PORTLAND’5 PRESENTS
FREE EVENTS
POETS ON
BROADWAY October 2015–April 2016 ANTOINETTE HATFIELD HALL
Save the dates for the next season of Poets on Broadway, a lively downtown poetry performance series at the Portland’5 Centers for the Arts’ Antoinette Hatfield Hall. The ArtBar & Bistro is open for your dining and drinking pleasure and the readings will thrill you with the always surprising combinations of poets and poetry.
This series is free and open to the public
MON, OCTOBER 26 • 8:00PM JOHN BEER
John is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the chapbook Lucinda (Spork, 2013). The fulllength version of Lucinda will appear from Canarium in 2016. He is also the editor of Poems (19621997) by Robert Lax (Wave, 2013). He lives in Portland and teaches at Portland State University. MICHELE GLAZER
Michele’s most recent book of poems is On Tact, & the Made Up World (Iowa, 2010). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, and Literary Arts. Glazer teaches in and directs the MFA and BFA Creative Writing programs at Portland State University.
MON, JANUARY 25 • 8:00PM SAMIYA BASHIR
Samiya Bashir is the author of Gospel and Where the Apple Falls. Recent issues of Poetry, Ecotone, World Literature Today, Poet Lore, Eleven Eleven, Cascadia Review, Hoax, The Normal School, and others house her newest poems. She holds a BA from the University of California, where she served as Poet Laureate, an MFA from the University of Michigan, where her poetry garnered two Hopwood Awards, and has won numerous fellowships, grants, and honors for her work. She teaches creative writing at Reed College. KEVIN CRAFT
Seattle-based author and poet Kevin Craft is the current Editor of Poetry Northwest, the regions oldest literary magazine. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared widely in such place as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Stranger. Kevin believes that poems, like good travelers, live in the go-between.
MON, APRIL 25 • 8:00PM KAREN HOLMBERG
Karen Holmberg’s second book of poems, Axis Mundi, won the John Ciardi Prize and was published in 2013 by BkMk Press. Slate named it one of the ten best poetry books of 2013. Recent poetry and nonfiction has appeared in such magazines as Southern Poetry Review, New England Review, West Branch, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Poetry East. She teaches poetry writing in the MFA program at Oregon State University. JENNIFER RICHTER
Jennifer’s new collection, No Acute Distress, was named a Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection; her first book, Threshold, was chosen by Natasha Trethewey for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and by Robert Pinsky as an Oregon Book Award Finalist. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Richter currently teaches in Oregon State University’s MFA Program.
Poets on Broadway is presented by the Portland’5 Foundation and the Attic Institute. This series is made possible through an Opportunity Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC). PORTLAND5.COM
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