Sage Said So

Barnes & Noble Reading Series presents Diane Averill, Casey Bush and Carla Perry

When: Wednesday, August 20, 7:00 p.m.

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

Diane Averill is the author of Branches Doubled Over With Fruit (1991) and Beautiful Obstacles (1998), both finalists for Oregon Book Awards. Her work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including CALYX, Tar River Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Carnegie-Mellon Anthology of Poetry, and, most recently, Deer Drink the Moon: An Anthology of Native Poems by Oregon Writers. Her third chapbook, For All That Remains, was published in May 2007. She teaches at Clackamas Community College when she isn't hiking trails in the Columbia Gorge or the Olympic Peninsula.

Casey Bush is a senior editor of The Bear Deluxe Magazine and an Irradiated Poet. His most recent collection is “Poems of the Bush Administration: Free Speech in a Season of Fascism” (2008, Unimpressed Press).

Carla Perry is the founder of the nonprofit Writers On The Edge and the Nye Beach Writers' Series, now in its 12th year; 300 authors have been featured thus far. For her “outstanding contributions to Oregon's literary life,” Perry received the Stewart Holbrook Special Award at the Oregon Book Awards, an Oregon State Governor's Art Award, and numerous literary fellowships and residencies. She also was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop with a BA in Creative Writing/Poetry. Her poetry, essays, interviews, and short stories have been published widely. Her photos of people, mostly writers, have won awards and been used in numerous publications. She is the owner of Dancing Moon Press, a book production company.

Hosted by: Sage Cohen

July 16: B&N features Katharine Salzmann, Willa Schneberg and Matt Schumacher

Barnes & Noble Reading Series is delighted to present poets Katharine Salzmann, Willa Schneberg and Matt Schumacher.

When: Wednesday, July 16, 7:00 p.m.

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

Hosted by: Sage Cohen

Katharine Salzmann's first chapbook of poetry Hemopoiesis was published by persian pony press in 1995. The Oregonian says of her work, "Human limitation and the apparent schism between mind and matter are absent here . . . Sensual, sensuous, refusing the either-or categories of Western rationality, this is a poet who apprehends the world in its wholeness, its gift, and gives it back in kind."  Her most recent chapbook of poetry Prayer Ceremony was published by persian pony press in 2007. She lives with her daughter and works as a massage therapist in Portland.

Willa Schneberg received the Oregon Book Award In Poetry for her second collection In The Margins of The World. A poem was published in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection, St. Martin's Press. Her third collection of poetry, Storytelling In Cambodia, was published by Calyx Books, (2006). Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review, Rosebud and Exquisite Corpse.  She has presented her work at the Library of Congress, Wordstock, and will be a guest poet at the Montana Festival of the Book later this year.

Matt Schumacher lives in Eastern Oregon, where the natives revere the flavorful huckleberry. His first collection of poetry, Spilling the Moon, made its debut in March 2008, and his poems have recently appeared/will soon appear in ZYZZYVA, Green Mountains Review, and Portland Review. A second project, Fire Diary, has chapbook-sized and full-length versions in the works, both of which feature dastardly but very charismatic pyromaniac impulses.

A Cup of Comfort anthology series reading and book signing

When: Wednesday, June 25, 7:00 p.m.

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

What:
A Cup of Comfort is a bestselling anthology (book) series featuring uplifting true stories about the experiences and relationships that inspire and enrich our lives. These slice-of-life stories are written by people from all walks of life and provide unique personal insights into powerful universal truths.

This reading and book signing event, hosted by the Barnes & Noble Reading Series, will feature authors from the four most recent releases:

Cup of Comfort for Writers
Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers
Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers
Cup of Comfort for Horse Lovers

Readers will include Sharyn Bolton, Sage Cohen, LouAnn Edwards, Lori Maliszewski,  Minnette Meador, Kimila Kay Setzer, Valetta Smith, Deanna Stollar, Samantha Waltz, and series editor Colleen Sell.

We'd love to see you there!

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.

April 16: Brittany Baldwin, Sean Patrick Hill and Barbara LaMorticella read at B&N

On April 16, in celebration of National Poetry Month, Barnes & Noble Reading Series will feature Brittany Baldwin, Sean Patrick Hill and Barbara LaMorticella. I love these poets, and so will you!

When: Wednesday, April 16, 7:00 p.m.

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

Hosted by: Sage Cohen

Brittany Baldwin grew up in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado. She moved to Portland five years ago because she writes better on cloudy days. She has read on KBOO’s Talking Earth, was featured at the Silverton Poetry Festival 2006 and 2007 and has published in numerous local zines. In November 2005 she published her first collection of poetry, Broken Knuckles Against Knives Cutting The Food To Feed Me Through This.

Sean Patrick Hill is a writer and teacher. He graduated with a MA from Portland State University in 2006, where he won the Burnham Graduate Award. Sean was also awarded a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council in 2007 and residencies to the Montana Artists Refuge and Fishtrap. His work has appeared recently in Windfall, The Bear Deluxe, Hipfish and High Desert Journal.

Barbara LaMorticella hosts "Talking Earth," a regular poetry program on KBOO in Portland.  Her second collection of poems, Rain on Waterless Mountain, was a finalist for the Oregon Book  Award.  In 2005 she won the Stewart Holbrook Award for Outstanding Contribution to Oregon Literary Life. She lives in the hills outside Portland.

March 19: Black Lamb columnists featured at B & N reading series

The March Barnes & Noble Lloyd Center reading series will feature a night of essays with Black Lamb columnists.

When: Wednesday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.

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

The evening will be hosted by Terry Ross, editor of Black Lamb. Featured readers include: Sage Cohen, Cate Garrison, Ed Goldberg, Cervine Kauffman and David Maclaine.

Black Lamb was created to offer the discerning reader a stimulating selection of excellent original writing. Published monthly, Black Lamb is a literate rather than a literary publication. Regular columns by writers in a variety of geographic locations and vocations are supplemented by features, articles on books and authors, and a selection of “departments,” including an acerbic advice column, a bridge column, and a devilish cryptic crossword.

Barnes & Noble Reading Series: February 20

You won't want to miss Kristy Athens, Shanna Germain and Lara Triback reading at the Barnes & Noble Lloyd Center Reading Series!

When: Wednesday, February 20, 7:00 p.m.

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

Who:

Kristy Athens is a freelance writer and editor who writes short-short fiction from a small farm near Husum, Washington. She has been a visiting writer at Hood River Community Education, Mt. Hood Community College, Write Around Portland and Writers in the Schools, and served on the boards of Northwest Writers, Inc. and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. From 1999 to 2006, she ran the Oregon Book Awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships programs of Literary Arts. Her work has been published in a number of magazines, newspapers and literary journals, including Poor Mojo’s Alamanc(k) and forthcoming in Two Gyrlz Quarterly. 

Shanna Germain is a poet by nature, a short story writer by the skin of her teeth, and a novelist in training. Except for writing, drinking mochas and laughing too loudly in public places, she has no real talents. Her writing has appeared in places like Absinthe Literary Review, Best American Erotica, Tipton Poetry Review, VoiceCatcher and Salon.

Lara Triback spent six months in Buenos Aires, Argentina immersed in the tango subculture on a personal quest for connection, ecstasy, adventure, and “the perfect dance.” Her essay, "Three Minutes of Freedom," a tribute to her tango journey, appears in Go Your Own Way, an anthology of writings by solo women travelers, published by Seal Press. Her story illuminates why tango, once it gets in the blood, can be as relentless, rich, humbling and beautiful as falling in love.

Barnes & Noble Reading Series: January 17

The Barnes & Noble Reading Series I host is up and at 'em again on Thursday, January 17! (Normally, readings are on the third Wednesday of the month; B&N shifted us a day later this month.)

What:

Sadie Kohler, Tomas Mattox and Melissa Sillitoe featured at the Barnes & Noble Reading Series, hosted by Sage Cohen.

When:
Thursday, January 17, 7:00 p.m.

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

Who:

Sadie Kohler's goal is to make poetry a part of every person's life she meets, no matter what their background, education, or inclinations. She will be reading from her latest project, Polyphony, a city-wide collaborative poem drawing inspiration and contributions from the people of Portland. For a glimpse of the poem and artwork, go to http://cocoon-3.blogspot.com.

In 2005, Tomas Mattox jumped in his car and meandered from Minneapolis to Portland. He began writing fiction the very first day here. A few months later he began spontaneously writing poetry. Tom enjoys the creative vibe in Portland and is very at home in our writing community.

Melissa Sillitoe's poems have been published in THE BROKEN WORD ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2, an anthology of local poets, and also in THE CHRISTIAN RADICAL, THE WEST VIEW, NETWORK, and SINE CERA. She moved to Portland in 2005, in search of grey skies. She reads regularly at local open mics and lives at Everett Station Lofts, an artspace building in Old Town.

Next Barnes & Noble Reading October 17

What:
Local legends Lane Browning, Leanne Grabel and Doug Marx read at Barnes & Noble at the Lloyd Center, hosted by Sage Cohen.

When:
Wednesday, October 17, 7:00 p.m.

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

Who:

Lane Browning has published numerous essays, investigative pieces, short stories, poetry, humor, and interviews in periodicals including The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Oregonian, Portland Tribune, New Woman, OMNI, California Today, Cosmopolitan, Portland magazine, USAir, Rain City Review, and Reader's Digest. For more than seven years she was a columnist with Willamette Week; her feature, "Whiplash," was the paper's most popular entry and was syndicated nationally. She has also edited books, articles, and documents both for large organizations and individuals. She taught fiction classes for Oregon Writers Workshop and the Mountain Writers Center in Portland.

Leanne Grabel is the author of numerous books of poetry and illustrated poetry, including Short Poems by a Short Person, Anne Sexton Was a Sexpot, Flirtations, and Lonesome and Very Quarrelsome Heroes. Grabel’s poetry-based theatrical shows “One Woman Shoe,” “The Circus of Anguish and Mirth,” “Anger: The Musical,” and “The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression,” have been performed on various Portland stages. Grabel graduated from Stanford University, has just finished an autobiographical novel entitled Rape Sandwich, and is beginning work on a performance piece about her students.

Doug Marx's poems have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Willow Springs, Hubbub, Takeout and many other publications. His chapbook Sufficiency was an Oregon Book Award finalist in poetry. Family man and musician, when he's not on stage in some local dive he can often be found at $3/$6 hold 'em poker tables in one casino or another, living the sportin' life.

  

Barnes & Noble Reading Series Inaugural Event: September 19

The Barnes & Noble poetry reading series' inaugural event will be held on Wednesday, September 19. Hosted by yours truly, the evening will feature three of the Pacific Northwest's finest poets: Don Colburn, Paulann Petersen and margareta waterman.

EVENT DETAILS

Wednesday, September 19, 7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble at the Lloyd Center, gift section
1317 Lloyd Center
Portland, OR 97232
503-249-0800

Subsequent events will be held on the third Wednesdays of every month, 7:00 p.m.

ABOUT THE POETS

Don Colburn lives in Portland, where he is a health reporter for The Oregonian. Two collections of his poetry won national contests and were published in 2006. His chapbook, Another Way to Begin, won the Finishing Line Press Prize, and his first full-length book, As If Gravity Were a Theory, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. Colburn has an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, The Nation, Ploughshares and Poetry Northwest and won the Discovery/The Nation Award. Twice he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He worked for many years at The Washington Post and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He is a board member of the Friends of William Stafford. For more information: www.doncolburn.net

Paulann Petersen’s work has appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Calyx, and the Internet’s Poetry Daily. A collection of her poems, The Wild Awake, was published by Confluence Press in 2002; Quiet Lion Press published Blood-Silk, a volume of her poems about Turkey, in 2004; and a third collection, A Bride of Narrow Escape from Cloudbank Books in 2006, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she was the recipient of the 2006 Literary Arts Stewart Holbrook Award for Outstanding Contributions to Oregon’s Literary Life. She serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the January Stafford Birthday Events.

margareta waterman is author of 23 published books, most recently iteration, a retrospective volume celebrating 30 years of poetry. always innovative, publisher for many colleagues, producer of poetry videos and countless evenings of abstract theatre, waterman has been an influential participant in poetry worlds since 1987. she has never left an audience unmoved.