The Latest on First Wednesday Readings
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
The Latest on First Wednesday Readings
The readers for October 7th are Kassten Alonso, M. F. McAuliffe, R V Branham and the 69+ Choir.
The readers for November 4th are Christy Caballero, Dan Raphael, Cody Meyocks, and Rosanne Parry.
The readers for December 2 are Michael Shay, Ric Vrana, Roger Truax and David Matthews
The readers for January 6 are Vanessa Veselka, Frayn Masters, Kari Luna, Andy Diaz
Readers interested in getting scheduled for 2010 should contact me ASAP. Slots go fast!
The Blackbird Wine Shop has moved. It's new location is on Fremont, in the same building: 4323 NE Fremont.
They plan to include a cheese shop soon.
Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen [at] gmail.com for more information.
October 7th
Kassten Alonso was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Willamette University in Salem. Kassten has previously published in the Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly, the Oregonian, and was a contributing author to Citadel of the spirit : Oregon's sesquicentennial anthology. Core: a Romance is his first published novel, and was nominated as a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards in 2005. Kassten is currently working on his next novel.
M. F. McAuliffe is co-founder and contributing editor at the award-winning, Portland-based magazine, Gobshite Quarterly. She made her US debut in Damon Knight's Clarion Awards. Over the following 25 years she published fiction and verse in many venues in the U.S. and Australia, most recently in the webzine WORK. Her collections include Fighting Monsters, and a series of mini-chapbooks.
R.V. Branham was born & grew up in Calexico, California, a border town, where everyone spoke Spanish, Czech, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, Yiddish, &/or even English. His first language was Spanish, his second James Joyce. He attended U.S.C., El Camino College, Cal State Dominguez Hills, & Michigan State University, where he variously studied Radiology, Journalism & Playwrighting, and has been in writing workshops with Beyond Baroque, John Rechy, Sheila Finch, & others. His day jobs have included: technical typist, photo-researcher, asst. x-ray technician, interpreter, social worker, & Treasury Dept. terrorist. His short fiction has been published in magazines such as 2 Gyrls Quarterly, Back Brain Recluse, Téma, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Midnight Graffiti, & have been collected in as several Gardner Dozois anthologies, & translated into Croatian, German, Japanese & Spanish; his plays, Bad Teeth, and Matt & Geof Go Flying, have been performed in staged readings in Los Angeles & Portland. He has translated Laura Esquivel into English & several of Croatian poet Tomica Bajsic’s poems into Spanish. Back in the day he co-hosted a floating aether-den (it was the 70’s). An occasional printer’s devil since the age of ten, he has also worked for indie newspapers such as Portland Metrozine & Paperback Jukebox. He is the founder & editor of Gobshite Quarterly, & the author of a 90-language dictionary of insult & invective, Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages, which occasioned a literary spat between Canadian & American linguists. He is currently completing a 170-language dictionary of religion & theology. And then there are anthologies, & fiction, & non-fiction projects. No rest for the wicked.
69+ choir is an assemblage of polyglots & musicians who will perform excerpts from CURSE + BERATE IN 69+ LANGUAGES in Afrikaans, Croatian, Duch, Estonian, Finish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazak, kwa-Zulu, Russian, Turkish, & Uzbek, among other languages...
Up Next: November 4th will be Christy Caballero, Dan Raphael, Cody Meyocks, and Rosanne Parry.
Cody Meyocks was born in Portland, Oregon on Valentine's Day 1989, year of the snake. He suspects the snake may have its tail in its mouth. He grew up as a student of desires in Las Vegas, Nevada until his return to Portland in 2007 to study English in the Portland State Honors Program for students planning post-graduate studies, which he left behind in the summer of 2008 to follow a more Zen-oriented path of education. He now spends his time making music with friends and volunteering with a radical book distributor in Oakland, California while studying leisurely at public libraries topics from the origins of poetry to anarcho-primitivism to Taoism. He picks up the thread of poetry and freedom running from the Beat Generation back through the Transcendentalists, stretching to a time long before (and after) writing and words. He has been published in Pathos Literary Magazine and 4 and 20 Poetry.
Confirmed & Fine - Dan Raphael enjoys writing and performing poetry. He is the author of 16 books, including the re-released Bop Grit Storm Café, and Breath Test. His poems have appeared in around 300 publications and sites, recently in Portland Review, Heavy Bear, Knock Journal, Otoliths and Writer's Dojo. But sometimes it’s best to see Dan live, in places like Wordstock, Burning Word, Powell’s, Portland Jazz Festival and the Richard Hugo House. Dan works for the dmv; arranges poetry readings; reads too much news and analyses; and brews, drinks & reviews beer.
Christy A. Caballero is a freelance writer and photographer, who lives a couple of deer trails off the beaten track in Oregon. The woods, the sound of the river, or the sight of the ocean can all put a smile on her face. Her work has earned national awards, including the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest and the Dog Writer's Association of America "Maxwell" Award. Christy has contributed stories to several volumes of A Cup of Comfort. She is a daily newspaper correspondent, with numerous print magazine pieces, including centerpiece features for Alaska Business Monthly.
Confirmed - All it took was one day of helping out no her best friend’s ranch in eastern Oregon to convince Rosanne Parry that being a cowboy was not her true calling—and stock horses everywhere are grateful. The lessons in calf roping didn’t stick but the stark beauty of eastern Oregon and the kindness and generosity of the ranching community made a lasting impression. Rosanne found a similar rapport among the military families she knew when her husband, an army officer, was deployed to the First Gulf War. Writing HEART OF A SHEPHERD allowed her to combine her experiences with both communities. Rosanne now lives in an old farmhouse in Portland, Oregon with bunnies and chickens and her husband and four kids. She wrote this story in her tree house.
Up Next: December 2 will be Michael Shay, Ric Vrana, Roger Truax and David Matthews
Michael Shay makes his living as a commercial photographer in Portland, OR and is one of the principals in Polara Studio. He started writing again after an 18 year hiatus when his profession could finally support his avocations of writing poetry and making fine art photographs.
He received a Master of Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary And Experimental Art from San Francisco State Universiy. He also studied at both the Undergraduate and Graduate Iowa Writers' Workshops in poetry. He was co-founder of Post Mortem Photography, a performance art collaborative that combines spoken word with photography and music. PMP has performed at many galleries and events including the San Francisco International Poetry and Perfromance Festival at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Photographic Image Gallery and the Berkley Art Center. He also taught for 5 years at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
Active in the open mike scene, in the past few years he has been contributing editor to "Broken Word:The Alberta Street Anthology Volume 1 and II" and has had recent work appear in numerous literary journals including Ephmeris, the South Carolina Review, The Wisconsin Review and Nimrod International Journal of the Arts.
Ric Vrana works as a planner for TriMet, the Portland Metropolitan transit agency. He has a PhD in Geography and teaches as an adjunct professor of Urban Planning at Portland State University. Places, and the maps that tell us about them, are lifelong fascinations and so his poetry is infused with landscapes, geography, and the themes of migration and remembrance.
A casual writer for more than forty years, Ric was active in the Seattle scene in the early 1980s and regularly appeared at the Red Sky Poetry Theater in Pike Place Market. A long hiatus in graduate school could not quite kill off the creative writing urge and in recent years he has been a regular at Portland Open Mikes and various invited venues. He is currently working on a book of poems that describe his journey west and a visit east.
David Matthews is a native of the South Carolina Midlands who now resides in Portland, Oregon. Among his poetic influences are the English Romantics, French Surrealism, Emily Dickinson, Gregory Corso, and Bob Dylan.
Poems have appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Night Bomb Review #1, Tryst, the poetry blog Magnapoets, the anthologies Blown Out: Portland's indie poets and Raising Our Voices: an anthology of Oregon poets against the war, and elsewhere. He is the author two small volumes, self-published in the tradition of Blake and Whitman: Notes to One Who Is Far from Here (2003) and A Portable Bohemia (2008).
Rogers Truax discreetly flies under the radar in order to pursue a compulsion to draw blood from the status quo. His poetry attempts to intuit previously unperceived nuances regarding the troubling relationship between beauty and metaphysics. In a time and place often beyond parody, his rants and reflections aspire to create satire indistinguishable from truth. Locally, he has read his poetry at Café Lena, the Alberta Street Public House and the Blue Monk.
Recent work has appeared in Broken Word: The Alberta Street Anthology Vol. II and Elizabeth Archers' - BlownOut: Portland's Indie Poets
The readers for January 6 are Vanessa Veselka, Frayn Masters, Kari Luna, Andy Diaz
The readers for October 7th are Kassten Alonso, M. F. McAuliffe, R V Branham and the 69+ Choir.
The readers for November 4th are Christy Caballero, Dan Raphael, Cody Meyocks, and Rosanne Parry.
The readers for December 2 are Michael Shay, Ric Vrana, Roger Truax and David Matthews
The readers for January 6 are Vanessa Veselka, Frayn Masters, Kari Luna, Andy Diaz
Readers interested in getting scheduled for 2010 should contact me ASAP. Slots go fast!
The Blackbird Wine Shop has moved. It's new location is on Fremont, in the same building: 4323 NE Fremont.
They plan to include a cheese shop soon.
Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen [at] gmail.com for more information.
October 7th
Kassten Alonso was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Willamette University in Salem. Kassten has previously published in the Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly, the Oregonian, and was a contributing author to Citadel of the spirit : Oregon's sesquicentennial anthology. Core: a Romance is his first published novel, and was nominated as a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards in 2005. Kassten is currently working on his next novel.
M. F. McAuliffe is co-founder and contributing editor at the award-winning, Portland-based magazine, Gobshite Quarterly. She made her US debut in Damon Knight's Clarion Awards. Over the following 25 years she published fiction and verse in many venues in the U.S. and Australia, most recently in the webzine WORK. Her collections include Fighting Monsters, and a series of mini-chapbooks.
R.V. Branham was born & grew up in Calexico, California, a border town, where everyone spoke Spanish, Czech, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, Yiddish, &/or even English. His first language was Spanish, his second James Joyce. He attended U.S.C., El Camino College, Cal State Dominguez Hills, & Michigan State University, where he variously studied Radiology, Journalism & Playwrighting, and has been in writing workshops with Beyond Baroque, John Rechy, Sheila Finch, & others. His day jobs have included: technical typist, photo-researcher, asst. x-ray technician, interpreter, social worker, & Treasury Dept. terrorist. His short fiction has been published in magazines such as 2 Gyrls Quarterly, Back Brain Recluse, Téma, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Midnight Graffiti, & have been collected in as several Gardner Dozois anthologies, & translated into Croatian, German, Japanese & Spanish; his plays, Bad Teeth, and Matt & Geof Go Flying, have been performed in staged readings in Los Angeles & Portland. He has translated Laura Esquivel into English & several of Croatian poet Tomica Bajsic’s poems into Spanish. Back in the day he co-hosted a floating aether-den (it was the 70’s). An occasional printer’s devil since the age of ten, he has also worked for indie newspapers such as Portland Metrozine & Paperback Jukebox. He is the founder & editor of Gobshite Quarterly, & the author of a 90-language dictionary of insult & invective, Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages, which occasioned a literary spat between Canadian & American linguists. He is currently completing a 170-language dictionary of religion & theology. And then there are anthologies, & fiction, & non-fiction projects. No rest for the wicked.
69+ choir is an assemblage of polyglots & musicians who will perform excerpts from CURSE + BERATE IN 69+ LANGUAGES in Afrikaans, Croatian, Duch, Estonian, Finish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazak, kwa-Zulu, Russian, Turkish, & Uzbek, among other languages...
Up Next: November 4th will be Christy Caballero, Dan Raphael, Cody Meyocks, and Rosanne Parry.
Cody Meyocks was born in Portland, Oregon on Valentine's Day 1989, year of the snake. He suspects the snake may have its tail in its mouth. He grew up as a student of desires in Las Vegas, Nevada until his return to Portland in 2007 to study English in the Portland State Honors Program for students planning post-graduate studies, which he left behind in the summer of 2008 to follow a more Zen-oriented path of education. He now spends his time making music with friends and volunteering with a radical book distributor in Oakland, California while studying leisurely at public libraries topics from the origins of poetry to anarcho-primitivism to Taoism. He picks up the thread of poetry and freedom running from the Beat Generation back through the Transcendentalists, stretching to a time long before (and after) writing and words. He has been published in Pathos Literary Magazine and 4 and 20 Poetry.
Confirmed & Fine - Dan Raphael enjoys writing and performing poetry. He is the author of 16 books, including the re-released Bop Grit Storm Café, and Breath Test. His poems have appeared in around 300 publications and sites, recently in Portland Review, Heavy Bear, Knock Journal, Otoliths and Writer's Dojo. But sometimes it’s best to see Dan live, in places like Wordstock, Burning Word, Powell’s, Portland Jazz Festival and the Richard Hugo House. Dan works for the dmv; arranges poetry readings; reads too much news and analyses; and brews, drinks & reviews beer.
Christy A. Caballero is a freelance writer and photographer, who lives a couple of deer trails off the beaten track in Oregon. The woods, the sound of the river, or the sight of the ocean can all put a smile on her face. Her work has earned national awards, including the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest and the Dog Writer's Association of America "Maxwell" Award. Christy has contributed stories to several volumes of A Cup of Comfort. She is a daily newspaper correspondent, with numerous print magazine pieces, including centerpiece features for Alaska Business Monthly.
Confirmed - All it took was one day of helping out no her best friend’s ranch in eastern Oregon to convince Rosanne Parry that being a cowboy was not her true calling—and stock horses everywhere are grateful. The lessons in calf roping didn’t stick but the stark beauty of eastern Oregon and the kindness and generosity of the ranching community made a lasting impression. Rosanne found a similar rapport among the military families she knew when her husband, an army officer, was deployed to the First Gulf War. Writing HEART OF A SHEPHERD allowed her to combine her experiences with both communities. Rosanne now lives in an old farmhouse in Portland, Oregon with bunnies and chickens and her husband and four kids. She wrote this story in her tree house.
Up Next: December 2 will be Michael Shay, Ric Vrana, Roger Truax and David Matthews
Michael Shay makes his living as a commercial photographer in Portland, OR and is one of the principals in Polara Studio. He started writing again after an 18 year hiatus when his profession could finally support his avocations of writing poetry and making fine art photographs.
He received a Master of Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary And Experimental Art from San Francisco State Universiy. He also studied at both the Undergraduate and Graduate Iowa Writers' Workshops in poetry. He was co-founder of Post Mortem Photography, a performance art collaborative that combines spoken word with photography and music. PMP has performed at many galleries and events including the San Francisco International Poetry and Perfromance Festival at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Photographic Image Gallery and the Berkley Art Center. He also taught for 5 years at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
Active in the open mike scene, in the past few years he has been contributing editor to "Broken Word:The Alberta Street Anthology Volume 1 and II" and has had recent work appear in numerous literary journals including Ephmeris, the South Carolina Review, The Wisconsin Review and Nimrod International Journal of the Arts.
Ric Vrana works as a planner for TriMet, the Portland Metropolitan transit agency. He has a PhD in Geography and teaches as an adjunct professor of Urban Planning at Portland State University. Places, and the maps that tell us about them, are lifelong fascinations and so his poetry is infused with landscapes, geography, and the themes of migration and remembrance.
A casual writer for more than forty years, Ric was active in the Seattle scene in the early 1980s and regularly appeared at the Red Sky Poetry Theater in Pike Place Market. A long hiatus in graduate school could not quite kill off the creative writing urge and in recent years he has been a regular at Portland Open Mikes and various invited venues. He is currently working on a book of poems that describe his journey west and a visit east.
David Matthews is a native of the South Carolina Midlands who now resides in Portland, Oregon. Among his poetic influences are the English Romantics, French Surrealism, Emily Dickinson, Gregory Corso, and Bob Dylan.
Poems have appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Night Bomb Review #1, Tryst, the poetry blog Magnapoets, the anthologies Blown Out: Portland's indie poets and Raising Our Voices: an anthology of Oregon poets against the war, and elsewhere. He is the author two small volumes, self-published in the tradition of Blake and Whitman: Notes to One Who Is Far from Here (2003) and A Portable Bohemia (2008).
Rogers Truax discreetly flies under the radar in order to pursue a compulsion to draw blood from the status quo. His poetry attempts to intuit previously unperceived nuances regarding the troubling relationship between beauty and metaphysics. In a time and place often beyond parody, his rants and reflections aspire to create satire indistinguishable from truth. Locally, he has read his poetry at Café Lena, the Alberta Street Public House and the Blue Monk.
Recent work has appeared in Broken Word: The Alberta Street Anthology Vol. II and Elizabeth Archers' - BlownOut: Portland's Indie Poets
The readers for January 6 are Vanessa Veselka, Frayn Masters, Kari Luna, Andy Diaz
