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Readings & Events About Town
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
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 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.
November 2011
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
Friday, November 4, 7:30 PM
The First Unitarian Church
1011 SW 12th, Portland, OR
Tickets: $12
Book-signing reception following performance
will be held at Cassidy's Restaurant & Bar,
1331 SW Washington, Portland.
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 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.
Sunday, November 20, 3:30 PM
Vern Rutsala & Jim Shugrue: A Poetry Reading
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
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 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.
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