book, This Dirty Little Heart, won the 2007 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry and was published by Eastern Washington University Press. She is now working on a group of poems about love and war, drawn in part from her experience as a journalist in a Marine Corps community. —Lou Lipsitz is the author of four full-length books of poems, most recently, If This World Falls Apart, which won the 2010 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry from Lynx House Press. Other books include Cold Water (Wesleyan University Press, 1967) and Seeking the Hook (1997), about which George Hitchcock wrote: “These are poems of clarity, wit and passion. The best of them are the equal of anything now being written in America.” The focus of Lipsitz’s work has shifted somewhat during his career. His new book combines the bold imagery of the earlier poems with quiet and deep reflection upon our inner struggles: loss, psychological change, the vagaries of fate, the ways in which we are unknown to ourselves, and issues faced particularly by men in our society. For many years a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, since 1995 Mr. Lipsitz has been a practicing psychotherapist. View PDF Wednesday, June 15, 8 PM Maxine Scates & Martha Silano reading at The Press Club Maxine Scates is the author of three books of poetry, Undone (New Issues, 2011), Toluca Street and Black Loam. She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. Her poems have been widely published in such journals as AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Ironwood, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Her work has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, the Lyre Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She has taught at Lane Community College, Lewis and Clark College and most recently Reed College. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. Martha Silano’s books are The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, chosen by Campbell McGrath as the winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, Blue Positive, and What the Truth Tastes Like. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, AGNI, The Best American Poetry 2009, and elsewhere. Martha has been awarded grants and fellowships from Washington State Artist Trust, Seattle 4-Culture, the Arizona Poetry Center, and the Millay Colony for the Arts, among others. She teaches at Bellevue College. [Silano is pictured above on the right.] View PDF May 2011 Wednesday, May 18, 7:30 PM Jennifer Lauck & Cindy Stewart-Rinier reading at The Press Club Jennifer Lauck is an award-winning journalist and the author of the New York Times Bestseller, Blackbird. She has written four memoirs about her life experiences which include the early deaths of her mother, father and brother as well as the fallout of her adoption as a baby. Her most recent is Found (Seal Press, March 2011), which details her journey to find her biological roots and reunite with her original mother. Cindy Stewart-Rinier is currently a student at Pacific Lutheran University, where she is working toward an MFA in Creative Writing, and a member of the Mountain Writers Series Board of Directors in Portland. She has taught creative writing to elementary and middle school students, as well as adult workshops at the Molalla Book Faire. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, The Smoking Poet and Animals as Teachers and Healers. In 1997 she was awarded the first place prize in the Portland Pen Women Poetry Contest. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Todd, son, Simon and bandy-legged dog, Keela. View PDF April 2011 Wednesday, April 20, 7:30 PM Paulann Petersen reading at The Press Club Paulann Petersen, Oregon’s current Poet Laureate, is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in many publications including Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, and Wilderness Magazine. She is the author of four full-length collections of poems, The Wild Awake (Confluence Press, 2002); Blood Silk (Quiet Lion Press, 2004); A Bride of Narrow Escape (Cloudbank Books, 2004); and most recently The Voluptuary (Lost Horse Press, 2010), as well as four chapbooks: Under the Sign of a Neon Wolf, The Animal Bride, Fabrication, and The Hermaphrodite Flower. Her work has been selected for the web site Poetry Daily and For Poetry in Motion, which puts poems on buses and light rail cars in the Portland metropolitan area. The recipient of Oregon Literary Arts' 2006 Holbrook Award, Paulann has taught a number of poetry workshops for colleges, libraries, and writers' conferences, including Fishtrap, Oregon Writers' Workshop in Portland (Northwest College of Art, Portland Art Museum), Mountain Writers Series, Oregon State Poetry Association, The Creative Arts Community at Menucha, Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and the Lifelong Learning Institute at Chemeketa Community College. She serves on the board for Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January William Stafford Birthday Events. View PDF March 2011 Wednesday, March 16, 7:30 PM Karen Holmberg & Jennifer Richter reading at The Press Club Karen Holmberg’s first book, The Perseids, won the Vassar Miller Prize and was published by the University of North Texas Press in 2001. A Discovery/The Nation Award winner, her poems have appeared in such magazines as The Paris Review, The Nation, Quarterly West, Slate, West Branch, Southern Poetry Review, Subtropics, and Hotel Amerika. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where she teaches literature and poetry writing at Oregon State University. [Karen Holmberg is on the left.] Jennifer Richter's book Threshold won the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition and was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2010. Richter's work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughsares, The Missouri Review, Cloudbank, and in the anthology, A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's Poetry. She was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in Poetry by Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program for four years. She lives in Corvallis with her children and husband, the novelist Keith Scribner. In the spring of 2011, Richter will be a Visiting Writer at Oregon State University, where she will teach the M.F.A. poetry workshop. [Jennifer Richter is pictured above on the right.] February 2011 Wednesday, February 16 @ 7:30 PM Lee Montgomery & Pauls Toutonghi reading at The Press Club Lee Montgomery is the author of The Things Between Us, A Memoir (Free Press), Whose World Is This? Stories (University of Iowa Press), and Searching for Emily: Illustrated (Nothing Moments Press). The Things Between Us received the 2007 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction and Whose World Is This? the 2007 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist in fiction for the Ken Kesey Book Award. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications including Story, Antioch Review, Iowa Review, the New York Times magazine, among others, and is forthcoming in Glimmer Train as the winner of the 2010 Family Matters Story Award. She is currently the editorial director of Tin House Books and the executive editor for Tin House magazine. She lives in Portland with her husband and daughter. Pauls Toutonghi is Assistant Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College where he teaches fiction writing and American Lit. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, One Story Magazine, Glimmer Train, Terminus, Book Magazine and other small periodicals. He received a Pushcart Prize for his short story, Regeneration, which appeared in The Boston Review in 2000, when Pauls was twenty-three. His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House in 2006. His other writing has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Crab Creek Review, and The Yemen Observer. He received his MFA in poetry and his Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University. January 2011 Wednesday, January 19 @ 7:30 PM Noel Hanlon & Greg Chaimov reading at The Press Club Noël Hanlon is a native Oregonian who lives on thirty acres in the Willamette Valley where she and her husband Peter raised their two children and learned – from the ground up – how to be shepherds and gardeners, running a small CSA of organic vegetables. Her first book of poems, Blue Abundance, was published and launched last April in the West of Ireland where she has had the pleasure and privilege of spending time and making friends since 1994. Greg Chaimov is a lawyer and lobbyist; he writes to salve his soul. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in journals throughout the United States and Canada. A limited edition chapbook, The Other World, was published by the William Stafford Center at Lewis and Clark College. His first full-length collection of poetry, Everything is Water, is forthcoming from Press 22. He lives in Milwaukie, Oregon, a town founded by orchardists on the Willamette River, where he serves on the town council. All readings below from 2007 to 2010 were held at The Press Club December 2010 Wednesday, December 15 @ 7:30 PM David Cooke & Scott Siegel David Cooke was raised Catholic in Oakland, California, and writes and runs The Lawn Guy from his home in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Winner of the 2009 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize, his work most recently appeared in Hunger Mountain, Flatmancrooked and A River & Sound Review. [David Cooke is on the left.] Scot Siegel is author of three volumes of poetry, Skeleton Says (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Untitled Country (Pudding House Publications, 2009), and Some Weather (Plain View Press, 2008). Siegel's second full-length collection is due out from Salmon Poetry in 2012. Scot Siegel lives with his family in Lake Oswego, Oregon. In addition to working as a planning consultant, and writing prose and poetry, Siegel serves on the Board of Trustees of the Friends of William Stafford and edits the online poetry journal Untitled Country Review. [Scot Siegel is pictured above on the right.] November 2010 Tuesday, November 30 @ 7:30 PM Michel Glazer with Kirsten Rian, Shaun McGillis and Michael Achterman Michele Glazer is the author of three books of poetry: It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See, which received the 1996 AWP Award in poetry and was published in 1997 by the University of Pittsburgh Press; Aggregate of Disturbances (Iowa, 2004); and On Tact, & the Made Up World (Iowa, 2010). She has published widely in periodicals including American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Field, Harvard Review, Iowa Review and Ploughshares, and her work has been included in numerous anthologies. Among her awards are the Richard Hugo Chair in Poetry, University of Montana, Spring 2006, and fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Glazer lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches at Portland State University, where she directs the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. The evening will include brief readings by Glazer's 2nd-year MFA students Michael Achterman, Shaun McGillis and Kirsten Rian. Wednesday, November 17 @ 7:30 PM Floyd Skloot Floyd Skloot is a creative nonfiction writer, poet, and fiction writer whose work has received three Pushcart Prizes, a Pen USA Literary Award, two Pacific NW Book Awards, an Independent Publishers Book Award, and two Oregon Book Awards. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Poetry, American Scholar, Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Hudson Review, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and Creative Nonfiction. His seventeen books include three memoirs, In the Shadow of Memory (2003) A World of Light (2005) and The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (2008); four poetry collections, Approximately Paradise (2005), The End of Dreams (2006), Selected Poems: 1970-2005 (2008) and The Snow's Music (2008); and the novels Summer Blue (1994) and Patient 002 (2007). In 2011, Tupelo Press will publish his first collection of short stories, Cream of Kohlrabi, and his newest collection of poems, Close Reading. He contributes book reviews to the New York Times Book Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Harvard Review, Sewanee Review, Notre Dame Review and other publications, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Skloot has taught at the Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writers Conference at Goucher College, the Paris Writers Workshop, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Beverly Hallberg, a master gardener and landscape painter. Tuesday, November 2 @ 7:30 PM Madeline DeFrees Madeline DeFrees was born in Ontario, Oregon, in 1919. At age 17, she entered the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, assuming the name of Sister Mary Gilbert for the next 38 years. She has taught at universities and colleges throughout the U.S., including the University of Massachusetts where she directed its MFA program, and most recently for the Mountain Writers Pacific Low-Residency MFA program in Forest Grove, OR. . She has published eight volumes of poetry, two chapbooks and two memoirs on her life as a nun. Blue Dusk (Copper Canyon Press, 2001), a volume of new and collected poems, won a Washington State Book Award and the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment of the Arts award, and Image’s 2004 Denise Levertove Award. She currently resides in Portland, OR. October 2010 Wednesday, October 20 @ 8 PM Robin Cody Robin Cody is the author of Richochet River and Voyage of a Summer Sun, both of which appear on the Oregon State Library's "150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial" list. Voyage of a Summer Sun won the Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. His latest book, Another Way the River Has, is a collection of short true stories published by Oregon State University Press. Cody has worked as an English teacher, a dean of college admissions, a baseball umpire, and a school bus driver. He lives with his wife, Donna, in Portland. September 2010 Wednesday, Sept. 15, @ 8 PM Verlena Orr & John Morrison Verlena Orr, twice nominated for Pushcart, hails from Kamiah, Idaho, one mountain west of Missoula, Montana. Raised on a farm, she attended school in Kamiah on the Nez Perce Reservation. She has worked has a secretary, social worker, hired girl, landlord, instructor at PCC and with the Talented and Gifted Program for Portland Public. Her poems have been published from California and east to the U.K. She received her MFA from the University of Montana, she has published three chapbooks and two full-length books of poems, most recently, Taking It to the Limit (Dancing Moon Press, 2009). Now retired, Orr lives urban and does the real work of writing poems; she also recently produced a documentary on the life of her rancher cousin, Wayne James. John Morrison earned his MFA from the University of Alabama and received the 2003 C. Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship from Literary Arts. His book, Heaven of the Moment, won the 2006 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition and was a finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous national literary journals, including the Cimarron Review, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore. He has taught poetry at the University of Alabama and Washington State University, Vancouver, and is a Writer-in-Residence for Literary Arts' Writers in the Schools program in Portland, Oregon. August 2010 Wednesday, August 18 @ 8 PM Ron Talney & Mary Soden Ron Talney has published five books of poetry, the most recent being A Secret Weeping of Stones, New and Selected Poems, from Plain View Press (2010). He is also the editor of Stone City I, an anthology of Oregon Poets, published by Stone City Press. He is an attorney retired from a non-profit, legal services program that represents low-income clients. He is married to Linnette and lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Mary Soden is a painter, a sculptor, a poet and a prose writer. Her first publication, Original Moons: Those Who Pull the Earth, is a collection of interviews with women in 1984 and again, asking the same questions, with women in 2007. Now retired from work as Director of the Senior Center in The Dalles, OR, she lives in Mosier, Oregon. July 2010 Wednesday, July 21 @ 8:00 PM Gary Thompson & Thomas Aslin Gary Thompson’s latest book, To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us, was published by Turning Point Books, and it joins three previous collections: Hold Fast, As for Living, and On John Muir’s Trail. He and his wife, Linda, are co-publishers of Cedar House Books, a poetry press they revived in 2005. They live on San Juan Island, where he likes to think of himself as the novice skipper of a modest boat, an old trawler named Keats. Thomas Aslin, born in Spokane, has lived his entire life in the Northwest. Aslin holds a B.A. from the University of Washington and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana where he studied with Madeline DeFrees and the late Richard Hugo. His poems have appeared in Natural Bridge, INTRO , and Artful Dodge, among others. Publications include a chapbook, SweetSmoke from Red Wing Press, West Sacramento, California and a full-length collection, A Moon Over Wings, from Clark City Press, Livingston, Montana. A Moon Over Wings was a finalist in 2009 for the Washington State Book Award. June 2010 Wednesday, June 16 @ 8:00 PM Peter Sears & Dave Jarecki Peter Sears is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, among them The Brink, winner of the Peregrine-Smith Poetry Competition and the 2000 WESTAF Book Award in Poetry, and most recently Green Diver (CW Books, 2009). Luge, his fifth chapbook, was published in 2008. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Saturday Review, The New York Times, Orion and many literary magazines and anthologies. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers Workshop, he teaches at Pacific University’s MFA and lives in Corvallis, Oregon. Dave Jarecki writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction from his home in Northeast Portland, and facilitates youth and adult writing workshops throughout the Greater Portland area. In 2004 he founded Breakerboy Communications, a writing firm that helps businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations communicate their stories. He is the author ofBackwards On the Train, a chapbook of 11 poems, a contributor with Read Write Poem, an online poetry community, and features interviews with poets and writers on his website, DaveJarecki.com. His creative work has appeared inCloudbank Magazine,Baseball Savvy, andVoices of Central Pennsylvania. June 2010 Special Event Monday, June 7 @ 7:30 PM Spring 2010 "Graduation Reading" featuring Jessica Lamb Poet Jessica Lamb will be joined by her Portland Community College creative writing student Paul Guenther, Andrea Munoz, Casey Twining, Carmen Bradbury, Cassandra Schreiber, Dill McVein and Erik Olson Jessica Lamb received a master’s degree in Italian literature from Stanford University before settling in Portland, where she has taught writing for many years through the Northwest Writing Institute, Portland Community College, and Literary Arts Writers in the Schools program. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, includingPoetry,The Southern Review, andWillow Spring. Her collection of poems, Last Apples of Late Empires, from Airlie Press was published in 2009. This event will include brief readings by seven students from Jessica Lamb’s spring 2010 Portland Community College creative writing workshop: Paul Guenther, Andrea Munoz, Casey Twining, Carmen Bradbury, Cassandra Schreiber, Dill McVein and Erik Olson. May 2010 Special Event Monday, May 24 @ 7:00 PM Spring 2010 "Graduation Reading" featuring new work by fiction writers from The Pinewood Table Workshop. Workshop leader Joanna Rose will be joined by Scott Sparling & Sherri H. Hoffman Joanna Rose is the author of Little Miss Strange (PNBA Fiction Prize/Oregon Book Award Finalist); a teacher with Writers in the Schools and Wordstock; and special writer to The Oregonian. She has published poetry and short prose in ZYZZYVA, Artisan Journal, High Desert Journal & forthcoming in Bellingham Review. An alumni of Dangerous Writers, she has guided critique at The Pinewood Table for over ten years. Scott Sparling, born in Michigan, rode freights around West and Midwest before moving to the Northwest. Began Wire to Wire with a grant from the Seattle Arts Commission. His short story "Walking" was a second-place winner in the Wordstock Fiction competition a few years ago. WTW will be published by Tin House in March 2011. He has been at The Pinewood Table for four years. Sherri H. Hoffman is a local working writer, social media geek, sports fanatic, occasional traveler, and the mother of many girls. Some of her short stories are published in Etchings, Duck and Herring Field Guide, and are online at the Noneuclidean Cafe, and Whidbey Writers Student Choice. During the day when not writing, she has been known to blog and design websites. She has been at The Pinewood Table since 2005. May 2010 Wednesday, May 19 @ 8:00 PM David Axelrod and David Memmott David Axelrod is the author of five collections of poems, including The Cartographer’s Melancholy, winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Poetry and finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award in Poetry, and most recently, Departing By A Broken Gate, published in 2010 by Wordcraft of Oregon. His collection of cultural and environmental essays about the interior Northwest,Troubled Intimacies, appeared in 2004. His poems and essays have been published inNew Letters, Boulevard, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, River Styx, Verse Daily,among others. He also editsbasalt : a journal of fine & literary arts. David Memmott has published five books of poetry, a novel and a story collection. Recent work has been published by Strange Horizons, High Desert Journal, Windfall and in the anthologies, Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon, Salt: An Oregon Coastal Poetry Anthology, Writers on the Job: Tales of the Non-Writing Life and The Alchemy of Stars: An Anthology of Rhysling Award Winners. Memmott is a Fishtrap Fellow and has received three Fellowships for Publishing from Literary Arts, Inc. His newest book is the poetry collection, Giving It Away. His long narrative poem, “Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West” is forthcoming in the Poets and Writers e-chapbook series edited by Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy on Web del Sol. He is the editor and publisher of Wordcraft of Oregon. April 2010 Wednesday, April 21 @ 8:00 PM Joseph Stroud Joseph Stroud's books of poetry include In the Sleep of Rivers, Signatures, Below Cold Mountain, Country of Light, and, most recently, Of This World: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press). His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and was featured on National Public Radio’s Writer’s Almanac. Among his honors is the Witter Bynner Fellowship of the Library of Congress, as well as a Pushcart Prize. Stroud makes his home on the California coast and in a cabin in the Sierra Nevada. March 2010 Wednesday, March 17 @ 7:30 PM Tom Bremer & David Filer Tom Bremer was born in Cincinatti and grew up in California. He has a B.A. from St. Mary’s College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he was co-founder of the Portland Poetry Festival in 1973 and a charter member of the board of the Oregon Writers’ Workshop. Now retired from many years of teaching English, he is the author of three collections of poetry, Par Amour (1986); A Bird That Changes Trees, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in 1988; and Just Once (2001). David Filer grew up in the California desert, took degrees in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and taught in San Diego and Eugene. He then took a law degree from the University of Oregon and has been engaged in the practice of law for a federal agency in Portland. He lives with his wife Marlene Anderson and has a son, Curran, who lives in Chicago. He has published in numerous literary journals. His first chapbook, Night Verse, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005 and in 2009 his chapbook, The Landscape There, was published by Stone City Press. February 2010 Wednesday, February 17 @ 7:30 PM Bill Siverly & Barbara Drake Bill Siverly was born and grew up in Lewiston, Idaho, and he has lived in Portland since 1972. He has published three books of poems: Parzival (1981), Phoenix Fire (1987), and The Turn (2000). Hel taught literature, composition, and creative writing at Portland Community College for twenty-five years. Since 2002 he has been co-editor with Michael McDowell of Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, which features poetry of the Pacific Northwest and appears twice yearly on the equinoxes. His most recent book of poems, Clearwater Way, was be published by Traprock Books in August 2009. Barbara Drake’s most recent book of poetry, Driving One Hundred, was published in 2009 by Windfall Press. Other books of poetry include What We Say to Strangers, Love at the Egyptian Theatre, Life in a Gothic Novel, Bees in Wet Weather, and Small Favors. She is also the author of Writing Poetry, widely used as a college textbook, and Peace at Heart: an Oregon Country Life, a memoir, which was an Oregon Book Award finalist in 1999. Born in Kansas, she moved with her parents to Oregon as a small child and grew up in Coos Bay. She earned her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Oregon, and subsequently lived in Michigan for sixteen years where she taught at Michigan State University before returning to Oregon to teach at Linfield College, from 1983 until her recent retirement. The author and her husband live on a small farm in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range. January 2010 Wednesday, January 20 @ 7:30 PM Jim Kopp Jim Kopp is Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University and other graduate degrees in history and library science. His undergraduate degree in history and English is from the University of Oregon. His book, Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage (OSU Press, 2009) surveys nearly three hundred communal groups attempted or planned in Oregon over the past 150 years. He has written and presented on several aspects of utopian studies in both its literary and communal manifestations. His extensive private collection on the works by and about Edward Bellamy and of American utopian literature is described in a book published last fall by Berberis Press at Lewis & Clark. He lives with his wife, Sue, appropriately in Aurora, Oregon, which was the earliest communal settlement in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to his varied scholarly pursuits, Jim is completing a children’s book on Aurora Keil—the daughter of the founder of the Aurora Colony and for whom the colony was named—who died of smallpox in 1862 at the age of thirteen. December 2009 Wednesday, December 16th @ 7:30 PM Lex Runciman & Carlos Reyes Lex Runciman has lived most of his life in Oregon's Willamette Valley.Starting from Anywhere (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2009) is his fourth collection of poetry, following Luck (1981), The Admirations (1989), winner of the Oregon Book Award, and Out of Town (2004).A co-editor of two anthologies, his own work has appeared in several anthologies including From Here We Speak and Portland Lights. He is Professor of English at Linfield College, where he received the Edith Green Award in teaching in 1997. Carlos Reyes is a noted poet and translator. His latest book of poetry is The Book of Shadows: New and Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2009). Among his other volumes are The Shingle Weaver’s Journal (1980), At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004), and A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995), winner of the Bluestem Prize. His most recent book of translations is Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez's La señal del cuervo/The Sign of the Crow. Last year he was recipient of The Fortner Award from St Andrews College. He has been an Oregon Arts Commission Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, a Fundacion Valparaoso Fellow, (Spain), a Heinrich Boll Fellow (Ireland) and most recently the poet-in-resident at the Joshua Tree National Park. November 2009 Wednesday, November 18th @ 7:30 PM Roger Wendlick Roger Wendlick was born in Portland, Oregon, where he worked for most of his adult life in heavy construction. Roger also lived a parallel life as an antiquarian book collector. In 1980 Roger began to obsessively collect materials related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, making it his goal to assemble the world’s most complete collection of printed materials relating to the Expedition. In 1998 Roger achieved his goal and devoted himself full time to study and teaching about the Expedition.Wendlick will be reading from his book, Shotgun on My Chest: Memoirs of a Lewis and Clark Book Collector, which is the chronicle of one man’s obsession with book collecting. October 2009 Wednesday, October 21st @ 7:30 PM Gina Ochsner Gina Ochsner lives in Keizer, Oregon and divides her time between writing and teaching with the Seattle Pacific Low-Residency MFA program.Ochsner has been awarded a John L. Simon Guggenheim grant and a grant from the National Endowment of Arts. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Glimmertrain and the Kenyon Review. She is the author of the short story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the story collection People I Wanted to Be. Both books received the Oregon Book Award. Her novel The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight (Portobello Press) is a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award for Fiction. September 2009 Wednesday, September 16th @ 7:30 PM Katherine Dunn Katherine Dunn will be reading from her new collection of essays on the sport of boxing, One Ring Circus. These pieces range from portraits of legendary fighters such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, and Mike Tyson to the unsung stories of trainers, amateurs and promoters. She has written about and reported on the sport of boxing since 1981. Her prize-winning boxing journalism has appeared in many publications from The Ring and KO Magazine to Vogue, Esquire and Playboy. Her column, Punch Lines, ran weekly in The Skanner Newspaper in Portland and Seattle from 1982 to 1995. Katherine Dunn is the author of the novel Geek Love, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1989. Dunn’s other publications include the novels Attic (1970) and Truck (1971). She also wrote the text for Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook (1995), a book of homicide photography; the humorous The Slice: Information with an Attitude (1989) (also published as Why Do Men Have Nipples? And Other Low-Life Answers to Real-Life Questions (1990), which contains her collected newspaper columns from Willamette Week. Katherine Dunn lives and works in Portland. August 2009 Wednesday, August 19th @ 7:30 PM Paul Merchant & Jerry Harp Paul Merchant is William Stafford Archivist at Lewis & Clark College, Portland. A native of Wales, he taught for many years at Warwick University before taking up residence in Oregon. His fourth collection of poems, Some Business of Affinity (2006), was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. His third volume of translations from modern Greek, Monochords by Yannis Ritsos, was published in 2007 by Trask House Press. Jerry Harp's books of poems are Creature (Salt 2003), Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press 2004), and Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains (Salt 2006). With Jan Weissmiller he co-edited A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press 2006). His For Us, What Music: On the Life and Poetry of Donald Justice is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. His essays and reviews appear regularly in Pleiades. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College. July 2009 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 @ 7:30 PM Marianne Kleckacz & Dick Bakken Marianne Klekacz lives and writes in Oregon’s Coast Range Mountains. A native of Oregon, she returned there after a journey that took her from the wilds of Alaska to the deserts of Arizona, to San Francisco, Switzerland, Denmark, England, The Philippines, the Caribbean Islands, and through many of the fifty states. She has been a cowgirl, police woman, race car driver, life guard, and a technical specialist in computers and telecommunications. She helps nurture (with husband Ben) 100 acres of mixed-tree forest. A river runs through it. Any or all of these things are likely to show up in her poems. Her first chapbook, Life Science, won the Edna Meudt Memorial Award in 2003. She was awarded a B.A. in English and Writing from Marylhurst University and an M.F.A. in Writing from Pacific University. Dick Bakken lived in Portland ten years, where he taught English and Creative Writing at Portland State University 1966–70, published an internationally reviewed anthology of contemporary inflammatory Bengali poetry in 1967, co-directed the Portland Poetry Center at University of Portland in 1968–70, made a celebrated resignation from PSU on National General Strike Day 1970, originated the USA poetry gathering icon the Portland Poetry Chicken in 1972, co-founded the Portland Poetry Festival in 1973–74, was one of the three speakers at the Governor’s inauguration of William Stafford as Oregon State Poet Laureate in 1975, as well as being sued for $75,000 over dirty words in his anthology of works by children in 1975, and much more. His most recent book—”Greatest Hits 1967-2002—includes six created while living in Portland. June 2009 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 @ 7:30 PM Tom Crawford and Carlos Reyes Tom Crawford* is the author of five books of poems: If It Weren’t for Trees; Lauds, winner of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry; China Dancing; The Temple on Monday, winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award; and Wu Wei (Milkweed Editions, 2007). Widely published in journals and anthologies, Crawford has been recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Oregon Arts Commission. For thirty years he has taught throughout the Western U.S. as well as in the People’s Republic of China and at Chonnam National University in Kwangju, Korea. In 2008 he was Poet in Residence at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. He lives with his partner Mary and their dog Walt in Santa Fe, NM. Carlos Reyes is a noted poet and translator. His latest book of poetry is At the Edge the Edge of the Western Wave (2004). His The Book of Shadows; New and Selected Poems is due out next year from Lost Horse Press. A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995) was a winner of the Bluestem Prize. His most recent book of translations is Ignacio Ruiz Pérez’s La señal del cuervo / The Sign of the Crow. Last year he was recipient of The Fortner Award from St Andrews College. He has been an Oregon Arts Commission Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, a Fundación Valparaíso Fellow, (Spain), a Heinrich Boll Fellow (Ireland) and most recently was poet- in- resident at the Joshua Tree National Park. May 2009 Wednesday, May 20, 2009 @ 7:30 PM Brian Doyle and John Daniel Brian Doyle [on the left] is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland – “the finest spiritual magazine in the United States,” says Annie Dillard. He is also the author of nine books of essays, nonfiction, and “proems,” and his work has appeared in The Best American Essays anthologies, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion, The American Scholar, and magazines and newspapers in Africa, Australia, Ireland, France, England, and New Zealand. His books have four times been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, and he received the 2008 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, which still makes him snort with laughter. The very idea. John Daniel’s new book, The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature (Counterpoint, April 2009), is a collection of personal essays that explore various subjects in the human and more-than-human worlds, seeking to define his allegiances to his home places and region and the wholeness of life itself. Author of nine books of poetry, essays, and memoir, Daniel has won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Rogue River Journal, two Oregon Book Awards in Literary Nonfiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at Ohio State University, Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn Daniel, in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon. Download PDF April 2009 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 @ 7:30 PM Patrick Brocarde, Sean Patrick Hill and Lindsay Hill March 2009 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 @ 7:30 PM Alison Apotheker and Molly Weller February 2009 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 @ 7:00 PM Endi Bogue Hartigan, Laura Winter and Paulann Petersen December 2008 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 7:30 PM - CANCELLED BECAUSE OF WEATHER Dennis McBride and Paulann Petersen November 2008 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 7:00 PM Fall 2008 Attic Poetry Workshop Reading featuring Ron Bloodworth, Carolyn Martin, Mitchell Mitchell McInnis, Alida Rol, Caitlin Scott and Wendy Willis introduced by poet & workshop leader Kathleen Halme October 2008 Wednesday, October 17, 2008 @ 7:30 PM Kate Gray, Melissa Silitoe and Chris Ridenour September 2008 Wednesday, September 17, 2008 @ 7:00 PM Carl Adamschick and Matthew Dickman August 2008 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 7:30 PM Tom Mattox, Tommy Gaffney & Lisa Steinman July 2008 Wednesday, July 16, 2008 @ 7:30 PM James Grabill and dan raphael June 2008 Windfall: A Journal of Place A reading featuring Barbara Drake, Katy McKinney, Michael McDowell & Bill Siverly May 2008 Tim Schell May 15, 2008 Carl Reisman and Ron Talney Download PDF May 6, 2008 Seven Poets: Maureen Alsop, Dean Gorman, Jamalieh Haley, Ron Klassnik, Kelly Lenox, Annie Lighthart & Lauren Rusk Download PDF April 2008 Matt Love and Carla Perry Download PDF March 2008 B.T. 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