The William Stafford Commemorative Birthday Event--Readings & Presentations

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.