Love to write? Love a challenge? Join us for the monthly Mini-SLEDGEHAMMER Writing
Contest! This month is a chance to stretch and sharpen those writing muscles before the biggun--the full-scale 36-hour SLEDGEHAMMER in September!
You'll be given four prompts\, and 36 minutes to work
them into a piece of impromptu short fiction. Stories will be judged\,
and winners will take home prizes. We'll provide notepads and nibbles\,
though you're welcome to bring your laptop. This event will start
promptly at 7\, so arrive a little early to fix yourself a plate and get
energized to write.
We would like to thank our partner\, Indigo Editing\, for cosponsoring this event!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T043903Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110813T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110813T200000Z UID:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/market-day-poetry-11-lisa-steinman-jim-shugrue-lex-runciman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/market-day-poetry-11-lisa-steinman-jim-shugrue-lex-runciman SUMMARY:Market Day Poetry #11\: Lisa Steinman\, Jim Shugrue\, & Lex Runciman DESCRIPTION:
Join us at noon each market Saturday through 15 October\, to enjoy a wide spectrum of expression from over 50 participating poets! Each reading is emceed by a different poet\, who in turn selects guest
readers. It's like opening a new magazine each week! The Market Day
Poetry Series is cosponsored by the St. Johns Farmers' Market\, and
curated by Portland poet Dan Raphael.
Lisa M. Steinman is a professor at Reed College and a co-editor of Hubbub.
She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Rockefeller
Foundation. Steinman has published three books about poetry\: Made in America from Yale University Press\, Masters of Repetition from St. Martin's Press\, and Invitation to Poetry (Blackwell\, 2008). She is also the author of five volumes of poetry\: Lost Poems\, All That Comes to Light\, A Book of Other Days\, Ordinary Songs\, and most recently\, Carslaw's Sequences (University of Tampa Press).
In addition to Floating Verses\, Jim Shugrue is the author of twoprevious chapbook\, Small Things Screaming (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award) an Icewater. He has received a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission and an Open Voice Award. His work is widely published and anthologized.
Born and raised in Portland\, Lex Runciman has lived most of his life in Oregon's Willamette Valley. He holds graduate degrees from the writing programs at the University of Montana and the University of Utah. Runciman taught for eleven years at Oregon State University and is now Professor of English at Linfield College\, where he received the Edith Green Award in teaching in 1997. His newest collection of poems is Starting from Anywhere (Salmon Poetry\, Ireland\, 2009). He is also the author of three earlier books of poems\: Luck (1981)\, The Admirations (1989) which won the Oregon Book Award\, and Out of Town (2004). He and Deborah Jane Berry Runciman have been married thirty-nine years and are the parents of two grown daughters.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T043903Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110816T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110816T190000Z UID:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/storytime-grammies-3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/storytime-grammies-3 SUMMARY:Storytime Grammies DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T043903Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110819T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110819T033000Z UID:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/sophia-van-buren-presents-illumination-how-one-woman-made-light-darkness URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/sophia-van-buren-presents-illumination-how-one-woman-made-light-darkness SUMMARY:Sophia van Buren presents Illumination\: How One Woman Made Light of the Darkness DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T043903Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110820T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110820T200000Z UID:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/market-day-poetry-12-margareta-waterman-marion-kimes-meg-mcmutchison URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/market-day-poetry-12-margareta-waterman-marion-kimes-meg-mcmutchison SUMMARY:Market Day Poetry #12\: Margareta Waterman\, Marion Kimes\, Meg McMutchison DESCRIPTION:
Join us at noon each market Saturday through 15 October\, to enjoy a
wide spectrum of expression from over 50 participating poets! Each
reading is emceed by a different poet\, who in turn sele...cts guest readers. It's like opening a new magazine each week. The Market Day Poetry Series is cosponsored by the St. Johns Farmers' Market\, and curated by Portland poet Dan Raphael.
Today's reading is hosted by Margareta Waterman\, poet\, publisher of Nine Muses Books\, and author of Iterations and other books. She is joined by Marion Kimes and Meg McMutchison.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T043903Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110827T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110827T200000Z UID:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/market-day-poetry-13-melissa-sillitoe-david-deserano-alexis-jewell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/event/market-day-poetry-13-melissa-sillitoe-david-deserano-alexis-jewell SUMMARY:Market Day Poetry #13\: Melissa Sillitoe\, David Deserano\, Alexis Jewell DESCRIPTION:
Join us at noon each market Saturday through 15 October\, to enjoy a wide spectrum of expression from over 50 participating poets! Each reading is emceed by a different poet\, who in turn sele...cts guest
readers. It's like opening a new magazine each week. The Market Day
Poetry Series is cosponsored by the St. Johns Farmers' Market\, and
curated by Portland poet Dan Raphael.
Melissa Sillitoe has read in this series before\, but this week\, as host\, she gets to pick her co-readers! She'll be joined by David Deserano and Alexis Jewell.
Very little is known about Mr. D.B. Deserano and Mr. D.B. Deserano
prefers to keep it that way. (With apologies to Mr. A.C. Weisbecker.)
Alexis
Jewell considers herself a wordsmith. She uses words in a unique way to
convey the truth\, and often the corresponding lie\, of life situations.
Alexis enjoys writing about social justice issues as way to comment on
and hopefully improve cultural awareness of oppression in society.