The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour
The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour brings writers to the Cook Memorial Library in La Grande, 2006 Fourth St.,for author readings and free writing workshops. Oregon Book Awards authors Toni Hanner, Ismet Prcic and Carter Sickels will offer free writing workshops, followed by a reading and panel discussion with all three writers at 3:00 p.m. Workshop: Get Ready to Write!, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. This fast-paced poetry workshop will focus on generating new first drafts and is appropriate for beginning writers as well as those with more experience. You will go home with some new tools and ideas for...
Read MoreCelebrate National Poetry Month with Northwest author
LA GRANDE, Ore. (EOU) – Visiting writer Keetje Kuipers will read from her poetry collection “Beautiful in the Mouth” for the Ars Poetica Lecture Series at EOU Tuesday, Apr. 16. The free, public reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Pierce Library Reference Room and is in celebration of National Poetry Month. A book signing will follow. “Beautiful in the Mouth” was published in 2010 and is Kuipers first collection of poems. According to the author, “Poems are beautiful, necessary attempts… [to] declare ourselves over and over again, and still never really find a way to understand...
Read More“basalt” features art of Morris Graves
The work of a famous Northwest modern painter decorates the pages of the new issue of “basalt,” Eastern Oregon University’s award-winning literary and fine arts magazine. Morris Graves was born in Fox Valley in rural Grant County in 1910, and by the 1930s was considered one of the most distinctive artists in Oregon and the entire region. Graves became an even greater sensation the moment his paintings appeared in the 1942 exhibit “18 Artists from 9 States” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artwork featured in “basalt” spans the years 1941-1995. “We’re fortunate...
Read MoreUnion County Fair Aug. 1-4
Party with the Animals at the Union County Fair! It is already the beginning of August in the Grande Ronde Valley, which means it is time once again for the Union County Fair, which will take place from Aug. 1-4, at the Union County Fair Grounds. With many of the crafters, bakers and 4-H folks entering the fruits of their labor into the competitions over the last couple of days, come Wednesday morning, the fair will be in full swing. Exhibitions will be up, animals will be in the barns, the carnival rides will be twirling, and the fried food will be wafting. So get down to the fair grounds...
Read MoreArs Poetica presents Author Brian Doyle
Popular essayist and award-winning author Brian Doyle will read from his book Mink River (OSU Press), in Huber Auditorium, Badgley Hall on May 22nd, 2012 at 7:30pm. The event is free and all are invited to attend his book will be available for purchase and signing following the reading. Brian Doyle is the author of many books, including Grace Notes, Spirited Men, Credo, Epiphanies and Elegies, Mink River, and The Grail: A year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,...
Read MoreAuthor Stewart Kirby to Read from REDWOODLAND
Stewart Kirby will read from his new book Redwoodland at the La Grande Public Library Colleen Johnson Community Room, 2006 Fourth Street (on the north side of the building). This free event will begin at 7:00 PM on Saturday, May 26. Kirby’s first print book Redwoodland begins with the alien abduction of Sam Hain to a parallel universe in the novelette “Drifting Room,” continues with a Hippie Grail myth in the novella “Cody and Heidi,” and culminates in the world’s largest amusement park and forest preserve of the future with the novelette “Redwoodland.” Terry LaBarba, author...
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