OREGON LITERARY REVIEW READING: First Wednesday
2GQ director/editor/etceterator Tiffany Lee Brown will read June 4, along with Matt Love, Leah Stenson, and Caitlin Clark.
Blackbird Wineshop and Oregon Literary Review
co-host an evening of readings, performances and video on the first
Wednesday of every month, 7-9pm. Blackbird Wineshop is at 3519 NE 44th
(off Fremont).503-282-1887.
Blackbird Wineshop and Oregon Literary Review co-host an evening of readings, performances and video on the first Wednesday of every month, 7-9pm. Blackbird Wineshop is at 3519 NE 44th (off Fremont).503-282-1887. The lineup for Wednesday, June 4, 2008, is Matt Love, Leah Stenson, Tiffany Lee Brown and Caitlin Clark.
About the artists:
Matt Love is the founder and publisher of Nestucca Spit Press author/editor of the Beaver State Trilogy: Grasping Wastrels vs. Beaches Forever Inc.: Covering the Fights for the Soul of the Oregon Coast (2003), The Far Out Story of Vortex I (2004), Red Hot and Rollin’: A Retrospection of the Portland Trail Blazers’ 1976-77 Championship Season (2007) and also Let it Pour (www.letitpour.net). He lives at the Oregon Coast and teaches English and history in the Lincoln County School District.
After working as an editor in New York City, Leah Stenson spent 16 years in Tokyo teaching English and raising a family. Since moving to Oregon, where she worked for three years as the managing director of Oregon Peace Institute, she has been doing editorial work for a Buddhist organization based in Japan and writing poetry and memoir. Her poems have appeared in The Oregonian, the Clackamas County Weekly, The Portland Alliance, Raising Our Voices: Oregon Poets against the War, Lalitamba, NW Women’s Journal, Horizon and Friends of William Stafford: A Newsletter for Poets and Poetry. The William Stafford Institute published her chapbook East/West in 2005.
Tiffany Lee Brown (www.magdalen.com) integrates various artistic and literary media to explore relationship, ritual, the American West, and the meaning of home. Author of A Compendium of Miniatures (Tiger Food Press, 2007) she co-edits PLAZM magazine and is the editor/director of 2GQ. She has performed for Wordstock, PICA, Performance Works NW, and the Enteractive Language Festival; her writing appears in Utne, Bookforum, Tin House, Portland Monthly, Wired, and Bust, among others. Most recently, her music and spoken word pieces appeared on the compilations Women Take Back the Noise and the newest CD from Gargoyle, a literary journal.
Caitlin Clark obtained a M.A. in Writing: Poetry from PSU in 2007. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and cat.
I will try to make it--it's hard when it costs $25 in gas every time I come into Portland!
Posted by: Kristy | May 13, 2008 at 08:10 PM
I will try to make it--it's hard when it costs $25 in gas every time I come into Portland!
Posted by: Kristy | May 13, 2008 at 08:09 PM