[Local events] Reminder: Saturday 6/8, Conoley, Mattraw, Rosenthal & Witte

[David Abel]

*Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by*

    *GILLIAN CONOLEY*

    *ALEX MATTRAW*

    *SARAH ROSENTHAL &*

    *VALERIE WITTE*

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*Saturday, June 8*

*7:30 pm*

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


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

info at passagesbookshop.com
503-388-7665

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Gillian Conoleyis a poet, editor, and translator. Often comprising 
narrative, lyric, and fragmented forms, her work takes up an inquiry 
into spirit and matter, the individual and the state. The author of ten 
collections of poetry, including Notes from the Passenger(Nightboat 
Books, 2023) Conoley received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry 
Society of America, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Fund 
for Poetry Award. Conoley has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ 
Workshop, the University of Denver, Vermont College, Tulane, and Sonoma 
State University. A long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, 
she is editor of VOLT magazine. Her translation of three books by Henri 
Michaux, Thousand Times Broken, appearing in English for the first time, 
is with City Lights. Conoley has collaborated with installation artist 
Jenny Holzer, composer Jamie Leigh Sampson, and Butoh dancer Judith 
Kajuwara. https://www.gillianconoley.com/ <https://www.gillianconoley.com/>


Alex Mattrawis the author of the poetry collectionsRaw Anyone 
<https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780999491287/raw-anyone.aspx>(2022), 
We fell into weather(2020), and small siren(2018), all with Brooklyn’s 
Cultural Society. Her poems and/or reviews have appeared in places 
including The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket2, Lana Turner, Tupelo Quarterly, and 
VOLT. A frequent collaborator with other writers, Alex is currently 
working with photographer Adam Thorman on VOIDS, a book-length text + 
image dialogue that will have a partial feature in the next issue of 
POSIT. She is also the founder and curator of the decade old Bay Area 
reading, art, and performance series, Lone Glen 
<https://loneglen.com/>.<http://alexandramattraw.com/>http://alexandramattraw.com 
<http://alexandramattraw.com>


Sarah Rosenthalis the author ofEstelle Meaning Star, Lizard, Manhatten, 
and two books in collaboration with Valerie Witte: One Thing Follows 
Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life Through the Lens of Simone 
Forti and Yvonne Rainerand The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow. 
She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard 
Writers of the Bay Area. Her collaborative filmWe Agree on the Sun 
<http://www.sarahrosenthal.net/weagreeonthesun>has received numerous 
accolades including Best Experimental Short, Berlin Independent Film 
Festival. A new collaborative film, Lizard Song, based on Sarah's book 
Lizard, is in post-production. She has received the Leo Litwak Fiction 
Award, a Creative Capacity Innovation Grant, a San Francisco Education 
Fund Grant, and residencies at This Will Take Time, Hambidge, New York 
Mills, Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, and Ragdale, as well as a 
two-year term as Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She 
is a Life & Professional Coach and a project manager at Collaborative 
Classroom.


Valerie Witteis the author of multiple poetry and hybrid books, 
including A Rupture in the Interiors(Airlie, 2023) and, in collaboration 
with Sarah Rosenthal, The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow, the 
first of a two-part project exploring the work of postmodern 
dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. The second book in 
the project, a collection of experimental essays, is One Thing Follows 
Another,forthcoming in 2024. She is currently an editor at Airlie Press. 
More atvaleriewitte.com <http://valeriewitte.com/>.

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