Entries from May 2009

Matt Briggs: May 27

May 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Novelist and short story writer Matt Briggs will read in CCC’s Literary Arts Center (Rook 220) at 8 pm on May 27.  The event is open and free to the public.

Briggs is the author of  four collections of short stories, The Remains of River Names, Misplaced Alice, The Moss Gatherers and The End is the Beginning. His first novel, Shoot the Buffalo, won the American Book Award in 2006.  He lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.

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Paulann Petersen & Willa Schneberg: May 15

May 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Poets Paulann Petersen and Willa Schneberg will read at noon on Friday, May 15 in Rook 220. The event is free and open to the public.

Petersen’s books of poetry are The Wild Awake (Confluence Press), Blood-Silk (Quiet Lion Press), and A Bride of Narrow Escape (Cloudbank Books), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. A fourth collection, Kindle, came out in 2008 from Mountains and Rivers Press.

Schneberg received the Oregon Book Award in Poetry for her second collection, In the Margins of the World. Her most recent volume of poetry is Storytelling in Cambodia (Calyx Books).

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