| 1600 Louisiana St, Longview, WA
98632 |
360.442.5300 |
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.
Previous Events
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Kim Stafford |
| January 26, 2012 |
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Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft and Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford. He serves as the literary executor for the Estate of William Stafford, and teaches frequently at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology and the Fishtrap Gathering.
Also, Joe Green will show his and Marquita Green’s prize-winning 2010 broadside of “Meditation” by William Stafford, and will discuss broadsides in general. Community members will read William Stafford poems, and there will be a short open mike period for the audience to read their own poems or poems by other authors. Afterwards, there will be cake and punch.
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Mary Doria Russell |
| October 12, 2011 |
| The daughter of a Navy nurse and a Marine Corps drill sergeant, Mary Doria Russell's early talent for a "dismaying" vocabulary turned into a writing career that includes four bestselling novels and numerous international awards. Her fifth novel, Doc, explores the life of Wyatt Earp and gambler/dental surgeon John Henry Holliday. Before she began writing, she earned a doctorate in biological anthropology and taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry. Her many awards include a Campbell Award, an Arthur C. Clarke Prize, an ALA Readers Choice Award, and a 2005 Pulitzer nomination for A Thread of Grace, her third novel. Russell currently lives in Ohio with her husband Don, a golden retriever named Leo Lebowski, and a tubby, opinionated daschund who answers to the name Annie Fannie Sweet Feet.
Her website.
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Jennifer Blomgren |
| October 3, 2011 |
| Jennifer Blomgren, the award-winning author of Where Do I Sleep?: a Pacific Northwest Lullaby, was born and raised in Forks, Washington, where her love of verse began while being read to by her parents. She now lives and works in Port Townsend, Washington. She has also written another picture book entitled Where Would I Be in an Evergreen Tree and a book for young adults entitled The Tale of Alice's Quilt. Jennifer also illustrates her own line of greeting cards, 24 Carrot, Inc. The idea for the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Book Award-winning Where Do I Sleep came to her one night, and she wrote most of it in one sitting. She loves nature walks, gardening, and her dog Joe. |
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Peter Rock |
| May 10, 2011
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| Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He is the author of the novels My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves, and a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared widely. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other awards, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Reed College. |
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Lana Hechtman Ayers |
| January 31, 2011 |
| Lana Hechtman Ayers is a local poet from Kingston, Washington. She runs Night Rain Poetry, publishes the Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series, and is Poetry Editor of Crab Creek Review. She has won several awards for her poetry collections, and has been published in many journals. |
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Naseem Rakha |
| October 18, 2010 |
| Naseem Rakha is the author of The Crying Tree.
Naseem is an award-winning journalist whose stories have been heard on NPR's All
Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace Radio, Christian Science Monitor, and
Living on Earth. Prior to journalism Naseem taught Holistic Resource Management to
farmers, ranchers and tribes throughout the US and Canada. Naseem is a graduate of
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where she received her degree in Geology.
She now lives in Oregon with her husband, son, and many animals. When Naseem isn't
writing, she's reading, knitting, hiking, gardening, collecting rocks, or just watching the
seasons roll in and out. |
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Ken Scholes |
| April 19, 2010 |
| Scholes, the author of the fantasy novels Lamentation and Canticle, was the featured artist for April. Ken Scholes grew up in a small logging town not far from the base of Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest. After a long break away from writing, Ken returned to it after logging time as a sailor, soldier, preacher, musician, label gun repairman, retail manager and nonprofit director. He won the Writers of the Future contest in 2004. Ken lives near Portland with his wife and twin daughters. |
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Floyd Skloot |
| January 25, 2010 |
| Floyd Skloot is the author of 15 books, among them The Evening Light, Approximately Paradise, The End of Dreams, and his newest, The Snow's Music. He has won numerous awards, including The PEN USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction; the Independent Publishers Book Award in Creative Nonfiction; two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards in poetry; Oregon Book Awards in both Creative Nonfiction and Poetry; and three Pushcart Prizes. Learn more about Floyd Skloot. |
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Nena Baker |
| October 20, 2009 |
| Nena Baker is the author of The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being. Nena Baker graduated from Lewis and Clark College in 1981 and made her career as a reporter and an editor for a number of magazines and newspapers before turning to books. "These days, I live in Portland with my partner, two dogs, and three cats. I've reluctantly agreed to quit bringing home stray pets. So I write, practice yoga, and work part-time as a licensed private investigator." Visit her website. |
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May's Vote |
| May 4, 2009 |
"Give women the vote!" Go back 100 years to spend an evening with two Washington State Suffragettes--prim and proper Emma Smith Devoe (portrayed by Barbara Callander) and outrageous and flamboyant May Arkwright Hutton (portrayed by Toni Douglass)--as they work together towards a common goal, that of getting women of Washington State the right to vote.
Barbara Callander and Toni Douglass each bring over 25 years of professional acting experience to their performances. Ms. Douglass, a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, has performed in theatres throughout the western United States. She is also an established director, playwright, and teacher.
A graduate of Oberlin College, Ms. Callander has appeared with theatres nationwide, and has also worked extensively as an arts administrator. Together, Barbara Callander and Toni Douglass have been touring original plays about women's history for over a decade. |
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Molly Gloss |
| March 9, 2009 |
Molly Gloss was 2009's Cowlitz Reads author, part of an annual celebration of literacy in Cowlitz County.
The prize-winning author, Molly Gloss, is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland. The Hearts of Horses, her fourth novel, is the moving tale of a young woman breaking horses for several ranchers in northeastern Oregon in the winter of 1917. The book addresses themes of war, alcoholism, illness and death, commitment to the land, and a sometimes lonely, often harsh way of life. It is a story not soon forgotten.
The Cowlitz Reads project is supported by a grant from the Washington State Library with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. |
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Last updated January 27th, 2012
