Mountain Writers Series

Press Club

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, at 2621 S.E. Clinton.

June 2008

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 @ 7:30 PM

Readings from Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place

Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place - Spring 2008
Featuring:
Barbara Drake
Michael McDowell
Katy McKinney
Bill Siverly

July 2008

James Grabill and dan raphael

James Grabill’s poems have appeared in numerous periodicals such as Willow Springs, Poetry East, Ur Vox, Field, East West Journal, and The Common Review.  His recent books of poems are October Wind (Sage Hill Press, 2006) and An Indigo Scent after the Rain (Lynx House Press, 2003), and he has two collections of creative nonfiction, Finding the Top of the Sky (Lost Horse Press, 2005) and Through the Green Fire (Holy Cow! Press, 1995).  He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches writing, literature (Beat Lit, Creative Nonfiction, & Shakespeare), and sustainability.

dan raphael performs his poetry throughout the Northwest, in places like Wordstock, Burning Word, Powell's Books, Portland Jazz Festival and Broadway Books. His most recent books are Breath Test and Showing Light a Good Time. Current poems appear in Stringtown, Otoliths, Skidrow Penthouse, Refined Savage and Satellite Telephone.

August 2008

Tommy Gaffney [not pictured], Lisa Steinman
and Tom Mattox

Tommy Gaffney hosts the weekly open mike Mondays at Tony's Tavern on West Burnside. His work has appeared in Broken Word, Equinox, Zygote in my Coffee, Refined Savage and under the east end of the Morrison Bridge, among other places.

Lisa M. Steinman is the author of two books about poetry, Made In America (Yale UP, 1987) and Masters of Repetition (St. Martin’s, 1998); four volumes of poetry — Lost Poems (Ithaca House, 1976); All That Comes To Light (Arrowood, 1989); A Book Of Other Days (Arrowood, 1993) and Carslaw’s Sequence (University of Tampa Press, 2003) -— as well as a poetry chapbook, Ordinary Songs (26 Books, 1996). Winner of the Oregon Book Award for All That Comes to Light in 1993, her work has also received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among other places. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Notre Dame Review, Chariton Review, Prairie Schooner, Chicago Review, Epoch, Michigan Quarterly, Boulevard, Threepenny Review, The Massachusetts Review and Quarterly West. She co-edits the poetry magazine, Hubbub.

Tom Mattox is an occasional writer and poet. He is the creator of the Portland Project website and the Living Fiction Workshop. Starting in September, he will be the guest host of the Lloyd Center Barnes and Noble reading series on second Wednesdays.

Please note that this reading will begin at 7:00 PM

September 2008

Matthew Dickman

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (2008 APR/Honickman First book prize published through APR and Copper Canyon Press) as well as two chapbooks: Amigos ( Q-Avenue Press, 2007) and Something About a Black Scarf (Azul Press, 2008). He has been a recipient of fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Boston Review, and The New Yorker among others. He works and lives in Portland, Oregon. 

October 2008