[Local events] Reminder: Thu 3/16 & Fri 3/17, Spare Room readings

[Passages Bookshop]

/Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present two evenings of poetry and music:/
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/Thursday, March 16/*

    *ADAM TORRES**
    **LORRAINE LUPO**
    **KYLE SCHLESINGER**
    **RODNEY KOENEKE*

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Friday, March 17/*

    *LISA FISHMAN
    RICHARD MEIER
    JOSHUA BECKMAN***


Doors open at 7:00 pm; reading at 7:30 pm both nights
Admission free; no late entry

*Passages Bookshop* <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665

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*Adam Torres* released both /Pearls to Swine/ and /I Came to Sing the 
Song/ on Fat Possum Records in 2016 & 2017 respectively, from his 
then-home of Austin, Texas. After three years of touring far and wide, 
he is now living and writing songs in his new home of Portland, Oregon.

*Lorraine Lupo* loves collaboration. Her book /The Unwanted Sounds/ has 
just been released by Cuneiform Press. As the Poet-In-Residence at 
Creative Growth Art Center, she facilitates collaborative poetry 
workshops which have resulted in the books /The Poem Is Telling Me I 
Remember/ and /Dear Volcano/ (both from Slacks Books). She has also 
collaborated with artist and architect Max Jacobson on the video series 
/Guy: A Sad, Faced Paced Story/ and the chapbook /Dust Exchange/ (Slacks 
Books). Lorraine edits the Periodic Postcard, an art and text series 
distributed by the USPS.

*Kyle Schlesinger* is a poet, printer, and professor. His publications 
include /A New Kind of Country/ (Chax Press), /Color & Light /(Dusie), 
/None of Us/, a collaboration with Ted Greenwald (Kin Press), and /A 
Poetics of the Press/ (Ugly Duckling Presse). He resides in Austin, 
where he serves as the proprietor of Cuneiform Press.

*Rodney Koeneke*'s most recent book of poems, /Body & Glass/, appeared 
from Wave Books in 2018. Other collections include /Etruria/ (Wave), 
/Musee Mechanique/, and /Rouge State/. His work can be found in the 
/Chicago Review, Fence, Granta, Harper's, The Nation, Poetry/, and on 
the Poetry Foundation's blog, /Harriet/. He lives in Portland, OR.

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*Lisa Fishman*'s debut fiction collection, /World Naked Bike Ride/, has 
just been released by Gaspereau Press (Canada). Her seven books of 
poetry include /Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition/ (Wave), /24 Pages 
and other poems/ (Wave), /F L O W E R C A R T/ and /The Happiness 
Experiment/, both from Ahsahta Press. Fishman lives on her farm and 
orchard in Orfordville as well as in Madison; currently she also directs 
the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.

*Richard Meier* has published five books of poetry: /A Duration/ (Wave 
2023), /February March April April/ (Oxeye), /In the Pure Block of the 
Whole Imaginary/ (Omnidawn), /Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar/ (Wave), and 
/Terrain Vague/ (Verse). In recent years he has practiced and taught 
workshops on writing and walking and other daily and durational writing 
practices. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at 
Carthage College and lives in Somers and Madison, WI.

*Joshua Beckman* was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of 
a number of books including /Animal Days/ and /Tomaž/, a long 
biographical poem about the young life of Tomaž Šalamun, both from Wave 
Books, and most recently /Firefly/ from The Brother in Elysium and 
/Poetry Summaries/ (with Alejandro de Acosta) from Mufa Poema. He is the 
editor-in-chief of Wave Books.

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/Upcoming events at Passages Bookshop:/

Saturday 3/18 /Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound/
*Gust Burns & dana jnnfrsn (James Yeary & Andy Smith)

*Friday 4/7 /Spare Room Reading Series
/*Kit Schluter & Tatiana Lipkes

*Saturday 4/15 /Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
/**//***Susan Gevirtz & David Abel*

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1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665

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