When:  Third wednesday of each month at 7 p.m.

Where:  The 100th Monkey Studio at 110 S.E. 16th Ave., Portland, OR 97214

What:  Two featured readers each month plus open mic. time (two page max for open mic. readers)

Hosts:  Steve Williams & Constance Hall

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June 16, 2010: Alison Apotheker & Sid Miller

July 21, 2010: Join us for our next event on July 21st at the 100th Monkey for the invasion from the east.  Leanard Orr and Pamela Steele will make the drive down the gorge to our reading from Tri-Cities WA, and Pendleton, OR.  Maybe they'll even carpool :).  And as always, open mic,  a writing prompt, cookies  and other fun.

Pamela Steele was born in her grandfather’s house on the banks of Laurel Creek in West Virginia.  At age six months, her parents took her across the Divide on a train to eastern Oregon, and she has been traveling back and forth since. On one of those trips, she received an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.  She has been a recipient of Jentel Arts and Fishtrap fellowships, and her work has appeared in Rattapallax, High Desert Journal and Rosebud magazines, among others. Published Books:  Paper Bird, Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007

Leonard Orr is Academic Director of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the Tri-Cities campus of Washington State University. He is the author or editor of thirteen books of literary criticism or critical theory. His most recent books are Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism (Syracuse University Press, 2008), and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (Continuum, 2009).  He was named the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English (2005-08).  His poetry has appeared in many journals including Black Warrior Review, Fugue, Poetry International, Poetry East, Natural Bridge, Isotope, Midwest Poetry Review, Pontoon, Rosebud, and Rocky Mountain Review.  His poetry chapbook, Daytime Moon, was published in 2005 and his most recent book, Why We Have Evening, was published by Cherry Grove/WordTech in 2010. He was a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and was a semifinalist for the Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and the William Stafford Poetry Prize. He has been a featured reader in many venues throughout the state, and he has led poetry workshops at the Burning Word Poetry Festival and elsewhere.   He hosts the open mic and featured poet events at Washington State University Tri-Cities and served as president of the Washington Poets Association for three years. In recent years, he has taken up painting abstracts and had his work featured in a solo-exhibition of fifty paintings in 2007. Both his poetry and painting utilize a similar aesthetic based in spontaneity, surprise, and passion.
 

August 18, 2010: Christopher Luna & Toni Partington

September 15, 2010: Crystal Williams