Broadway Review April 2011

Broadway Review April 2011 APRIL EVENTS Monday, April 11th, at 7 pm – We are happy to be hosting a panel of Jewish Writers. Poet David Biespiel (The Book of Men and Women; Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces), non-fiction writer Elinor Langer (Josephine Herbst; A Hundred Little Hitlers) and novelist Scott Nadelson (The Cantor’s Daughter; Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories) will be here to read from their work and discuss what it means to be a Jewish writer and/or whether this is even a good question. Roger Porter of the Reed College English Department will moderate the discussion. Tuesday, April 19th, at 7pm – Poet Jim Moore will be here to read from his new book, Invisible Strings, recently published by Graywolf Press. Moore is the author of six previous books of poetry and has received numerous awards and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, The Loft, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He teaches at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and at The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, as well as online through the University of Minnesota Split Rock Arts Program. “Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself.” – C.K. Williams Thursday, April 21st, at 7pm – Continuing our monthly series, “Comma,” we are excited to have both John Daniel and Ehud Havazelet. Daniel’s most recent book, The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature published by Counterpoint is a finalist for the 2010/11 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction. The author of nine books of poetry, essays, and a memoir, Daniel has won the 2006 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award as well as two Oregon Book Awards and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Havazelet is the author of two story collections and most recently the novel, Bearing the Body, which won the Oregon Book Award for fiction in 2008. Recent work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Tin House and The New York Times. Daniel and Havazelet met in the mid-1980s when they were both Stegner Fellows/Jones Lecturers at Stanford University. Tuesday, April 26th, at 7pm – Local poet John Sibley Williams will be joined by fellow poets and musicians A. Molotkov, Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk, David Cooke and Ragon Linde for a special night of both contemporary poetry and worldly, experimental music. Williams’ poetry was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize and won the 2011 Heart Poetry Award. His debut chapbook, A Pure River, was published in 2010 by The Last Automat Press. Molotkov is a writer, composer and co-founder of the Inflectionist poetry movement (Inflecionism.com). He is the author of several novels, short stories, and poetry collections and is the winner of the 2010 New Millennium Writings and the 2008 E.M. Koeppel Awards for fiction. Tkaczyk has recently finished her second book, Only Ghosts, about the clash of the mystic and the modern in Nepal. Cooke’s debut poem “Edges” won the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and was nominated for the 2010 Pushcart prize. Linde is a musician specializing in eclectic jazz and has played in a wide range of musical groups over the last 35 years. APRIL POETRY SALE April is National Poetry Month, and consequently we get a bit potty for poems during this time. For the entire month, our entire poetry section is on sale! Here’s the deal: buy one book of poetry at regular price, and you’ll get a second volume of poetry (of equal or lesser value) for HALF PRICE. Repeat as desired, all month long. Don’t you deserve a few new books of verse? Or twelve? LAST CALL FOR MAILING LIST CUSTOMERS. DO YOU WANT TO KEEP RECEIVING THIS NEWSLETTER? This newsletter is one of our favorite ways to communicate, but we want to eliminate names and/or addresses that are out of date. 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Good news that Literary Arts moved the award ceremony to spring! It is much nicer to celebrate Oregon’s authors this time of year rather than in the fall, when so many other activities crowd everyone’s schedule. More than 200 books were nominated for this year’s awards, and that list was trimmed to thirty finalists. We’ll be there to help with the celebration by selling books in the lobby of the theatre. For more information and to purchase tickets, go to www.literary-arts.org. Hope to see you there! PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND OR PERMIT NO 299 CURRENT RESIDENT OR: .

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