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Roman, Times, serif"><i>Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i>a reading and book
launch with</i></font><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Christopher
Luna<br>
Brittney Corrigan<br>
Claudia Saleeby Savage<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <b>Saturday,
September 16</b></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> 7:30 pm </font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <a
href="https://www.passagesbookshop.com"><b>Passages Bookshop</b></a></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> 1801 NW Upshur, Suite
660</font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> 503-388-7665</font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Doors open at 7:00 pm;
no late entry<br>
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</font><b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Free
admission</font></b><br>
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</b></font>Please join us in celebrating the publication of
new books by three Portland-area poets:<br>
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<blockquote><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.lightshippress.com/books/p/voracity-by-christopher-luna"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><i>Voracity</i></b>
(Lightship Press)</font></a><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">by Christopher Luna<br>
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href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/solastalgia-brittney-corrigan/19865356?aid=37596&ean=9781737513483&listref=forthcoming-20b40a9b-c321-4159-8d51-1669c78813f6"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><i>Solastalgia</i></b>
(Jackleg Press)</font></a><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">by Brittney Corrigan</font><br>
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href="https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/metal-beauty-alone"><b><i>Metal
Used for Beauty Alone</i></b> (The Poetry Box)</a></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">by Claudia Saleeby
Savage</font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Books will be available
for purchase.<br>
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<br>
Christopher Luna</b> is a collage artist, poet, editor,
writing coach, and teacher. <br>
Luna served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA
from 2013-2017;<br>
he has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics, and is the co-founder, <br>
with Toni Lumbrazo Luna, of Printed Matter Vancouver, an editing
service and small press <br>
for Northwest writers. He and Morgan Paige co-host the LGBTQ+
friendly, all ages,<br>
and uncensored Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic in Vancouver, WA,
founded by Christopher<br>
in 2004. He is the editor of <i>The Work</i>, a monthly poetry
newsletter created to inform poets <br>
about events in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA. <br>
<br>
<b>Brittney Corrigan</b> is the author of the poetry collections
<i>Breaking</i>, <i>Navigation</i>, <i>40 Weeks</i>, <br>
<i>Daughters</i>, and most recently, <i>Solastalgia</i>, a
collection of poems exploring climate change, <br>
extinction, and the Anthropocene age. Brittney was raised in
Colorado and has lived in <br>
Portland, Oregon for the past three decades, where she is an
alumna and employee of <br>
Reed College. She is currently at work on her first short story
collection.<br>
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<b>Claudia Saleeby Savage</b> is one-half of the sound-text
performance duo Thick In The <br>
Throat Honey and an emeritus fellow of The Black Earth
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serif">Arab American poet, <br>
essayist, and performer, s</font>he is on the boards of the
experimental theatre organization <br>
BOOM Arts and the Literary Arts Youth Council, and h</font>er
poems and interviews have been <br>
published widely. She has an M.A. in Asian literature and
women’s studies and is deeply <br>
grateful for her time spent studying with the incomparable Max
Regan and brilliant <br>
Alice Notley. Throughout her writing life, she has revitalized
her practice through <br>
collaboration with visual artists, musicians, dancers and other
writers.<br>
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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
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