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August, 2010
Friday, August 13, 7pm -Second Friday Literary Night presents Three Willamette Poets.
Three Willamette Poets, Paula Lowden, Bill Siverly, and Tim Applegate are touring Eastern Oregon, August 11-13, and stopping in Baker City to read. The poets will be available afterward to discuss and sign their books.
Paula Lowden and Bill Siverly, Portland, and Tim Applegate, Gaston, have recently published collections with Traprock Books, a Eugene press specializing in work by Oregon poets.
Paula Lowden’s This Narrow Place We Navigate explores family and nature, discovering how they link and separate. A native Oregonian, she is a graduate student in the field of counseling art therapy and has had a career in massage and bodywork.
Bill Siverly is a founding editor of Windfall: A Journal of Poetry and Place. His Clearwater Way is a book of linked poems about rivers in the contexts of natural and cultural history. He gained knowledge of the Columbia River and its tributaries from boyhood in Lewiston, Idaho, and many years of travel from Portland, where he taught college English.
Tim Applegate combines his work and art lives in At the End of Day, poems ranging from accounts of work aboard a dry-docked ship to meditations on land, family, and illness.
Tour contact: Erik Muller, Traprock Books, 541-344-1053 mulpop@efn.org
Saturday, August 14, 1:15-3 pm - WGEO Meeting
WGEO regular meeting at Baker County Library on Resort Street in Baker City. Bring something to read or just sit in on the conversation or get information about your next publishing project.
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