[Local events] Spare Room reading: Conoley, Mattraw, Rosenthal & Witte, Saturday 6/8

[Sam Lohmann]

*Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by*



*GILLIAN CONOLEYALEX MATTRAWSARAH ROSENTHAL &*

*VALERIE WITTE*


*Saturday, June 8*

*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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*Also Upcoming at Passages*
May 31      Jen Coleman, Joanna Fuhrman, Sarah Mangold, & Jesse Morse
(Spare Room reading)
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Gillian Conoley is 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/


Alex Mattraw is the author of the poetry collections Raw 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

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Estelle 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 Rainer and 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 film We 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 Witte is 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 at
valeriewitte.com.
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