Wordstock Festival 2011: Full Schedule

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12:00pm

Katrina Roberts & John Morrison

Speakers

John Morrison

John Morrison earned his MFA from the University of Alabama and received the 2003 C. Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship from Literary Arts. His book, HEAVEN OF THE MOMENT, won the 2006 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition and was a finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous national literary journals, including the Cimarron Review, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore. He has taught poetry at the University of Alabama...
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Katrina Roberts

Katrina Roberts has published four books of poems: UNDERDOG; FRIENDLY FIRE; THE QUICK; and HOW LATE DESIRE LOOKS. She is a professor of English & the humanities at Whitman College. Her work appears in places such as The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Poetry, and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets. She and her husband Jeremy Barker founded Tytonidae Cellars and the Walla Walla Distilling Company in southeast Washington, where they live on a small farm with their three...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

Tags Reading, poetry

1:00pm

Cyrus Cassells & Paulann Petersen

Speakers

Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells has five books, including MORE THAN PEACE AND CYPRESSES and THE CROSSED-OUT SWASTIKA, forthcoming in March 2012.

Paulann Petersen

Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen, has five full-length books of poetry: THE WILD AWAKE, BLOOD-SILK, A BRIDGE OF NARROW ESCAPE, KINDLE and THE VOLUPTUARY (Lost Horse Press 2010). A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of the 2006 Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the January Stafford Birthday Events.

Saturday October 8, 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

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2:00pm

Garrett Hongo & Henry Hughes

Speakers

Garrett Hongo

Garrett Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawaii, lived as a child in Kahuku on O`ahu, and grew up thereafter in Los Angeles. He is the author of two previous collections of poetry, three anthologies, and VOLCANO: A MEMOIR OF HAWAI`I. His poems and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Amerasia Journal, Raritan, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He has been the recipient of several awards...
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Henry Hughes

Henry Hughes grew up on Long Island, New York and has lived in Oregon since 2002. His poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Malahat Review, Southern Humanities Review, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and are represented in several anthologies including Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets. His first collection, MEN HOLDING EGGS, received the 2004 Oregon Book Award. His second book, MOIST MERIDIAN, was a finalist for the 2011 Oregon Book Award. He is the editor...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

Tags Reading, poetry

3:00pm

Poets from the Attic Atheneum

Speakers

Jodie Marion

Jodie Marion is from the Indian River region in Florida but has lived in the Northwest for the last 12 years. She mothers four wild children and teaches English and Spanish at Mt. Hood Community College. In June, she completed the Atheneum Master Writing Program at the Attic Institute in Portland. Her manuscript EYE TEETH was a finalist in the 2011 BOOM/Bateau chapbook contest; work from it appears in The New Guard Literary Review, Floating Bridge Review and VoiceCatcher. Marion was this...
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Michael Wynn

Michael Wynn practices neurology in Salem, Oregon. He is a member of the Attic Writers Workshop Atheneum class of 2011 in poetry. His poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, Untitled Country Review and Hektoen International.

Saturday October 8, 2011 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

Tags Reading, poetry

4:00pm

Peter Pereira & Elyse Fenton

Speakers

Elyse Fenton

Elyse Fenton is the author of the poetry collection CLAMOR, which won the 2010 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, Cleveland State University Press First Book Award and the Texas Institute of Letters‘ Bob Bush Memorial Award. She has published poetry and nonfiction in The New York Times, Best New Poets, The Massachusetts Review and Pleiades, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, BBC Arts and PRI’s The World. She received a BA from Reed College and an MFA from the...
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Peter Pereira

Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle, and was a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Journal of the American Medical Association and other magazines, and have been anthologized in 180 MORE: EXTRAORDINARY POEMS FOR EVERYDAY and the 2007 BEST AMERICAN POETRY. They have also been featured online at Verse Daily and Poetry Daily, as well as on National Public Radio’s The...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

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11:00am

Emily Warn & Ursula Le Guin

Speakers

Ursula K. Le Guin

As of 2011, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN- Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel LAVINIA, an essay collection, CHEEK BY JOWL, and THE WILD GIRLS. Her works forthcoming in 2012 is her poetry collection FINDING MY ELEGY, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. She...
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Emily Warn

Emily Warn’s latest of five poetry collections is SHADOW ARCHITECT, an exploration of the Hebrew alphabet. Her other books include THE LEAF PATH, THE NOVICE INSOMNIAC and SHADOW ARCHITECT, and two chapbooks THE BOOK OF ESTHER and HIGHWAY SUITE. Her essays and poems appear widely, including in Poetry, BookForum, Blackbird, Parabola, The Seattle Times, The Writers’ Almanac, The Bloomsbury Review, The Stranger, and Critical Mass–the National Book Critics Circle blog. She most recently...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 11:00am - 12:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

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12:00pm

Chris Anderson & Cecilia Hagen

Speakers

Chris Anderson

About Chris Anderson | TED Curator, TED Conferences, New York City, NY | | Chris Anderson is the curator of the TED Conference, a conference that explores the power of ideas to make a difference in the world. | | Anderson was born in Pakistan in 1957. His parents were medical missionaries and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. In 1978 he graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. | | In 1985 he launched Future...
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Cecelia Hagen

Cecelia Hagen is the author of ENTERING (Airlie Press) and of two chapbooks, FRINGE LIVING (26 Books Press) and AMONG OTHERS (Traprock Books). Her poetry, reviews and nonfiction have appeared in Rolling Stone, Prairie Schooner, Poet & Critic, Northwest Review, Caffeine Destiny, Blood Orange Review, Cream City Review and many other publications. Hagen was the fiction editor for Northwest Review for a number of years and recently co- founded a writers-in-the-schools program in Lane County.

Sunday October 9, 2011 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

Tags Reading, poetry

1:00pm

Zachary Schomburg & Ingrid Wendt

Speakers

Zachary Schomburg

Zachary Schomburg is the author of THE MAN SUIT; SCARY, NO SCARY; two forthcoming books, FJORDS and THE BOOK OF JOSHUA; a dvd of poem-films, LITTLE BLIND THING; and several small press chapbooks. He co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books and lives in Portland.

Ingrid Wendt

Ingrid Wendt’s books of poems have won the Oregon Book Award, the Yellowglen Award and the Editions Prize. EVENSONG, her fifth collection, will be published in October 2011 by Truman State University Press. Wendt is the editor of two anthologies and the author of the book-length teaching guide STARTING WITH THE LITTLE THINGS: A GUIDE TO WRITING POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM. She has taught in the MFA Program of Antioch University Los Angeles and, as a Senior Fulbright Professor and a...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

Tags Reading, poetry

2:00pm

Maxine Scates & Carl Adamschick

Speakers

Carl Adamschick

Maxine Scates

Maxine Scates is the author of three books of poetry, Undone (New Issues 2011) Toluca Street and Black Loam. She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. Her poems have been widely published in such journals as AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Ironwood, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and her work has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, the Lyre...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry

Tags Reading, poetry

4:00pm

Scott Poole

Speakers

Scott Poole

Scott Poole is the house poet for Live Wire!, a weekly radio variety show on Oregon Public Broadcasting that airs throughout the Pacific Northwest and is currently expanding to public broadcasting radio stations across the U.S. in such cities as Boston and Cleveland. He is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent is The Sliding Glass Door (2011, Colonus House Publishing) The official release for the Sliding Glass Door is at Wordstock on October 8th. The audiobook of The Sliding...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Attic Institute Stage (Oregon Convention Center)

Attic Institute Stage, Reading, Poetry