Events and Readings
CURRENT AND SOON
OCTOBER 2011:
Tuesday 4th: City Limits discussion with “Dill Pickle Book Club” – 6:00 Waypost Coffee (3120 N. Williams at Fargo). Bring questions/insights about what makes for good city living. Is Portland managing it?
Saturday 8th: WORDSTOCK – find me at the Oregon Writers Colony table from 3:00-5:00.
Saturday 29th:
WALT WHITMAN 150 CELEBRATION - RECONNECTION. Come enjoy a pint – and see the DVD of our remarkable performance one year ago. LUCKY LABRADOR (915 SE Hawthorne) 6:30-10:00. I’m making a special broadside: WALT WHITMAN SUPPORTS OCCUPY WALL STREET. Insurrectionary poetry!
NOVEMBER 2011:
Wednesday 9th: I’ll be talking to Ethan Seltzer’s Urban Planning class at PSU about City Limits and related topics. 10:00-12:30.
UPCOMING MONTHS
I’ve cut back teaching/speaking to work on StealHead. . . but a few more events are likely to appear.
ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS MONTHS
SEPTEMBER 2009
Monday 28th: AHA! (Alling Henning Associates, Inc.) – Vancouver, WA – a lunch-hour talk on creative process and natural inspiration. Should be fun to connect with these word-hungry “marketing and communications” folks.
OCTOBER 2009
Saturday 11th: Wordstock (Oregon Convention Center) – I’ll be at the Oregon Writer’s Colony (OWC) table 2:00 – 3:00. New books on display! Sunday 12th: Wordstock – OWC table 5:00 – 6:00.
Sunday 25th: Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe (45 S State St, Lake Oswego, OR (503) 697-7097) – Reading at 6:30 in a nice, intimate environment. Come hear one or two of the sweet, sharp essays this collection is built on. And have a truffle!
NOVEMBER 2009
Thursday 5th: Rilassi Reading Series – 7:00 – a South Waterfront event not to miss – in the always-interesting new downtown condo neighborhood on the Willamette, where the streetcar comes to the base of the Aerial Tram. Rilassi Coffeehouse and Tea, 3580 SW River Parkway, Portland.
Wednesday 11th: St. Johns Booksellers – 7:30 – for a two-barreled reading! New work-in-progress from my nonfiction novel StealHead (with thanks to a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant). And selections from What We Love Will Save Us. Find this beautiful neighborhood bookstore at 8622 N. Lombard (in St. Johns of course) – phone 503-283-0032.
Thursday 19th: 12:00 – Columbia Writers Series, Clark College (Vancouver, Washington) in the Cannell Room of the Library. Again reading from my nonfiction novel work-in-progress StealHead (with thanks to a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant). And selections from What We Love Will Save Us.
Monday 15th: OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA at McMenamin’s CORNELIUS PASS ROADHOUSE. I’ll talk about my OR ENCY entry (on the UGB) and read a few selections from here and there – then we’ll have a pint and talk about the encyclopedia project and… whatever! 4045 N.W. Cornelius Pass Rd., Hillsboro.
JANUARY 2010
Saturday 9th: Poetry in Honor of William Stafford. A good opportunity to hear several poets. We’ll read some of our own work and some of Stafford’s. Other featured readers: Co-hosts Bill Siverly and Michael McDowell, Robert Davies, Melanie Green, Donna Henderson. 2-4 pm, Tigard Public Library, 13500 SW Hall Blvd. Thursday 21st: CLAY
Thursday 21st: CLAY STREET/GREEN STREET: a workshop with public artist Linda Wysong to develop a “path to the river” along a SE neighborhood street. This is the art part of a City street makeover. I’ll be guiding interested citizens in imagining good city spaces. OMSI Auditorium 5:30-7:00.
Monday 25th: CITY CLUB OF PORTLAND/Citizens Read book club: 6:00 – 7:30 at the Gerding Theater (old Armory building). What We Love is this month’s City Club book selection, offering a chance to connect with some of Portland’s most energetic and dedicated citizens. We’ll have a nice freewheeling talk about some of the book’s topics: good urban spaces; being citizens (not just consumers); keeping heart in a political and spiritual landscape that often seems pointless and ugly. City Club members only. Gerding Theater is at 128 NW Eleventh Avenue.
FEBRUARY 2010
Tuesday 16th: OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA sponsors this McMinamin’s CORNELIUS PASS ROADHOUSE conversation about the Encyclopedia project. I’ll read something related to my entry (on the UGB) about aspiration and citizenry. Then we’ll have a pint and talk about… whatever! 6:30-8:30. 4045 N.W. Cornelius Pass Rd., Hillsboro.
MAY 2010
Tuesday 4th: Reading at Broadway Books: 7:00. I’ll read from What We Love Will Save Us, answer questions, gab and mingle. Come join us! Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway (Portland 97232) 503-284-1726
JULY 2010
July 26-30: Midwest Regional Collaborative for Sustainable Education (MRCSE). I’ll be offering readings and the workshop Daylighting the Invisible.
2011
January 2011
Sunday 16th: Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe (45 S State St, Lake Oswego, OR (503) 697-7097) – Reading at 6:30 in honor of William Stafford, with Portland poet John Sibley Williams. Have a truffle!
February – May 2011: Pont-Aven (Brittany) France – offering writing workshops at PASCA Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, while working on my nonfiction novel StealHead in the tranquillity of this tiny village.
March 2011: Rennes (Brittany) France: “RENDITION” [visual-art presentation of themes from essay]. Institute Franco-Americaine gallery.
May 7: READING/LECTURE at Caf’e du Centre, Pont-Aven (France). 7:00. A presentation (in English) of new work from StealHead project.
June 2011
June 26-28: Workshop “DAYLIGHTING THE INVISIBLE.” MRCSE 2011 UnConference. (Ashland, Wisconsin).
June 28: “Imagine: Each Other. . .” a short talk in the big regional Chautauqua tent: Wisconsin annual “PIE AND POLITICS” (Chautauqua Big Top) 7:00.