Blackbird Wine Shop

3519 NE 44th (off Fremont)
Portland, Oregon
United States

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Description: Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting (optional, $5) at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th off Fremont, 7-9pm. Readers and performers interested in participating should contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen@gmail. com with an expression of interest and sample work.

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First Wednesday Reading Series (October 1 at 7:00pm)

Craig Lesley, Primus St. John, Diana Abu-Jaber.

The readers/performers for October 1 are Craig Lesley, Primus St. John and Diana Abu-Jaber.

Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best ... (more)novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor, and Arabian Jazz, which won the 1994 Oregon Book Award and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She teaches at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland and Miami.
Craig Lesley is the author of 4 novels and a memoir, along with numerous other works. He has received three Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awards, the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for Best Novel, and an Oregon Book Award. He has been the recipient of several national fellowships and holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Whitman College. Currently the Senior Writer-in-Residence at Portland State University, Craig lives with his wife and two daughters in Portland, Oregon. Both Storm Riders and The Sky Fisherman were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

When Professor Primus St. John joined the PSU faculty in 1973 he already enjoyed a national reputation as a fine poet. Since then he has published several collections of his poems, edited two anthologies, helped create the NEA-funded Poets in the Schools Program, won the Western States Book Award for Poetry (2000), and the Oregon Book Award for Poetry (1990). In 2000 he was a finalist for poetry for both the Oregon Book Award and the PEN West Award. Professor St. John has participated in countless readings and taught hundreds of students to write creatively and think critically. Currently he is completing a collection of new poems based on historical and Caribbean themes where he continues his examination of people, their circumstances, and how they deal with those circumstances.

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First Wednesday Reading Series: October 1 are Craig Lesley, Primus St. John and Diana Abu-Jaber. (October 1 at 7:00pm)

Craig Lesley.; Primus St. John.; Diana Abu-Jaber reads from Origin.

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First Wednesday Reading Series (November 5 at 7:00pm)

Molly Gloss reads from The Hearts of Horses.; Daniel Shach-Mills reads from The Tao of Now.; Johnny Wow discusses his outrageous paintings (www.johnnywow.com).

Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th off Fremont, 7-9pm. Readers and performers interested in participating should contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen@gmail.com with an expression of interest and ... (more)sample work.

The readers/performers for November 5 are Daniel Shach-Mills, Johnny Wow and Molly Gloss.

Daniel Skach-Mills was born in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and raised in Portland, Oregon. He holds an undergraduate degree from Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, and a graduate degree from St. Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington.

Daniel Skach-Mills award-winning poetry has appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies, including: The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Century. Sojourners, Open Spaces, and Prayers To Protest: Poems That Center And Bless Us (Pudding House Publications, 1998). His chapbook, Gold: Daniel Skach-Mills’s Greatest Hits, 1990-2000, appeared in 2001 from Pudding House.

In and around Oregon, Daniel Skach-Mills has been a featured reader for events at Looking Glass Bookstore, Marylhurst University, Living Earth Gatherings, KBOO Radio, and The Friends of William Stafford. A psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, he has lived both as a Benedictine and a Trappist monk, and is currently a volunteer docent for The Portland Classical Chinese Garden. Daniel conducts contemplative workshops based on The Tao of Now. He and his partner live in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. JohnnyWow! has long been concerned with the disparities of assigned gender roles and consequent disparities in contemporary society. Filtered through his rather obscure biblical and classical themes, some strikingly provocative and inexplicable images have arisen.

JohnnyWow! has both a BA and MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Washington, acquired in the 60's. Recently he completed a program resulting in the acquisition of a Doctorate in Metaphysics. He spent over 30 years working as an offset printer, a field in which he had little talent and no interest. Now as Dr. JohnnyWow! he is free to explore the themes and issues that have haunted him for decades.

Most of the art works on display are destined to be part of the good doctor's rigorous Creation/Destruction Aesthetic. It may be your last chance to tell him how wonderful the paintings and drawings are. You may speak to the artist and comment on the work. Your humble and silent awe is misplaced in the presence of art. Johnny Wow! guarantees you won't depart without a piece of real art. When you attend an Art show, don't leave without some Art!

Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland.

Her novel The Jump-Off Creek was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, and a winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. In 1996 Molly was a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award.

The Dazzle of Day was named a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the PEN Center West Fiction Prize.

Wild Life won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was chosen as the 2002 selection for "If All Seattle Read the Same Book."

The Hearts of Horses, released in Fall, 2007, is the novel of a young woman breaking horses for several ranchers in Eastern Oregon in the winter of 1917.

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First Wednesday Readings: Tim Sproul, Leslie Wetter, Evelyn Sharenov and Moira McAuliffe (December 3 at 7:00pm)

Tim Sproul.; Leslie Wetter.; Evelyn Sharenov.; Moira McAuliffe.

Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th off Fremont, 7-9pm. Readers and performers interested in participating should contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen@gmail.com with an expression of interest and ... (more)sample work.

The readers/performers for December 3 are Tim Sproul, Leslie Wetter, Evelyn Sharenov and Moira McAuliffe.

Leslie Wetter: was born and bred in Brooklyn, New York. That makes me a real New Yorker. I write about my past, my present, my spirit. You might say I have developed in Oregon. I have a manuscript of about 75 poems and intend to either have it published or simply self publish. I'm taking writing classes regarding the business as well as the craft of writing. I had a future as a very promising actress until a car ran over me and broke
both my legs. I'm not in a wheel chair but I don't have the physical dexterity needed as an actor in theater and film. However that talent kind of waltzes it's way out while I read my poetry to any audience. I look to Milton Kessler, and David Ignatow as some of my favored poets.

Moira McAuliffe made her US debut in Damon Knight's Clarion Awards. In the following 25 years she has published fiction and verse in The Adelaide Review, Overland, Australian Short Stories, siglo, FEMSPEC, Eye-Rhyme, and in several webzines, one edited by Bill Shields.

She has written a libretto for La Mama Courthouse Theatre in Melbourne (Australia); in 2002 she co-founded the multilingual Portland-based Gobshite Quarterly, where she continues as contributing editor. In 2007 she co-edited The Broken Word: The Alberta Street Anthology, Volume Two, and proof-read the non-pictographic, non-Cyrillic, non-Greek, non-kanakata content of Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages (Gobshite Quarterly and Soft Skull Books, 2008).

Her collections include Fighting Monsters (Vaughan Willoughby Publishing, Melbourne, 1998), and a series of mini-chapbooks published in Portland by Urban Serf.

Tim Sproul is the author of How to Leave Your Home Town for Good. His poetry has appeared in Rattle, Zone 3, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rain, and The Talking River Review. He received a Zone 3 Poetry Award for "Feeling the Train, Finding You." Writer Willy Vlautin recently described Sproul as "the most impressive gut wrenching poet to come out of the Northwest in years." And poet Eugene Gloria said, "Sproul's voice fuses the big feeling of story and song. His debut collection is an astonishing accomplishment." Sproul lives in Milwaukie, Oregon, works in the advertising business and laments the disappearance of the nylon tavern windbreaker. He is currently writing a novel.

Evelyn Sharenov's stories, essays and poetry have been published in Glimmer Train, Fugue, Rain City Review, Mediphors, Hip Mama, XConnect, Eclectica and other journals. She has been awarded an Oregon Literary Arts grant in fiction and has been a notable in Best American Short Stories. She is a freelance reviewer for the the Oregonian newspaper, and has written features and reviews for The Bear Deluxe and Bitch Magazine. Her short story "Magic Affinities" was anthologized in "Love You To Pieces" from Beacon Press last spring. Evelyn has degrees in literature and mental health nursing and did graduate work in piano performance.

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Special Reading of MFA Students (January 7 at 7:00pm)

Mindie Kniss .; Ellen Michaelson.; Jason Sandefur.; Beth Russell .

Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th off Fremont, 7-9pm. Readers and performers interested in participating should contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen@gmail.com with an expression of interest and ... (more)sample work. This is a special reading of students of and graduates from Pacific University’s Master of Fine Arts in writing program. The readers/performers for January 7 are Mindie Kniss, Ellen Michaelson, Jason Sandefur and Beth Russell. Native to the woods of Whidbey Island, Washington, Beth Russell has studied at Whitman College, St. Andrews University, Oregon State University and--most recently--at Pacific University in Forest Grove. She holds a Bachelors in English, a Masters in Teaching, and an MFA in Creative Writing. Currently, she gardens, writes, and teaches in Corvallis, Oregon, where she lives with her husband, her son, a dog, two cats, seven hens, three roosters, and a large, inscrutable frog. J. Paul Sandefur began his writing career publishing essays and stories in local newspapers in Virginia, where he grew up. After earning his bachelor's at the University of Montana, he taught middle school in Colorado before becoming a journalist. He is currently studying fiction in the Master of Fine Arts program at Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR. Mindie Kniss is currently pursuing an MFA in nonfiction from Pacific University. In 2006, she was awarded a Global Health Fellowship to live and work in Nairobi, Kenya, where much of her forthcoming memoir takes place. Originally from Chicago, Mindie recently relocated to Portland, OR to reestablish her holistic coaching practice, Awaken Consciousness. Her work appears in the new book, Wake Up Women: Be Happy, Healthy & Wealthy. Mindie holds degrees in theology and metaphysics. Ellen Michaelson was born in Portland, Maine and moved to Portland, Oregon to work with novelist, Tom Spanbauer. She is currently a student in the MFA program at Pacific University. She has published non-fiction in Portland Monthly, Literature and Medicine, and Women and Solititude(ed. Delese Weir), and an excerpt of her novel in Fetishes. Before moving from NYC to Oregon, she was a semi-finalist for the Heekin Foundation Awards and a finalist for the New Voice Awards(Writers Community, NYC) and Rocky Mt Women Writers Institute. Ellen is a physician and a cyclist. Her novel-in-progress is about outsiderness as seen through the eyes of a young Polish Jewish immigrant, the only white orderly in an inner city New York hospital. Link to Oregon Literary Review Calendar of Events: http://tinyurl.com/8kph8z

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February 4: Ron Bloodworth, John Blackard, Alison Apotheker, David Hill (February 4 at 7:00pm)

ron bloodworth.; john blackard.; Alison Apotheker reads from Slim Margin.; David Hill reads from Consumed.

Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th off Fremont, 7-9pm. Readers and performers interested in participating should contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen [at] gmail.com with an expression of interest ... (more)and sample work. The readers/performers for February 4 are Ron Bloodworth, John Blackard, Alison Apotheker, David Hill Ron Bloodworth has published poems in The Oregonian and in Ghosts: Dreams & Hauntings, a chapbook of poems by the Nulla Dies Poets. He has been influenced and inspired by many different poets at writing workshops in the Northwest including Centrum, Fishtrap, Oregon Mountain Writers Community, and the MFA program at Pacific University. Ron is active locally with a number of writer's groups and a long-time member of the Portland-based Nulla Dies Sine Linea poetry group. He lives with his domestic partner of 23 years in Portland, Oregon. John Blackard is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with advanced degrees in English Studies and Library and Information Studies. He has two books of poems in print and a book about the golden age of paperback publishing. He has received Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. He now lives in Portland with his wife, the poet Valentina Gnup, and was recently appointed assistant managing editor of Poetry Northwest. Alison Apotheker’s first book of poems, Slim Margin, will be published by WordTech Communications in Dec. 2008. Her work is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts fellowship and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She has poems published in or forthcoming from Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, and Mid-American Review among other literary magazines. She teaches creative writing and English at Portland Community College where she also runs the Rock Creek Writing Center. David Hill will read from his new book, *Consumed* (KenArnoldBooks, 156 pages. $14.00), which offers quirky snaps of life in the consumer age. Hill's poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and periodicals, and a debut collection was issued in 1999 by the UK's National Poetry Foundation. He has also provided lyrics for recording artists, and writes journalism and nonfiction on economy, travel and culture. "Well on his way to becoming a major poet—perhaps the first for the era of globalization." —James Bowman, former American editor, the *Times Literary Supplement*.

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Reading March 4th from Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology (March 4 at 7:00pm)

matt love reads from Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon' Sesquicentennial Anthology.

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Poet Jay Leeming Reads From "Dynamite On A China Plate." (March 14 at 7:00pm)

Jay Leeming reads from Dynamite On A China Plate.

When Robert Bly visited Portland several years ago, he read in the distinguished "Poetry Downtown Series" by Literary Arts. Not only did Bly read his own work, he also read the poems of a younger poet he admired. That poet is Jay Leeming, and he'll be in Portland on March 14 to present a workshop during ... (more)the day, and to read and sign books at Blackbird Wine Shop that evening. Leeming has been praised not only by Robert Bly, but by Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Martin Prechtel, and his poetry has been featured and read on the air by Garrison Keller for Writer's Almanac. From Ithica, New York, Leeming's poetry is a rattle beating a rhythmic reminder that there are worlds within worlds, and Leeming provides the magnifying glass through which one can view these worlds.

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First Wednesday Reading April 1: Verlena Orr, Valentina Gnup, Judith Arcana, Liz Nakazawa (April 1 at 7:00pm)

Verlena Orr reads from One More Time From the Beginning.; Valentina Gnup.; Liz Nakazawa reads from Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon.; Judith Arcana reads from poems selected by the artist.

Liz Nakazawa has been a freelance writer and editor since 1984 and has published articles on a variety of subjects such as health, gardening, education and the environment. Her work has appeared in The Oregonian, Oregon Business Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor. Deer Drink the Moon, which was ... (more)named one of the 150 books for the Oregon sesquicentennial, is her first book. The anthology highlights the poetry of 33 Oregon poets. Verlena Orr, twice nominated for Pushcart, hails from north-central Idaho, one mountain west of Missoula, Montana. Raised on a farm, she attended grade and secondary school in Kamiah, Idaho on the NezPerce reservation. She has published 3 chapbooks and one full-length collection of poems and work has appeared in small magazines and journals from California to the UK. Has lived in Portland since 1963 and holds an MFA from University of Montana. She will be reading from latest chapbook, “One More Time From the Beginning." Valentina Gnup was born in Santa Monica, and lived in Santa Barbara, California until 2002 when she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She then moved to North Carolina, where she taught writing at Greensboro College for five years and met her second husband. In 2005 her chapbook Sparrow Octaves won the NC Writers’ Network Mary Belle Campbell Book Award. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Nimrod, Mary Journal, Chelsea, Brooklyn Review and Crab Orchard Review. She has two adult daughters and she is married to the poet John Blackard. They live in Portland—just blocks from the Blackbird Wine Shop. Judith Arcana writes poems, stories, essays and books. She’s just published 4th Period English, a chapbook of poems about immigration and related themes. Her most recent full-length book is the poetry collection What if your mother; among her prose books is Grace Paley’s Life Stories, A Literary Biography. Judith lives in Portland’s Hollywood district, in an apartment above the library. Visit juditharcana.com.

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