[Local events] Sat 3/9: Corless-Smith, Gizzi, & Hall

[David Abel]

/Spare Room & Passages Bookshop present a poetry reading by/

    *Martin Corless-Smith*
    *Peter Gizzi*
    *Alice Hall*

*Saturday, March 9*
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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Upcoming Events at Passages*

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: Keats/Endymion /&//Boone /Century of Clouds/

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*Martin Corless-Smith* was born in Worcestershire, England, and studied 
painting at the University of Reading, before moving to the USA, where 
he obtained an MFA in painting/printmaking at Southern Methodist 
University, an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ 
Workshop and a Ph.D at the University of Utah. He teaches on the 
Creative Writing programme at Boise State University and edits the Free 
Poetry imprint. He is the author of 13 books, most recently /The 
Melancholy of Anatomy/ (Shearsman), /The Poet's Tomb, Essays/ (Parlor 
Press), and /Odious Horizons: Some Versions of Horace/ (Miami University 
Press).

*Peter Gizzi *is the author of /Fierce Elegy/ (2023), /Now It’s Dark/ 
(2020), and /Archeophonics/, all from Wesleyan UP. In 2020 Carcanet 
published /Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems/ and later this year, 
Penguin UK will bring out an expanded edition of /Fierce Elegy/. Editing 
projects have included /The House That Jack Built: The Collected 
Lectures of Jack Spicer/ (Wesleyan, 1998); and with the late Kevin 
Killian, /My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack 
Spicer/ (Wesleyan, 2008). He teaches poetry and poetics at the 
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Alice Hall *is the author of /Universal Casket/ (Quarterly West 2021) 
and is a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo’s Poetics Program. Her work can 
be found in/ P-QUEUE, Poets.org, Quarterly West, Prelude, The Yalobusha 
Review, DIAGRAM/, & other venues. Her newest project is a collection of 
hand-bound artist's books considering the destruction of the streetcar 
system in Buffalo, New York, titled /THE SKY IS FULL OF VIOLENCE/. She 
teaches writing at Portland Community College.





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