STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY THROUGH READING!

The Everybody Reads 2012 selection is The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow.

In partnership with Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, Literary Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming event with Heidi W. Durrow.

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky received Barbara Kingsolver’s 2008 Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Kingsolver has said, “When I first envisioned the Bellwether Prize, I imagined all the best qualities of fiction: vivid language, compelling characters, and clear moral vision. Novels just like this one–Heidi Durrow’s breathless telling of a tale we’ve never heard before. Haunting and lovely, pitch-perfect, this book could not be more timely.”

We hope you, your friends and neighbors will join us on March 6th to hear the author discuss her beautifully exquisite story about identity and survival.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Prices: $10 – $25

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS!

For book group reservations of 8 or more please download our Group Order Form or call us at503.227.2583. Group prices reflect a 30% savings.

Ralph Salisbury  has three new poems in the anthology, Sing, U. Arizona Press.

The American Poetry Review has published two poems by the father of Karen McPherson, James Lowell McPherson. The article mentions Karen’s work on behalf of her father’s poetry.

This is a quick note to let you know that the poetry anthology I’ve been spear-heading for three years has a publisher, and will be in print as of Nov. 11, 2011 — it’ll be available at Amazon.com (and, we think, eligible for Super Saver shipping).

This project involves six women from different parts of the US who have never met in person, but who came together in an on-line writer’s conference and kept plugging away. We are way, way jazzed at this, and I can’t wait to get my hands on my copy. Michele Graf

Check out www.amazonneighbors.com . Erik Muller has written articles about poetry reading and writing, including a new one motivated by the daylight savings change. Comments and other articles and poems are invited; I am the expextant editor of the literary page for this neighborhood website.