Showing posts with label Readings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Readings. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Dear all,
This
is a hearty invitation to join us on Thursday, October 17 @ 1:00 - 2:20
NSH206 for a poetry reading by Danny Earl Simmons. Dan is a local
poet, a friend of the LBCC Poetry Club, and an active member of the
Albany Civic Theater. His poems have been published in a variety of
presses including Big River Poetry Review, Grey Sparrow, Northwind, and Strong Verse. This reading in part celebrates his new collection: Dancing the Allergic Swim.
Join us! And please invite your students (if you'd like more info please contact me).
Here's one of Dan's poems from Dancing:
Poet
He was always the kid who stayed up late
after marshmallows and scary stories.
He'd sit there for hours, entranced
by the deepest red of the campfire,
soaking-in the heat. He'd watch sparks
escape and turn into stars against the black
mountain sky like red-hot secrets taking flight.
Before long, he'd find himself huddled
against the edge, eyes burning,
overcome by the heat of the moment,
focused on nothing but the wiggle of the flames
and the wavy hot glow of the smolder.
Monday, October 7, 2013
From the Corvallis-Gazette Times:
"Writer Nick Flynn will read from his work on Friday, Oct.
11, at Oregon State University’s Valley Library rotunda. The free public
event begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer
session and a book signing.
Flynn is the author of three memoirs, including “The Reenactments” (2013), “The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment” (2010) and “Another B———— Night in Suck City” (2004). Flynn is also the author of three books of poetry.
Of Flynn’s most recent memoir, “The Reenactments,” Kirkus Reviews wrote: “Flynn’s determination to better understand his life through the act of writing and remembering has yielded a truly insightful, original work.” Clea Simon of The Boston Globe said Flynn’s writing is “always specific and honest” and “dryly funny.”
His award-winning memoir “Another B———— Night in Suck City” was turned into the movie “Being Flynn,” starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano. That book recounted his unusual relationship with his alcoholic father and the suicide of his mother.
Flynn, 52, lives most of the year near Brooklyn. He is married to actress Lili Taylor. Each spring, he teaches poetry through the creative writing department at the University of Houston.
Flynn has been awarded fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Library of Congress, The Amy Lowell Trust, and The Fine Arts Work Center.
The Visiting Writers Series brings nationally known writers to Oregon State University. The program is made possible by support from The Valley Library, OSU Press, the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film, the College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele, and Grass Roots Books and Music."
Flynn is the author of three memoirs, including “The Reenactments” (2013), “The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment” (2010) and “Another B———— Night in Suck City” (2004). Flynn is also the author of three books of poetry.
Of Flynn’s most recent memoir, “The Reenactments,” Kirkus Reviews wrote: “Flynn’s determination to better understand his life through the act of writing and remembering has yielded a truly insightful, original work.” Clea Simon of The Boston Globe said Flynn’s writing is “always specific and honest” and “dryly funny.”
His award-winning memoir “Another B———— Night in Suck City” was turned into the movie “Being Flynn,” starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano. That book recounted his unusual relationship with his alcoholic father and the suicide of his mother.
Flynn, 52, lives most of the year near Brooklyn. He is married to actress Lili Taylor. Each spring, he teaches poetry through the creative writing department at the University of Houston.
Flynn has been awarded fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Library of Congress, The Amy Lowell Trust, and The Fine Arts Work Center.
The Visiting Writers Series brings nationally known writers to Oregon State University. The program is made possible by support from The Valley Library, OSU Press, the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film, the College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele, and Grass Roots Books and Music."
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Events are coming your way!
This Friday, April 19th at 7:30 p.m. join the LBCC English Department in their annual fundraiser for the English Endowment. There's going to be readings, music, food, no-host bar... ;)
NEXT Friday, April 26th at 7:00 p.m. come riot your words with LBCC Student Leadership Council, LBCC Benton Center, and LBCC Poetry Club at WordMOB! There's going to be silly amounts of fabulous local poets and artists, and an open mic for you, too!
Wednesday, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. Oregon State University's Kathleen Dean Moore and Rachelle McCabe will dazzle you with words and music and music and words and music and
it's
bound
to be
spectacular!
CLICK HERE for more details!
Hope to see you there!
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Hello one and all! Thanks to one of our lovely poets, Jeff, we now have a compiled list of poetry readings that will take place this year, all the way through May. I'm sure they're bound to be thrilling, so take a look!
Readings, Spring 2013
February
Friday, Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Literary Northwest Series reading:
Karen Holmberg
(poetry)
The Valley Library
Rotunda
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2:00 p.m.
Author reading
and signing: Tom Titus, from his new collection Blackberries in July: A
Forager’s Field Guide to Inner Peace (essays)
Grass Roots Books
and Music, 227 SW 2nd, Corvallis
Saturday, Feb. 9, 2:00
p.m.
Poetry Reading: What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems
Charles Goodrich,
Donna Henderson, Claudia Lapp, Kathryn Ridall, and Tim Whitsel
Grass Roots Books
and Music, 227 SW 2nd, Corvallis
Friday, Feb. 15, 7:30
p.m.
Oregon State
University Visiting Writers Series: Paisley Rekdal (poetry and essays)
The Valley Library Rotunda
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading:
Constance Eggers, from her chapbook Reliquary
Grass Roots Books
and Music, 227 SW 2nd, Corvallis
March
Saturday, March 2, 7:00
p.m.
Author Event: A Natural History of Now (essays) and These Mountains that Separate Us (poetry)
Readers include
Rick Borsten, David Oates, Adrienne Ross, Bette Husted, Pamela Steel, M.E.
Hope, Charles Goodrich, and Erik Muller
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave.
April
Thursday, April 4,
7:30 p.m.
Oregon State
University Visiting Writers Series: Mike Rich (screenwriting)
LaSells Stewart Center Construction & Engineering Hall
Friday, April 19,
7:30 p.m.
Oregon State
University Visiting Writers Series: Dawn Raffel (fiction and memoir)
The Valley Library Rotunda
May
Friday, May 10, 7:30
p.m.
Oregon State
University Visiting Writers Series: Antonya Nelson & Robert Boswell
(fiction)
The Valley Library Rotunda
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