[Local events] Reminder: This Weekend: Poetry Comics (McCollum & Pai) & Book/Prints from Nicaragua

[David Abel]

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Please join us this weekend for two events at Passages Bookshop:

    /Saturday 2/24 (7:30 pm)/*
    **Poetry Comics — a reading by Seann Patrick McCollum & Shin Yu Pai
    <https://www.facebook.com/events/940793774089559>

    */Sunday 2/25 (4:00 pm)/*
    Books & Prints from Nicaragua, with Eckhard Froeschlin
    <https://www.facebook.com/events/2155871061428885>*

*/Details below./*

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Spare Room & Passages Bookshop present a poetry reading and book launch by/

    *Seann Patrick McCollum
         &
    Shin Yu Pai
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*Saturday, February 24*
7:30 pm

Free admission
Doors open at 7:00 pm; no late entry

*Passages Bookshop*
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209

info at passagesbookshop.com
503-388-7665

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Please join us as we celebrate the publication of two new books of 
poetry comics: */
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    */Less Desolate /by Shin Yu Pai & Justin Rueff
        &*
    */Don't Chase Will Run/ by Seann Patrick McCollum*

*Shin Yu Pai* is currently Civic Poet of the City of Seattle. She is the 
author of thirteen books, including most recently /No Neutral /(Empty 
Bowl, 2023) and /Less Desolate/ (Blue Cactus Press, 2023). In 2021, 
Entre Rios Books published/ENSO/, a twenty-year survey of her work 
across creative disciplines, including book arts, photography, film, 
installation, and performance. She is the creator and host of the 
podcast /Ten Thousand Things/, which she produces for KUOW, Seattle's 
NPR affiliate station.

*Seann McCollum* is an artist lurking on the fringes of the Portland 
literary scene. That shadowy figure who sits in the back doodling while 
everyone schmoozes. A scavenger waiting for the other beasts to finish 
gorging so he can feast on the scraps. He has self-published thirty 
books of poetry, prose, and drawings.


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/Works on Paper presents/

    *The Matagalpa Artist' Printshop Project:*
    *A Show-and-Tell with Eckhard Froeschlin*

*Sunday, February 25*
4:30 pm

Free admission
Doors open at 4:00 pm; no late entry

*Passages Bookshop*
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209

info at passagesbookshop.com
503-388-7665

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*Eckhard Froeschlin* is a German book artist, printmaker, and painter, 
proprietor of *Editions Schwarze Seite*, and sometimes a somehow 
fanatical teacher.

Based on the sister-city relationship between Wuppertal, Germany, and 
Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Eckhard founded the *Matagalpa Artist' Printshop 
Project* in 1998, following a request by two visiting artists from 
Matagalpa.

A first workshop proved that there was a stunning reservoir of talent, 
and the will to continue as a group named *TallerContil*. From workshop 
to workshop, from simple woodcuts to etching, from single prints to book 
art, the project developed into a unique opportunity in Nicaragua, 
attracting professional artists from bigger cities. Book art proved to 
be essential in this poor country, where one person out of every ten 
writes poems, and would be glad to see them printed.

Due to the more recent political climate, part of the group has had to 
emigrate, and an in-person workshop seems impossible at this time. 
However, the artists continue making prints — for an annual fine print 
calendar, for — and especially artist's books in growing intensity, 
communicating with their German partner via the internet.

Eckhard will show a selection of (small, suitcase-size) prints and more 
than twenty artist's books from Matagalpa, and will accompany some 
remarks with a brief slideshow.

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Upcoming Events at Passages Bookshop*

March 9     Alice Hall, Peter Gizzi, & Martin Corless-Smith
March 16   Finnegans Wake performed by Neal Kosaly-Meyer
March 23   Suzanne Stein, Mark Wallace, & Charity Yoro
April//3       Chris Daniels, Flavia Rocha, & Tom DeBeauchamp
April 7       Marathon reading of Bruce Boone, /Century of Clouds/ & 
John Keats, /Endymion/

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Passages Bookshop
NEW MAILING ADDRESS
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665

fine, rare, and unusual
books and graphic art
poetry, avant-garde art
fine printing, artist's books

www.passagesbookshop.com
facebook.com/passagesbookshop
instagram.com/passages_bookshop
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