Poetry Downtown

Tuesday, February 20, and Monday, March 19, 6:30-8:30 pm

Literary Arts and the Northwest Writing Institute invite you to brighten Portland’s mid-winter and early spring landscape with an immersion in poetry. Each year, Literary Arts presents Poetry Downtown with readings by four of the nation’s finest poets in an intimate downtown setting (to review poets visit http://www.literary- arts.org). This year, the NWI inaugurates two discussion sessions in conjunction with the four-part Poetry Downtown series. Each session offers an introduction to and exploration of two poets from the series.

Sessions:

• Mark Strand and Kevin Young (2/20) led by Jerry Harp and Mary Szybist
  
• Carolyn Forche and Charles Simic (3/19) led by Judith Barrington

Fees: $25 session
Location: Wieden and Kennedy Building, 224 NW 13th

For more information or to register contact:
The William Stafford Center
Lewis & Clark Graduate School
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road,
Portland, OR 97219
location: SCCC 114
phone: 503-768-6162
fax: 503-768-6165
e-mail: wilstaff@lclark.edu