Northwest Voices is a collaboration between the Longview Public Library and Lower Columbia College. The Library welcomes this opportunity to bring community and writers together. Come listen, join in the dialog, and celebrate the voices of our region and our community.
Libraries and writers are natural community partners. Both seek to reach out to readers, to stimulate thinking, to engage people in the pursuit of ideas--the writer as creator and the library as enabler.
Funding comes from the Longview Public Library and the Longview Library Foundation, the Lower Columbia College Foundation, the Friends of the Longview Library, and the Associated Students of Lower Columbia College. All events are free and open to the public.
Coming Events
Earl Emerson
May 13, 2008
Campus Reading:
3 - 4:30 p.m
LCC, Admissions Center (ADC-143)
Public Reading: 7 p.m.
Longview Library, Auditorium
No one writes with the power, authority, and poetry that Earl Emerson has demonstrated in his action-packed novels about fire and the people who make their living fighting it. Besides writing two mystery series and several thrillers, he is a lieutenant in the Seattle Fire Department and lives in North Bend, Washington.
Emerson has won the Shamus Award, and he has also received an Edgar Award nomination for his work.
Primal Threat, his newest thriller, is delivered with the brawny, vivid, and lyrical style that makes Earl Emerson one of the most compelling storytellers of our time.
Visit Earl Emerson's website, or check out Earl Emerson titles at the library. As always, these events are free and open to the public.
Author photograph by Jeffrey Cantrell.
Recent Events
Knute Skinner, poet
April 16, 2008
Knute Skinner returns to Longview with his most recent book, Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007. Published in Ireland by Salmon Poetry, this collection contains new poems as well as work taken from thirteen previous books. The founding editor of The Bellingham Review, Skinner served as the director of and book editor for The Signpost Press, Inc., from 1977 to 1995. Having retired from Western Washington University, where he taught literature and poetry writing as Professor of English, Skinner now lives full-time in County Clare, Ireland, where he had previously spent part of each year since 1964.
