June 3 First Wednesdays Reading

Come join me for a night of wine and poetry!

 

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, Portland.

On June 3, from 7-9 pm, I’ll be reading with Katharine Salzmann, Judith Barrington, and Mike Daily.

Of Katharine Salzmann’s first book Hemopoiesis (persian
pony press, 1995) the Oregonian said, “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 newest chapbook, Prayer
Ceremony, was published by persian pony press in December 2007. Her
poems have appeared in Windfall, The Santa Fe Literary Review,
Fireweed, Take Out, Sojourner & most recently, the online Salt River
Review. Katharine works as a massage therapist & lives in Portland
with her sweetheart & her beloved daughter.

Judith Barrington is a poet and memoirist who has published three
collections of poetry, a prize-winning memoir, and a text on writing
literary memoir which is used all across the United States and in
Australia and Europe. Her most recent poetry is collected in a
chapbook, Lost Lands, winner of the 2008 Robin Becker Chapbook Award.
Her most recent full length book is Horses and the Human Soul about
which reviewer Barbara Drake, writing in Calyx, said: “These stunning
poems find moral high ground in the world of nature and animals
without falsifying that world.”

Her memoir, Lifesaving, won the Lambda Book Award and was a finalist
for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. She is
well known as a writer and much sought-after as a teacher. She is a
faculty member of the low-residency program at the University of
Alaska at Anchorage and a web mentor for the University of Minnesota.
She offers workshops at many conferences and writing events in the
U.S. as well as in England and Spain.

Mike Daily is a novelist and recording artist who occasionally
performs his work in Portland, Oregon. He was vocalist for the
innovative fiction rock band, O’GRADY. His second book ALARM (2007;
issued with two CDs) carries on the first-person narratives of Mick
O’Grady, introduced in Daily’s first published novel, Valley (1998).
Watch YouTube videos from shows at Ash Street Saloon, Disjecta
Gallery, Someday Lounge and other venues, and read the O’GRADY blog at
http://www.mickogrady.blogspot.com. Daily writes a poem a day at http://www.mrvicedhonest.wordpress.com as participant
in TheUndeniables.org writers’ workshop.