Upcoming Events...
Events
are free and open to the public.
All events take place at our store: 7983 SE 13th Ave (unless
otherwise noted).
Join us!
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Saturday, February 6th, 10am
Story-telling for Children
with Sy James
in the caboose!
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Thursday,
February 18th, 7pm
Monday,
February 22nd, 7pm
Oregon Writers Colony Presents:
Bibi
Gaston
author of
The Loveliest Woman in America
In 1927, at the age of twenty-three, Rosamond Pinchot was hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America." At thirty-three, in a sudden, shocking, and highly public act, Rosamond took her own life, setting in motion generations of confusion in the family she left behind. Nearly seventy years after her demise, her granddaughter Bibi received a box of more than 1,500 pages of Rosamond's diaries and embarked on a seven-year journey to make sense of the silence that surrounded Rosamond's death and to discover the grandmother she never knew. An acclaimed beauty, actress, socialite, and outdoors woman, Rosamond became the key to Bibi's understanding of her enigmatic and adventurous father, her glamorous but painfully divided family, and herself.
Bibi Gaston has been a practicing landscape architect for twenty years. She divides her time between New York City and the Columbia River Gorge, where, like her grandmother, she is learning to fish and tie her own flies. She has kept a diary since the age of eight.
OWC Presents! is a series of free workshops for or about writers and writing, presented by the Oregon Writers Colony. Workshops are held the 4th Monday of each month at Looking Glass Bookstore.
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Thursday,
February 25th, 7pm
A poetry reading with
Peter Sears, author
of Green
Diver
and
Penelope
Scambly Schott,
author of
Six Lips
About Peter Sears & his
new book, Green
Diver:
By turns macabre and absurd,
but always tender, the poems of Peter Sears' Green Diver gather
the reader in an embrace and then startle the reader into a deeper
consideration of the world's ironies.
Green Diver is
Peter Sears’s third full-length
collection, following The Brink, which won the Peregrine-Smith
Poetry Competition in 1999 and the WESTAF Book Award in Poetry
in 2000. Luge, his fifth chapbook, came out in 2008. His poems
have appeared in The Atlantic, Saturday Review, The New York
Times, Orion, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, and
many literary magazines and anthologies. A graduate of Yale University
and the Iowa Writers Workshop, he teaches in the M.F.A. Program
at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. He lives in Corvallis,
Oregon.
"Peter Sears is an heir to Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch. These breezy, sometimes manic poems veer off in unexpected directions, a sensibility at once comic and disarmingly revealing."--Dorianne Laux
"This is a shifting, whimsical voice—which never loses its antic charm, even in the face of harrowing circumstance. Gregory Corso meets Salvador Dali: 'Chemo Limo, I ride you through the bends.' Check it out."--Joseph Millar
About Penelope Scambly Schott
& her new book, Six Lips:
Six Lips is
an imagistic and offbeat approach to the old standards of love,
death, and the planet where they happen. The poems are feisty,
thoughtful, fun to read; they riot with original and often dreamlike
images: monkeys "who have learned to speak in words," a "broom
of violets," and even a child as a horse. The speaker of these
poems is nothing if not multiple and shape-shifting. Nimble and
tender, sensuous and biting, deliciously daring, and always
grounded in felt experience, Penelope Scambly Schott’s
poems take us on wild and glorious flights of womanhood.
Penelope Scambly Schott is the author of a novel, six previous poetry books, and five chapbooks. Her poetry books include three historical verse narratives, Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman, The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy, and A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Oregon Book Award for Poetry, 2008), as well as three lyric collections, The Perfect Mother (Violet Reed Hass Prize, 1994), Baiting the Void (Orphic Prize, 2005), and May the Generations Die in the Right Order. She has received four fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and residencies at The Fine Arts Work Center, The Vermont Studio Center, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. Penelope lives in Portland, Oregon where she hikes, grades papers, paints, and spoils her family, especially her dog, Lily Schott Sweetdog.
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Conferences and Off-site events
Have a book table at your event! We are fully equipped and experienced in bookselling at events large and small. Whether you are organizing a book talk or a large conference, we would be happy to talk to you about organizing the book table.
If you are hosting an author event or conference and would like us to sell books, please contact us with information regarding date, time, location, author(s), and expected number of attendees.
Events Coordinator
Looking Glass Bookstore
7983 SE 13th
Ave.
Portland, OR, 97202
lookingglassbook {at} qwestoffice.net
(503) 227-4760
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