News
What:
Award-winning Oregon poets Paulann Petersen, Carlos Reyes and Celeste Thompson, along with Portland State graduate students Lacey Young, Patrick Haas, Jeff Alessandrelli and Caitlin Channell, will be featured at a Portland State Library poetry reading event honoring the birthday of the late poet William Stafford. The poets will read their own works as well as one or two of their favorite Stafford poems. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite Stafford poem to share. PSU Professor Emeritus Shelley Reece will host this Artists & Writers event at the PSU Library.
When:
January 26, 2007, 7 p.m.
Where:
First floor of the PSU Millar Library (1875 S.W. Park Ave.).
Cost:
Admission is free and open to the public.
Contact:
For more information contact Kimberly Willson-St. Clair at 503-725-4552 or willsons@pdx.edu.
Background:
William Stafford was an extremely prolific writer, authoring 67 volumes in his 79 years. Stafford won the Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America, served as the Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress (1970-71) and was appointed Oregon Poet Laureate in 1975 by Governer Tom McCall. He died in his Oregon home in 1993. For more information on William Stafford and other birthday events, visit www.williamstafford.org.
Portland State University’s library supports the information, research, teaching and learning needs for over 1,800 faculty members and 25,000 students at Portland State University. The PSU Library has over 1.3 million volumes, and subscribes to more than 8,000 journals and 6,000 electronic journals.
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