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this weekend for two events at Passages Bookshop:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i>Saturday
2/24 (7:30 pm)</i></font><b><font
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</font></b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/940793774089559">Poetry
Comics — a reading by Seann Patrick McCollum & Shin Yu
Pai</a><br>
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</b><i>Sunday 2/25 (4:00 pm)</i><b><br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2155871061428885">Books
& Prints from Nicaragua, with Eckhard Froeschlin</a></b></font><br>
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<b><i>Details below.</i></b><br>
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Spare Room & Passages Bookshop present a poetry reading and
book launch by</i><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Seann
Patrick McCollum<br>
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Shin Yu Pai<br>
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<b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Saturday, February 24</font></b><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">7:30 pm<br>
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late entry</font><br>
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<b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Passages Bookshop</font></b><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660</font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Portland, OR 97209</font><br>
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</font>Please join us as we celebrate the publication of two new
books of poetry comics: <b><i><br>
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<blockquote><b><i>Less Desolate </i>by Shin Yu Pai & Justin
Rueff<br>
&</b><br>
<b><i>Don't Chase Will Run</i> by Seann Patrick McCollum</b><br>
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<b>Shin Yu Pai</b> is currently Civic Poet of the City of Seattle.
She is the author of thirteen books, including most recently <i>No
Neutral </i>(Empty Bowl, 2023) and <i>Less Desolate</i> (Blue
Cactus Press, 2023). In 2021, Entre Rios Books published<i> ENSO</i>,
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 <i>Ten
Thousand Things</i>, which she produces for KUOW, Seattle's NPR
affiliate station. <br>
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Seann
McCollum</b> 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. <br>
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</font><i>Works on Paper presents</i><br>
<blockquote><b>The Matagalpa Artist' Printshop Project:</b><br>
<b>A Show-and-Tell with Eckhard Froeschlin</b><br>
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<b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Sunday, February 25</font></b><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">4:30 pm</font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Free admission</font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Doors open at 4:00 pm; no
late entry</font><br>
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<b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Passages Bookshop</font></b><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660</font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Portland, OR 97209</font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a
href="mailto:info@passagesbookshop.com" target="_blank"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">info@passagesbookshop.com</a></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">503-388-7665<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Eckhard Froeschlin</b>
is a German book artist, printmaker, and painter, proprietor of <b>Editions
Schwarze Seite</b>, and sometimes a somehow fanatical teacher. <br>
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Based on the sister-city relationship between Wuppertal, Germany,
and Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Eckhard founded the <b>Matagalpa
Artist' Printshop Project</b> in 1998, following a request by
two visiting artists from Matagalpa. <br>
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A first workshop proved that there was a stunning reservoir of
talent, and the will to continue as a group named <b>TallerContil</b>.
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Upcoming Events at Passages Bookshop</b><br>
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March 9 Alice Hall, Peter Gizzi, & Martin Corless-Smith<br>
March 16 Finnegans Wake performed by Neal Kosaly-Meyer<br>
March 23 Suzanne Stein, Mark Wallace, & Charity Yoro<br>
April<i> </i>3 Chris Daniels, Flavia Rocha, & Tom
DeBeauchamp<br>
April 7 Marathon reading of Bruce Boone, <i>Century of
Clouds</i> & John Keats, <i>Endymion</i><br>
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Passages Bookshop
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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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