Notable Portland: 1/31–2/6
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Posts Tagged: Carl Adamshick
Notable Portland: 7/13–7/19
Thursday 7/13: Tavern Books is proud to present a bilingual reading by Caroline Wilcox Reul and guests to celebrate the launch of Who Lives, Elisabeth Borchers’s book translated from its original German. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 7 p.m., free. Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic presents Oakland poets Tongo Eisen-Martin and Derek Fenner for their monthly reading. […]
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Thursday 6/1: Enjoy a pop-up shop and reading for First Thursday for the Flock anthology. Readers will include Megan Griffith, Ameena Lacey-Viet, Ann Petroliunas, Rob Savela, and others. Composition Gallery, 6 p.m., free. Slamlandia! Hosts its June Poetry open mic and slam. Hawthorne Hot Lips Pizza, 6 p.m., $1–5 suggested donation.
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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
Women in Clothes, the sexism of Haruki Murakami, and poems about Gertrude Stein and desire.
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Meet Invincible Eric. Then, Matthew Daddona reviews Carl Adamshick’s “empathetic” collection, Saint Friend. The poet employs a “smooth and elegiac rhetoric that is more concerned with sonic repetition than it is flawless consistency.” Adamshick’s book is worth a look for its “flair,” its “speed,” and its willingness to experiment with form. And in the Sunday […]
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Saint Friend by Carl Adamshick
Matthew Daddona reviews Carl Adamshick’s Saint Friend today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Carl Adamshick
[Adamshick’s] disinterest in self-promotion is plain, and the interview should be read with his tone in mind: wary, self-depreciating, somewhat amused.
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The Mathematician She’s taken to sleeping late. Only recently have I come to stare on her as phenomenon.
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