He also serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Four Way Review and Digital Media Editor and Web Consultant at Obsidian Journal. His debut collection of poems, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon Press), comes out this May. Wilson, who is not only an acclaimed poet he’s also a game designer with Resilient Game Studios. Wilson on Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love at the 2019 AWP Bookfair Amy Poehler's Paper Kite Productions optioned the novel for a potential TV series last December. PBS Books chatted with Chicago-based author Rebecca Makkai, whose third novel won both the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Stonewall Book Award. Okay, we ran out of room! But we still have more recommendations! AWP Kickoff Reading w/Kimberly King Parsons, Chelsea Bieker, and more.Portland, Oregon | ApRebecca Makkai on The Great Believers at the 2019 AWP Bookfair Sat March 30, 7 pm, IPRC, 318 SE Main #155, free, all ages ) (Reading at Orison Books Reading & Celebration w/Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua, Katie Farris, and more. The way he transforms his poems live is something everyone should experience. Informed by his experiences as a hard-of-hearing, Soviet Union-born immigrant to the United States, Deaf Republic-his long-awaited follow-up-is an allegorical, poetic epic about a town in an occupied country that makes up its own sign language to subvert authorities. In the 15 years since Ilya Kaminsky’s debut poetry collection Dancing in Odessa came out, he’s slowly acquired an almost cult-like status. Fri March 29, 7:30 pm, Sidebar, 3901 N Williams, free) Ilya Kaminsky (Reading at Books & Brews w/Kevin Sampsell, Tabitha Blankenbiller, and more. His latest book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, is a biography of the genre-redefining hip-hop group, a sweeping history of African American music, and a memoir of being an awkward, music-obsessed teen in the ’90s. Fri March 29, 7 pm, Ford Food & Drink, 2505 SE 11th, free) Hanif AbdurraqibĪ poet, essayist, music writer, and cultural commentator, Hanif Abdurraqib is equally adept at analyzing systemic racism as he is writing about the Ohio emo scene of the early ’00s, or the respective transformative live powers of Bruce Springsteen and Carly Rae Jepsen. (Reading at Atelier26 Books & Friends w/Woody Skinner, Sidney Wade, and more. But the small worlds she builds, and the atmospheres she creates within them, are firmly her own. ![]() When recommending her work, I often say she’s a funnier Raymond Carver, or a more grounded Mary Robison or Amy Hempel. Her 2015 collection People Like You is lonely and comic, prickly and sweet-a book I open up on occasion just to remember its goodness. Margaret Malone is, in my opinion, Portland’s best short story writer. ![]() ( Book fair Fri March 29 & Sat March 30, noon-5 pm, Bakery Building, 2222 NE Oregon for readings schedule and locations see /schedule, free) Margaret Malone ![]() At NF/F, you can peruse books from a wealth of local favorites (Octopus Books, Perfect Day Publishing, Fonograf Editions), as well as some of the best indie publishers from around the country (Wave Books, Black Ocean, Dorothy Project). This two-day book fair takes place simultaneously at two venues across the street from each other, features 25 independent presses, and includes a 70-PERSON double-venue reading Friday night. No Fair/Fair easily takes the prize for the most ambitious offsite AWP event. So here are some recommendations-a handful of names and not-to-be-missed events to help you find some new books and authors to fall in love with. The AWP website lists nearly 120 of them, most with numerous participants, and there are dozens of other events that aren’t listed. The only problem: There are A LOT of offsite events. ![]() And these offsite events are almost entirely free and open to the public. You can see more authors than you’ve ever dreamed of, play literary bingo, perform poetry karaoke, tour the William Stafford archives, and dance to writers night-lighting as DJs. This year, the annual gathering of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), the largest writer’s conference in the country, lands in Portland-which is huge! If you have any creative writers in your life, chances are they’re freaking out-if not for the conference itself, for the fact that it’s bringing fellow writers, editors, publishers, teachers, and friends in from all over the country.īut why does this matter to you, dear Portland book lover? Because some of the best writers in the country will be here and they’ll be spending their nights away from the convention center, reading at your favorite bars, restaurants, bookstores, and performance venues.
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