Every Friday from 6 to 8pm, bring your portable handwork and join us for companionship and conversation.  Needle and fiber crafts, small home decor projects, model railroading, and many other activities have put in appearances at our Craft Night.

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Allison Cobb and Kaia
Sand will read from their newest collections. Each just-released book shares
several features: each combines essay-writing with poetry to investigate the
political history of a specific place (for Cobb, Green-Wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn New
York; and for Sand, the Expo
Center in Portland), making connections to our present
moment.

In Green-Wood,
Allison Cobb wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth century Green-Wood Cemetery
and discovers that its 500 acres--hills and ponds, trees and graves--mirror the
American landscape: a place marked by death but still pulsing with life.
Through the lens of Green-Wood, the book explores the history of the American
landscape, changing attitudes toward the land, and the impacts of private
property, industrial poisons, and war. This is history and poetry, a
testament to what survives and an elegy for what is lost--the long dead, the
landscape itself, but especially those who died in the twin towers and in the United States’
ongoing wars.

Sand takes the reader
on a guided tour of Portland,
Oregon's hidden histories—those
of the internment of Japanese-Americans, the shunting of African Americans into
the part of the city that floods. “Do we need our ruins visible?” asks Kaia
Sand.  “I carry old maps, but sometimes the space seems illegible because
reclaimed wetlands and construction changed the shape of the land.  I
cross-check books and oral histories and photographs.  I imagine.” Her
book is composed of essays, a poetry walk, and poems that rise out of documents
like histories from a nearly-forgotten past.  Sand shows us how a past can
be re-visioned through research and the poetic imagination.

Allison Cobb is the
author of the poetry collection Born2 (Chax Press) about growing up
in Los Alamos, New Mexico,
(birthplace of the atomic bombs) and the just-published Green-Wood,
a work of poetic nonfiction (Factory
School). She lived for
many years in Brooklyn, New York, where she worked for an
environmental organization. She now lives in Portland.

Kaia Sand is the author of a poetry
collection, interval (Edge Books 2004), and co-author with Jules Boykoff of
Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press 2008), and
she has created several chapbooks through the Dusie Kollektiv. Her poems lotto
and tiny arctic ice comprise the text of two books in Jim Dine’s Hot Dreams
series (Steidl Editions 2008). She lives in Portland, Oregon,
with Jules Boykoff and their daughter, Jessica.

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