Literary Northwest Series
The Literary Northwest Series (Winter 2012)
Bill Porter & Eric Paul Shaffer
Friday, January 27
7:30PM
Memorial Union Journey Room
Bill Porter is a poet and translator well known for his work with Buddhist texts. His translations have been honored with a number of awards including two NEA translation fellowships, a PEN translation award, the inaugural Asian Literature Award of the American Literary Translators Association, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. After living for many years in Taiwan and Hong Kong, he now lives and writes in Port Townsend, Washington.
Eric Paul Shaffer is author of five books of poetry including Lāhaina Noon and Portable Planet. His poetry is published in North American Review, Slate, Ploughshares, and The Sun, as well as internationally in Island and Quadrant, Dalhousie Review, Fiddlehead, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword Journal, Poetry New Zealand, and Takahe. Shaffer received the 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, a 2006 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Book Award for Lāhaina Noon, and the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. He lives on O‘ahu and teaches at Honolulu Community College.
Ana Maria Spagna
Friday, April 13
7:30 PM
Time and Location TBA
Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey, winner of the 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Contest, and Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, named a best book of 2004 by The Seattle Times. Her writing is widely published in journals and magazines, including High Country News, Mountain Gazette, Oregon Quarterly, Orion, and Utne Reader. She lives in Stehekin, Washington.
Geri Doran & Maxine Scates
Friday, April 20
7:30 PM
Memorial Union 208, La Raza Room
Geri Doran is the author of Resin (LSU, 2005), selected by Henri Cole for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award, and Sanderlings (Tupelo, 2011). She has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Portland’s Literary Arts. Born in northwestern Montana, she holds degrees from Vassar College and the University of Florida and currently teaches poetry in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program.
Maxine Scates is the author of three books of poetry, Undone (New Issues, 2011), Toluca Street, and Black Loam. She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. Her poems have been widely published in such journals as AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Ironwood, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and her work has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, the Lyre Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She has taught at Lane Community College, Lewis and Clark College and most recently Reed College. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
The Literary Northwest Series is co-sponsored by the OSU MFA Program and the OSU Bookstore.
All readings are free and open to the Public with a book signing to follow.
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