Events and Readings

CURRENT AND SOON:

MAY 2010:

 Tuesday 4th:  BROADWAY BOOKS sponsors this reading: 7:00. 1714 Northeast Broadway (Portland, OR 97232)
(503) 284-1726
 

UPCOMING MONTHS:

July 26-30, 2010: MRCSE (Midwest Regional Collaborative for Sustainable Education) in Wisconsin will be the setting for a new workshop “Daylighting the Invisible.”

 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. Not a What We Love event but 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 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.