May 21: Emily Kendal Frey, Christopher Luna and Toni Partington read at B&N

On May 21, Barnes & Noble Reading Series is delighted to present three oh-so-fabulous poets: Emily Kendal Frey, Christopher Luna and Toni Partington.

When: Wednesday, May 21, 7:00 p.m.

Where:
Barnes & Noble
1317 Lloyd Center // Gift section
Portland, OR 97232
503-249-0800

Hosted by: Sage Cohen

Emily Kendal Frey recently relocated to Portland after many years in Boston. She has work forthcoming in Word For/Word, Spinning Jenny, Knock and Octopus. She is also at work on collaborative projects with the poets Sarah Bartlett and Zachary Schomburg. Poems born of these collaborations are forthcoming from Bat City Review, horse less press, Portland Review (with Sarah Bartlett), Diode and Pilot (with Zachary Schomburg).

Christopher Luna is a poet and collage artist with an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He hosts a monthly open-mic poetry reading in Vancouver, WA. Luna’s poetry has appeared in The Lion Speaks: An Anthology for Hurricane Katrina, eye-rhyme, Exquisite Corpse, and the @tached document. Chapbooks include tributes and ruminations and On the Beam (with David Madgalene). Luna is the author of Literal Motion, featuring three interviews with filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and is editing the correspondence of Brakhage and Michael McClure.

Toni Partington is a writer who lives and works in Vancouver, WA. She has been a featured reader at the Vancouver Barnes and Noble Poetry Series, received an Honorable Mention in the Oregon State Poet’s Association 2007 Spring Awards, and won first place in the 2007 Washougal Library Poetry Contest in the adult category. Her work has been published in the NW Women's Journal and the 2007 anthology: Selected Poems of the River Poets' Society.