Central Library hosts readings and presentations commemorating
Oregon's late poet .
Featured Participants:
Joel Nightingale Berning presents William
Stafford as a Minister. Mr. Berning is a third-year Master of
Divinity student at Union Theological Seminary in New York
City.
Kate Gray published her first full-length book
of poems, Another Sunset We Survive, in 2007, and was a
finalist for the Oregon Book Award.
Carlos Reyes is a noted poet, writer and
translator whose latest book of poetry, The Book of Shadows;
New and Selected Poems, was published in 2009.
Penelope Scambly Schott has published several
books, including A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs
the Commonwealth, which won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for
Poetry.
Joseph A. Soldati, host for the program, has
published poems and essays. Recent among his published books is
Apocalypse Clam.