Oregon Literary Review celebrates the state's 150th birthday on March 4, hosting a reading from Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon's Sesquicentennial Anthology. Edited by Matt Love, the book contains original essays by Oregon writers and excerpts from historical documents.
Join OLR at First Wednesdays at Blackbird Wine Shop, with readings by Evelyn Sharenov and Joanna Rose and performance by Kate Mann. Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th off Fremont, 7-9pm.
What of the book itself? In Willamette Week, Matt Buckingham writes, "Think of this as Uncle Matt’s Bathroom Reader of Oregon History," while Love's former student, contributor Erick Mertz writes on his Semi-urban Cartography blog, "When Matt Love sets out to memorialize Oregon, he does so with ardent grace." It should make for an interesting read either way, featuring contributors such as our own Nora Robertson, producer of the forthcoming New Oregon Interview Series, along with Kim Stafford, Monica Drake, Walt Curtis, Joanna Rose, Erin Ergenbright, Ken Babbs, and many others.
