Isolated\, impoverished\, primitive mountain village of La Vista called them “miracles.” For seven years on the first of March some villager suffered tragedy. A terrible misfortune -- softened for a victim only by neighbors’ caring compassion – it created miraculous beans-and-corn prosperity for a year in normally starving La Vista.
Another Miracle time is approaching. A young man rides down the mountain and announces to village leaders he’s a teacher\, ordered by the government’s anti-illiteracy campaign to start a school in La Vista. He’s exiled there for leading student riots\, and wants only to go back to college. He's confused as villagers ask him “How can we eat reading and writing?”
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Books available at the reading or you can order it online below.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T162436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T030000Z UID:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-poetry-ingrid-wendt-and-ralph-salisbury URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-poetry-ingrid-wendt-and-ralph-salisbury SUMMARY:Author Reading\: Poetry by Ingrid Wendt and Ralph Salisbury DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Wendt's first book of poems\,Moving the House\, was selected by William Stafford for the New Poetsof America Series. Subsequent award winning books include Singing theMozart Requiem\, The Angle of Sharpest Ascending\, and Surgeonfish. Wendt co-edited In Her Own Image\: Women Working in the Arts and From Here We Speak\: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. Her most recent book ofpoems\, Evensong\, was published in 2011. Ingrid Wendt lives in Eugene\,
Oregon\, with her husband\, poet and fiction writer Ralph Salisbury.
Ralph Salisbury’s tenth book ofpoems\, Light from a Bullet Hole\: Poems New &\; Selected 1950-2008\, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. It was published the same year as his third book of stories\, The Indian Who Bombed Berlin. Both his fiction and poetry evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage and his life as a questing human in a violent world.
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Books available at the reading.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T162436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120127T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120127T030000Z UID:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-robert-arellano URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-robert-arellano SUMMARY:Author Reading\: Robert Arellano DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T162436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120131T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120131T030000Z UID:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-kathryn-kay-reads-gilder URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-kathryn-kay-reads-gilder SUMMARY:Author Reading\: Kathryn Kay reads from The Gilder DESCRIPTION:Art restorer Marina Nesmith's life seems flawless\, but Marina is conscious of what she lacks – especially the courage to tell her teenage daughter\, Zoe\, the truth about her father. Then Marina is invited to return to Florence\, where she learned her trade as a gilder years ago. Now\, as past and present collide\, Marina must find the life that she – and Zoe – have been looking for.
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Books available at the reading or you can order it online below.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T162436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T030000Z UID:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/carlos-reyes-poetry-reading URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/carlos-reyes-poetry-reading SUMMARY:Carlos Reyes\, Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Poet\, translator\, publisher Carlos Reyes will read from his brand new book\, Pomegranate\, Sister of the Heart\, and other works on Monday night\, Feb. 13th at 7\:00.
Reyes\, from Portland\, has been an institution in Oregon literature for decades\, and has appeared in Southern Oregon reading venues and schools many times.
His other recent books are The Book of Shadows\: New &\; Selected Poems and his translation of Mexican poet Ignacio Ruiz-Perez’s The Sign of the Crow.
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Books available at the reading or you can use the links above to order online.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T162436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T030000Z UID:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-randy-ellison URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-reading-randy-ellison SUMMARY:Author reading\: Randy Ellison DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR