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SUMMARY:WITS End of Year Reading
DESCRIPTION:Youth Programs of Literary Arts is thrilled to debut the first virtual iteration of our annual WITS End of Year Reading to celebrate the work and contributions of the adults working behind the scenes to bring Writers in the Schools to life—our WITS writers\, teachers\, and partners. This event will be hosted by WITS Program Specialist\, Joanna Rose. Open to the public with registration in advance. Held via Zoom. \nRegister in Advance for this Event \n \n  \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/wits-end-of-year-reading/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Youth Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joanna%20Rose":MAILTO:joanna@literary-arts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200702T190000
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SUMMARY:Slamlandia Online
DESCRIPTION:We’re back with another poetry open mic – details to come! \nRegister in advance for this event on Zoom \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/slamlandia-online-3/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T183000
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020 Delve Online:  Nigerian Voices: Chinua Achebe and Helon Habila
DESCRIPTION:From the precolonial period to modern times\, these two authors show the complexity of Nigerian history: the original tribal forms of organizing the society\, where the strong man rules for good and for bad; the colonial era where those tribal communities transform in order to negotiate with the colonizers; and the postcolonial period that shows how the thirst for oil from the western powers also generates conflicts between the native peoples and a level of corruption that pervade every aspect of their lives. The transformations narrated in these two books are journeys of no return\, with echoes from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. \nTexts:\nThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe\nOil on Water by Helon Habila \nParticipants are responsible for purchasing texts. \nFirst assignment: For the first night we’ll discuss all of Part One—through page 125—of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/summer-2020-delve-online-nigerian-voices-chinua-achebe-and-helon-habila/
CATEGORIES:Delve Readers Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200708T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200708T140000
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020 Online: Starting The Story: Short Fiction workshop
DESCRIPTION:This 4 -week short fiction workshop will focus on generating new work and simply getting words down on a page.  We will read excerpts\, share just-written work aloud\, and discuss assigned weekly readings together. We will investigate ways to unearth material together and share strategies for maintaining a regular writing practice. Participants will leave will many fragments and several starts for new work.  This class takes place through Zoom. Participants will receive instructions on how to log on to the Zoom meetings. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions. \nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: Scholarships pay for the entire class tuition. All of our writing classes have at least one scholarship position available\, made possible by a generous gift from Dennis Steinman. To apply\, email Susan Moore\, Director of Programs for Writers\, at susan@literary-arts.org with your name\, contact information\, and list 1-3 classes in order of preference. Please note that preference is not guaranteed. All scholarships are subject to availability. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/spring-2020-online-starting-the-story-short-fiction-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200709T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200709T200000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020 Online: Starting the Novel
DESCRIPTION:Dive in to the first draft of your novel with confidence\, excitement\, and curiosity\, armed with tools to deal with doubt and writers block. This three week online class will include writing exercises\, feedback and a discussion of the variety of ways to begin a novel. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/summer-2020-online-starting-the-novel/
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200709T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200709T203000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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SUMMARY:Delve Online: Milan Kundera
DESCRIPTION:“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” \nExplore Czech writer Kundera alongside some of his inspirations. We will begin with his most famous work\, The Unbearable Lightness of Being\, reading both the original text and exploring major influences on this work\, through excerpts from Kafka and Nietzsche. We will also read his novel Immortality and short story collection Laughable Loves. We will discuss what is distinctive about Kundera’s style\, such as his lyrical writing and preoccupation with philosophical themes. Of course\, no discussion on Kundera would be complete without a discussion surrounding the thematic elements of totalitarianism and revolution.  \nReading List:\nThe Unbearable Lightness of Being\nImmortality\nLaughable Loves\nExcerpts from Nietzsche and Kafka (guide will provide PDFs to enrolled participants) \nBefore first meeting\, participants should read The Unbearable Lightness of Being \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/delve-online-milan-kundera/
CATEGORIES:Delve Readers Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200710T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200710T200000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020 Online: Finding Flow
DESCRIPTION:“So many of us believe in perfection\, which ruins everything else\, because the perfect is the enemy of the good; it is also the enemy of the realistic\, the possible\, and the fun.”\n~Rebecca Solnit \nCarving time and space to be attentive to our creative practice can be daunting at anytime\, during a pandemic\, when we’re struggling to juggle all our roles it’s even more difficult. Not only do we have to make the time\, which often means taking time away from our responsibilities\, but then\, once at our desk we must quiet our minds\, we have to release the tight grip of the mind that stands in the way. In this workshop we’ll spend some time building tools and resources to relieve the overwhelming pressure we put on ourselves. We will unpack the fear of failing and understanding that not producing is not only normal but even healthy at times. \nTogether we will visit some questions about our work. Why we write? Why we read? What’s at the root of our frozen moments? \nFeeling stuck is an opportunity to look at the way we work\, the way we talk to ourselves\, examine our expectations\, and be honest about what we can handle at this time. Join the instructor and your fellow students to write together\, to read\, to talk and laugh about our human experience and how we can get out of our way and get words on the page. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/summer-2020-online-finding-flow/
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T203000
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SUMMARY:Delve Online:  The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Metamorphosis
DESCRIPTION:In her book The Ethics of Ambiguity\, the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir asks us to consider what it means to exercise individual freedom and to live in community with others. Where does our individual freedom begin and end? Simone de Beauvoir claims that our personal freedom can be manifest only when we “will others free.” How do we create a life where we protect our individual freedom and work toward the freedom of our neighbor? Can both forms of freedom truly exist? \nde Beauvoir wrote The Ethics of Ambiguity in 1947\, and she questions and seeks to define personal ethics and freedom in the wake of Nazi atrocities and totalitarianism. We will read The Ethics of Ambiguity in its entirety. \nAt first glance\, Franz Kafka may seem like an odd pairing with Simone de Beauvoir but a step inside Kafka’s The Metamorphosis\, and it’s clear that we entering the mind of a character who seeks the type of personal freedom Simone de Beauvoir claims is available to us. \nParticipants will explore questions about freedom in our own lives: Can we be as free as we are “meant” to be despite the gaze and expectations of those around us? Can we be free as individuals even if we have jobs that bind us to institutions and norms that may run counter to our freedom? Can we live freely if those around us suffer? \nReading List: \nThe Ethics of Ambiguity by  Simone de Beauvoir (New Road Media) ISBN: 9781504054225 \nThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (VIZ Media) Translator: Susan Bernofsky \n(participants purchase their own books for the seminar) \nReading Schedule: \nClass 1: July 15 To be read for the first class  \n\nMetamorphosis p. 21-118 (Introduction and Afterward are not required)\n\nClass 2: July 22 \n\nThe Ethics of Ambiguity\n\n\n\n\nAmbiguity and Freedom\, p. 6-34\nPersonal Freedom and Others\, p. 35-73\n\n\n\n Class 3: July 29 \n\nThe Ethics of Ambiguity\n\n\nThe Positive Aspect of Ambiguity\, p. 74-78\nThe Aesthetic Attitude\, p. 74-77\nFreedom and Liberation\, p. 78-96\n\n\n\nClass 4:  Aug. 5  \n\nThe Ethics of Ambiguity\n\n\nThe Anatomies of Action\, p. 96-114\nThe Present and Future\, p. 115-128\nAmbiguity\, p. 129-155\nConclusion\, p. 156-159\n\n\n\n  \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/delve-online-the-ethics-of-ambiguity-and-the-metamorphosis/
CATEGORIES:Delve Readers Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T210000
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SUMMARY:Incite: Queer Writers Read
DESCRIPTION:The theme for July’s Incite is Justice! \nHosted by Kate Carroll de Gutes and Kate Gray \nSign up in advance here  \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/incite-queer-writers-read-10/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200716T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200716T200000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200616T155615Z
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020 Online:  Science\, Magic\, and the Mundane: Speculative Worlds and how to Write Them
DESCRIPTION:When we think of speculative words\, such as those found in science fiction\, high fantasy\, and urban fantasy\, we often wonder how the author managed to come up with fantastical ideas that are both believable and logical. We often don’t stop to think about how much of the scientific in our world could easily be considered magical\, or how our mundane life could also be seen as extraordinary. It’s easy enough to say that our technology would be fantastical to someone from a hundred years ago\, but what separates the current mundane from the current fantastical in our writing? In this class we will first examine modern technology\, current trends\, the natural world\, and popular beliefs\, and convert them to a magical viewpoint. Participants will create their own fantastical settings\, building on ewly discovered points of view\, and explore how building a speculative world often involves using the mundane. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/summer-2020-online-science-magic-and-the-mundane-speculative-worlds-and-how-to-write-them/
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200717T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200717T133000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T235358Z
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SUMMARY:Free 90 minute Letter Writing Session with Wendy Noonan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of personal writing in the company of others.  Sometimes the medium of *instant* messaging and emails  doesn’t do our deeper thoughts and feelings justice. If you would like to sit together in good company writing letters\, Wendy will provide examples\, strategies and prompts to inspire students to write from their intellect and feelings both. \nPre-registration is required. Click on this link to register: \n  \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/free-90-minute-letter-writing-session-with-wendy-noonan/
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes,Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200719T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200822T120000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
CREATED:20200615T222800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200615T223359Z
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020 Online:July Writer of Color Workshop
DESCRIPTION:For writers of color at all levels\nSearching for a space to create new work with fellow writers of color? This two-hour workshop meets on Zoom.  Writers can register for one or more sessions. A variety of prompts will be presented as avenues for generating and sharing new work in an informal setting. Open to writers of color at all levels writing in poetry\, fiction\, or nonfiction. You can also bring your own prompts and questions about the writing process\, and explore them with the group. Scholarships are available. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org for more information. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/summer-2020-onlinejuly-writer-of-color-workshop/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200719T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200719T120000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T160948Z
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020: Mastering Revision
DESCRIPTION:Revision is one of the most challenging parts of the writing process. How do we dig deeper and color in the edges to make our writing more evocative? How do we use the senses to make it come to life? What would happen if we approached the same material from a different point of view (third person as opposed to first-person say)? In this six-week class\, we will take an editor’s perspective on polishing our work.\nThe class will be structured as a mini-workshop and we will devote most of our time to peer reading and critique with an emphasis on elements of developmental editing as well as line editing. We will focus on refinement of style\, structure\, and content. Sentence-by-sentence\, paragraph-by-paragraph\, we will sharpen our tools for revision. Strong editorial feedback will be shared to help each writer shape and strengthen the material. Additional light reading will be assigned for class discussion but mostly we will concentrate on personal work. \n\n\n\nStudents should have a short prose piece they consider done (or close to) done. This can be excerpted or complete works of fiction or nonfiction\n\n\n\n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/spring-2020-mastering-revision/
LOCATION:OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T140000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
CREATED:20200121T051614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200529T173856Z
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SUMMARY:The Writers’ Gymnasium: The Writing Workout
DESCRIPTION:For writers at all levels\nThis class takes place online. Registered participants will receive information on how to access the Zoom meeting before the class starts.\nHow can we build a better writing practice? This prompt-driven generative workshop will give writers an opportunity to flex their literary muscles. Classes will provide an intimate\, structured\, and supportive time to broaden basic and complex writing skills. Through a series of experimental and innovative exercises we will explore the concepts of character\, setting\, plot and scene\, as well as voice\, form\, and technique. Close attention will be paid to literary and poetic devices as we take a deep dive into the craft of prose writing. Supportive in-workshop sharing and feedback will be an integral part of the process. All genres welcome. \nstrong>SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: Scholarships pay for the entire class tuition. All of our writing classes have at least one scholarship position available. \nTo apply for Scholarship positions\, e-mail Susan Moore\, Director of Programs for Writers\, at susan@literary-arts.org with your name\, contact information\, and the class you are interested in. Priority is given to students who have not taken classes with us before. Scholarships are awarded 1-2 weeks before the class begins.  All scholarships are subject to availability. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/the-writers-gymnasium-the-writing-workout/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, 925 SW Washington Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200804T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200804T203000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200604T162319Z
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SUMMARY:Delve Online: Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller and Death in the Andes
DESCRIPTION:“Opam-pogyakyena shinoshinonkarintsi. Me está mirando la tristeza.” \nNobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa is known for his prolific oeuvre\, particularly his long historical novels that portray different aspects and eras of Peru and other parts of Latin America; and yet\, his less-known shorter works are narrative gems that show the complexities of the human condition\, with characters that cross both geographic and fundamental inner boundaries. \nWe will discuss Death in the Andes and The Storyteller\, two books whose protagonists step outside of the predictability of their comfort zones and place themselves in remote communities\, where they will assume a radical life transformation. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/delve-online-mario-vargas-llosas-the-storyteller-and-death-in-the-andes/
CATEGORIES:Delve Readers Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200805T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200805T200000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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SUMMARY:Delve Online: Ritual\, Redemption\, and Epiphany
DESCRIPTION:This Delve will take place online via Zoom. Participants will receive information about how to connect with Zoom online. \nThis Delve Seminar explores the common human experiences of redemption and epiphany and the role that ritual can play in ushering in such profound moments. Through our texts\, we’ll examine how ritual can be used to protect societal structures as well as shift culture\, how the tension between what has been and what might be leads to necessary conflict within the self\, and how the power of acute experience ushers in clarity and the capacity for change.  \nWe will read two novellas\, The Dead by James Joyce and Babette’s Feast by Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)\, and a selection of short stories and poems by Alice Walker\, John Gardner\, Raymond Carver\, and others. Participants are responsible for purchasing their texts. Upon registration\, participants should acquire the two texts mentioned here; details about supplemental readings will be provided before the first session. \nDelve Access Program\nWe want Delve seminars to be accessible to everyone\, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. We are happy to offer an Access Program which provides reduced tuition to qualifying participants. Our Access Program offers Delve seminar registrations at a sliding scale amount of $45-$100 per registration.Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you would like to take a Delve at the Access Rate. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/delve-online-ritual-redemption-and-epiphany/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Delve Readers Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200806T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200806T193000
DTSTAMP:20200628T060224
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SUMMARY:Summer 2020 Online: Turning Life Into Fiction
DESCRIPTION:“Because something happened to you\, you own it. Tell your stories.\n~Anne Lamott \nOften\, when we set out to write a story we don’t know where to begin. In this class we will look at the wealth of possibility in our lives\, in our family life\, our work life\, or something a friend has told you that seems perfect fodder for fiction. What is a story that’s often retold to the point of folklore in your family? What is the anecdote that you trot out over a beverage with friends? In this class we will use life as the starter for stories to which we apply our imagination\, the skills in our writers’ toolbox\, and the joy that comes from being in charge of how the story ends! \nExplore turning your life stories free to the world of fiction. We will read some memoir and some short stories. We’ll apply writing exercises that stretch the boundaries and create something totally new. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/summer-2020-online-turning-life-into-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Writing Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200806T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200806T200000
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SUMMARY:Delve Summer 2020: The Case for Oregon Reparations
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most culturally-relevant examinations of America’s tradition of systematic economic exploitation\, particularly of Blacks. Published in 2016\, this Atlantic article\, which veers into being a short book in length\, looks at the foundational policies of the land: 400 years of slavery\, decades of Jim Crow and separate but equal that have set the scene for the massive disparties found in the coutry today. The real human collateral of America’s plunder sets the scene for the question of Coates’ question: why hasn’t the country made a serious attempt into\, at the very least\, examining reparations.\n\nWe will pair this reading with Portland State University professor Dr. Karen Gibson’s cutting delve into the effects of racist policies from 1940-2000 systematic disinvestment in of Blacks in N/NE Portland following the Vanort floods\, “Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment”. \nFinally\, throughout the seminar we will use lyrics from select songs off of Pulitzer-prize winning rapper\, Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 into Black life manifesto\, “To Pimp a Butterfly”. Released at the height of a growing national uprisings\, this album confronts America’s demons through raw first-person tales of race\, legacy\, money and heritage. \nThese works paired together will make for a conversation anchored in our city and state’s racist realities\, while providing an artistic and literary springboard for readers to grapple with the Black America in our own backyard. \nTexts: \n“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates \n“Bleeding Albina”: http://kingneighborhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BLEEDING-ALBINA_-A-HISTORY-OF-COMMUNITY-DISINVESTMENT-1940%E2%80%932000.pdf\n\n“To Pimp A Butterfly” by Kendrick Lamar\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDelve Access Program \nWe want Delve seminars to be accessible to everyone\, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. We are happy to offer an Access Program which provides reduced tuition to qualifying participants.  Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you would like to take this Delve at the Access Rate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:Delve Online:  Contemporary Korean Fiction
DESCRIPTION:A look at 3 contemporary Korean writers. From a haunting meditation on grief to a powerful examination on capitalism\, participants will discuss the themes that bind and distinguish these texts.Discussions will also focus on how translation affects our understanding of these novels as well as elements of Korean culture and current affairs that are uniquely reflected in these works. \nThis seminar is offered exclusively for people of color  \nReading List:\nThe White Book\, Han Kang\nThe Impossible Fairy\, Han Yujoo\nFamiliar Things\, Hwang Sok-Yong \nParticipants should read em>The Impossible Fairy before first class meeting. \n
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SUMMARY:William James: Inventing an American Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:The philosophy of William James (1842–1910) has had world-wide influence\, and yet it is in many ways an essentially American view of the nature and humanity. James was a psychologist by training. This study led him to develop his unique view of human experience\, out of which grew his profound concept of the nature of knowledge and reality as the way in which we act in the world and experience life. In this seminar\, we will discuss a few of James’s most important essays in general philosophy\, ethics\, psychology\, and religion in order to grasp the force of his simple but revolutionary ideas. \nThe Will to Believe by William James\nEssays in Radical Empiricism by William James \nDelve Access Program\nWe want Delve seminars to be accessible to everyone\, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. We are happy to offer an Access Program which provides reduced tuition to qualifying participants. Our Access Program offers Delve seminar registrations at a sliding scale amount of $45-$100 per registration.Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you would like to take a Delve at the Access Rate. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/william-james-inventing-an-american-philosophy/
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SUMMARY:J.R.R. Tolkien\, The Lord of the Rings
DESCRIPTION:Composed in the era of the Second World War\, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has become\, through various incarnations\, one of the best known stories in the world and also part of a larger system of myth and lore–thee so-called “Tolkien universe”–that also includes the Hobbit\, The Silmarillion\, and countless additional tales in prose and verse. The three volumes of The Lord of the Rings\, however\, are a distinct and remarkable literary accomplishment in their own right\, the summoning up of an entire narrative world (with its own contexts\, traditions\, languages\, civilizations\, personae\, and challenges)\, at once related to and distinct from the modern world of industry and war. Tolkien’s personal experience\, his deep immersion in modern philology\, his spiritual and historical affinities\, the tendencies of society in his time\, the cultural challenges of the modern era\, and the beauty of language and the capacity for wonder–all contributed to and are visible in the pages of Tolkien’s masterwork of Middle Earth. For these reasons\, too\, The Lord of the Rings deserves to be considered as part of a larger modernist project of counter-memory\, of presenting alternative ways of perceiving and understanding the present. \nOur purpose in this seminar is to read carefully and thoroughly the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings\, and to give our attention to the literary qualities of these books\, their value as works of literature\, and their place in modern literature and culture. Even with their limitations (which are considerable)\, these are unique and beautifully written books which reward close and dedicated attention. \nDelve Access Program\nWe want Delve seminars to be accessible to everyone\, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. We are happy to offer an Access Program which provides reduced tuition to qualifying participants. Our Access Program offers Delve seminar registrations at a sliding scale amount of $45-$100 per registration.Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you would like to take a Delve at the Access Rate. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/j-r-r-tolkien-the-lord-of-the-rings/
LOCATION:Literary Arts\, 925 SW Washington Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Portland Arts & Lectures 2020/21 Season
DESCRIPTION:Literary Arts is pleased to announce the author line-up for the 2020/21 Season of Portland Arts & Lectures. Subscriptions start at just $90 for the series. Subscribe today! \n  \nAt this time\, all lectures are scheduled to take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.  \n  \nOCTOBER 13\, 2020\nHelen Macdonald is a writer\, poet\, illustrator\, naturalist\, and historian of science. Her best-selling memoir H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her forthcoming essay collection\, Vesper Flights\, explores the human relationship to the natural world. \nDECEMBER 3\, 2020\nYaa Gyasi is the author of the forthcoming novel\, Transcendent Kingdom. Her best-selling debut novel\, Homegoing (2016)\, is an intergenerational saga following two split branches of a Ghanaian family through three hundred years of history. Homegoing won numerous awards\, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book. \nJANUARY 28\, 2021\nMadeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller’s reimaginings of these ancient Greek myths are widely acclaimed: The Song of Achilles won the 2012 Orange Prize\, and Circe was a #1 New York Times bestseller\, won the 2019 Indie Choice Award\, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, and was named on numerous Best Books of 2018 lists. \nFEBRUARY 18\, 2021\nIbram X. Kendi is a New York Times bestselling author and the founding director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He is the author of The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Kendi’s latest book is How to Be an Antiracist. Kendi lives in Washington\, D.C. \nAPRIL 20\, 2021\nJoy Harjo is a renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. Harjo is the author of nine books of poetry—most recently An American Sunrise—and is the editor of the forthcoming When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through\, the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. \n  \nThank you to our 2020/21 Season Supporters\n  \n \nA to Z Wineworks | Angeli Law Group | The Eberwein Family\nMaybelle Clark Macdonald Fund | ZGF Architects \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/portland-arts-lectures-2020-21-season/2020-10-13/
LOCATION:Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall\, 1037 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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SUMMARY:2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures: Helen Macdonald
DESCRIPTION:Helen Macdonald is a writer\, poet\, illustrator and naturalist\, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent book is the essay collection\, Vesper Flights (Grove Atlantic\, August 2020). Her best-selling memoir\, H Is for Hawk\, which the New York Times notes reminds us that “excellent nature writing can lay bare some of the intimacies of the wild world.” Macdonald is the author of a cultural history of falcons\, titled Falcon\, and three collections of poetry\, including Shaler’s Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College\, Cambridge\, has worked as a professional falconer\, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine. \n  \n \n  \n“There’s been a renaissance in nature writing in the U.K. over the last few years\, and I’m delighted to be part of it\, though saddened that much of what we are all writing about is fast disappearing or already gone.” (NYT) \n  \n“One of the things I learned is that we often use nature as a mirror of ourselves\, and we use nature to justify things that humans do.” (Electric Lit) \n  \n“What grief does is shatter narratives: the stories you tell about your life\, they all crumble at this point. Things become very confused\, your agency is called into question\, you’re not really sure who you are or what you’re facing…” (Guernica Magazine) \n  \nPraise\, for H is for Hawk: \n“Beautiful and nearly feral . . . H Is for Hawk reminds us that excellent nature writing can lay bare some of the intimacies of the wild world as well.” — New York Times \n  \n“Breathtaking . . . Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression of a raptor’s fierce essence—and her own—with words that mimic feathers\, so impossibly pretty we don’t notice their astonishing engineering.” — New York Times Book Review \n  \nTHANK YOU TO OUR 2020/21 SEASON SUPPORTERS\n \nA to Z Wineworks | Angeli Law Group | The Eberwein Family\nMaybelle Clark Macdonald Fund | ZGF Architects \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/2020-21-portland-arts-lectures-helen-macdonald/
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SUMMARY:2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures: Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi is the author of the forthcoming novel\, Transcendent Kingdom (Knopf\, August 2020). Her best-selling debut novel\, Homegoing (2016)\, is an intergenerational saga following two split branches of a Ghanaian family through three hundred years of history. Homegoing won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book\, was shortlisted for the British Book Award – Debut of the Year\, was named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book\, and was included on numerous Best Books of the Year lists. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates praised Homegoing as “an inspiration” and “what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task.” Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. \n  \n \n  \nOn writing Homegoing: “I feel like I’m writing for myself or for people like me who have these questions that they don’t often see answered in other books. This book really feels like the book that I would have wanted to read when I was in high school and really confused about identity and my racial/ethnic identity and all of that. If someone had given me a book like this\, it would have helped a lot. I feel like that is who I was writing for\, that girl.” (The Rumpus) \n  \n“Slavery is something we have not gotten over\, it is on people’s minds and it affects us still.” (The Guardian) \n  \n“We are shaped more than we know by our genes. Can trauma be imprinted on our DNA? I think trauma is inheritable.” (The Guardian) \n  \nPraise for Homegoing: \n“Homegoing is an inspiration.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates \n“Spectacular.” — Zadie Smith \n  \n“Brims with compassion. . . . Yaa Gyasi has given rare and heroic voice to the missing and suppressed.” — NPR \n  \nTHANK YOU TO OUR 2020/21 SEASON SUPPORTERS\n \nA to Z Wineworks | Angeli Law Group | The Eberwein Family\nMaybelle Clark Macdonald Fund | ZGF Architects \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/2020-21-portland-arts-lectures-yaa-gyasi/
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SUMMARY:2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures: Madeline Miller
DESCRIPTION:Madeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Writing in a genre Miller refers to as “mythological realism\,” these titles reimagine ancient Greek myths for the modern reader. The Song of Achilles won the 2012 Orange Prize (now The Women’s Prize for Fiction)\, was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize\, and was praised by acclaimed author Ann Patchett as “a book I could not put down.” Circe was a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the 2019 Indie Choice Award\, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, and was named on numerous Best Books of 2018 lists. Miller grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University\, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. She has taught and tutored Latin\, Greek\, and Shakespeare to high school students for over fifteen years. \n  \n \n  \nMadeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller’s reimaginings of these ancient Greek myths are widely acclaimed: The Song of Achilles won the 2012 Orange Prize\, and Circe was a #1 New York Times bestseller\, won the 2019 Indie Choice Award\, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, and was named on numerous Best Books of 2018 lists. \n  \nQuotes: \n“With a retelling you get the best of both worlds: the chance to revisit beloved stories\, while at the same time being surprised by them. A good retelling is an electrifying delight\, standing as a work of art on its own while also jolting you into a new understanding of the original.” (Bustle) \n  \n“I love these stories; I really cherish them. But it feels important to bring balance to the perspective—to say\, ‘Okay\, we’ve had three thousand years of the male-hero tradition; can we just pull on that a little bit and bring the female voices up?’” (Public Books) \n  \n“I think it’s important when reading a classic work to ask: whose stories are being told\, and whose stories have been left out or suppressed? In the context of Homer\, nearly all the major characters are male aristocrats\, and anyone outside of that category is largely ignored. Yet so often\, these other stories are seething at the edges\, every bit as gripping as the hero’s version\, and just waiting to be told.” (Bustle) \n  \n“Transformation is Circe’s greatest gift…She is also an artist\, and art itself is transformative. An artist forges raw materials into beauty and meaning. That meaning then has the ability to change all those who experience it.” (Ancient History Encyclopedia) \n  \nPraise\, for The Song of Achilles: \n“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.” – Ann Patchett \n  \n“Powerful\, inventive\, passionate\, and beautifully written. ” – Boston Globe \n  \nPraise\, for Circe: \n“so vivid\, so layered\, you could get lost in it… Whether or not you think you like Greek Mythology\, this is just great storytelling. It feels cinematic.” — NPR’s Here & Now \n  \n“An epic spanning thousands of years that’s also a keep-you-up-all-night page turner.” — Ann Patchett \n  \n“Miller’s spell builds slowly\, but by the last page you’ll be in awe. In prose of dreamlike simplicity\, she reimagines the myth of Circe.” — People \n  \nTHANK YOU TO OUR 2020/21 SEASON SUPPORTERS\n \nA to Z Wineworks | Angeli Law Group | The Eberwein Family\nMaybelle Clark Macdonald Fund | ZGF Architects \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/2020-21-portland-arts-lectures-madeline-miller/
LOCATION:Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall\, 1037 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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SUMMARY:2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures: Ibram X. Kendi
DESCRIPTION:Ibram X. Kendi is a New York Times bestselling author and the founding director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. A professor of history and international relations\, Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Kendi was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship and he was honored on The Root 100 in 2019. Kendi’s third book\, How to Be an Antiracist\, debuted at no. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list and was hailed by the New York Times as “the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” A young adult version of Stamped from the Beginning\, co-authored with Jason Reynolds published in March 2020. Kendi lives in Washington\, D.C. \n  \n \n  \n  \n“Navigating truth is my writing. As a scholar\, I am not striving to be objective. I am striving to share the truth\, even when the truth challenges me and my ideas. Truth is complicated. It is difficult to share the multi-layered truth in abstract ways. Narrative allows me to share truth in its personal and societal complexities.” (PEN) \n  \n“The key to great writing is great ideas. There are many people who can put together a beautiful sentence. But what makes a sentence memorable is the idea it projects.” (PEN) \n  \nOn writing How to Be an Antiracist: “Initially\, I was like\, that central character will not be me. I’m too private. I don’t want to show all of my bones and all of my baggage and all those shameful moments that I’m still ashamed of. I don’t know — I don’t want to do that. But the more I thought about it\, the more I realized: How can I ask other people to share those shameful moments\, to free themselves of their baggage\, to confess the most racist moments of their lives\, if I’m not willing to do that\, too?” (Washington Post) \n  \nPraise for How to Be an Antiracist: \n“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” — The New York Times \n  \n“Ibram Kendi is today’s visionary in the enduring struggle for racial justice. In this personal and revelatory new work\, he yet again holds up a transformative lens\, challenging both mainstream and antiracist orthodoxy. He illuminates the foundations of racism in revolutionary new ways\, and I am consistently challenged and inspired by his analysis. How to Be an Antiracist offers us a necessary and critical way forward.” — Robin DiAngelo\, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility \nTHANK YOU TO OUR 2020/21 SEASON SUPPORTERS\n \nA to Z Wineworks | Angeli Law Group | The Eberwein Family\nMaybelle Clark Macdonald Fund | ZGF Architects \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/2020-21-portland-arts-lectures-ibram-x-kendi/
LOCATION:Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall\, 1037 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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SUMMARY:2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures: Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo is a renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. Harjo is the author of nine books of poetry—most recently An American Sunrise—several plays and children’s books\, and a memoir\, Crazy Brave. She has received numerous prominent awards\, including the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and 2015 Wallace Stevens Award. The Librarian of Congress\, Carla Hayden\, says: “Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct\, inventive lyricism that helps us reimagine who we are.” Born in Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, Harjo earned her MFA at the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop and has taught Eng­lish\, Cre­ative Writ­ing\, and Amer­i­can Indi­an Stud­ies at numerous universities\, while per­form­ing music and poet­ry nation­al­ly and internationally. Harjo is the editor of the forthcoming When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through (W. W. Norton\, 2020)\, the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. \n  \n \n  \n  \n“Poetry is the voice of what can’t be spoken\, the mode of truth-telling when meaning needs to rise above or skim below everyday language in shapes not discernible by the ordinary mind. It trumps the rhetoric of politicians. Poetry is prophetic by nature and not bound by time. Because of these qualities poetry carries grief\, heartache\, ecstasy\, celebration\, despair\, or searing truth more directly than any other literary art form. It is ceremonial in nature. Poetry is a tool for disruption and creation and is necessary for generations of humans to know who they are and who they are becoming in the wave map of history. Without poetry\, we lose our way.” (Poets.org) \n  \n“History is people. History is stories. It’s poetry. And that’s what I love about poetry\, and that’s how poetry teaches me. Poetry has taught me that you can time-travel in a poem. You can get to know people in a poem. And poetry is the place you can come to when you have no words.” (PBS) \n  \n“I am seen as a feminist poet. The way I interpret feminism in my own work is the power of a woman to be a warrior—to recognize the warrior characteristics within herself\, which include self-love\, vulnerability\, honesty\, integrity\, a sense of morals\, and so on.” (Poets & Writers) \n  \nPraise: \n“Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct\, inventive lyricism that helps us reimagine who we are.” – Carla Hayden\, Librarian of Congress \n  \n“[Harjo] can have a kind of great sweeping vision and still speak so directly as one human being to another in a way that I can’t help but feel completely moved by and believe in.” – Rob Casper\, Head of the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress \n  \nPraise for An American Sunrise: \n  \n“Radiant.… [A] profound\, brilliantly conceived song cycle\, celebrating ancestors\, present and future generations\, historic endurance and fresh beginnings.” — Jane Ciabattari \, BBC \n“Rich and deeply engaging\, An American Sunrise creates bridges of understanding while reminding readers to face and remember the past.” – Elizabeth Lund\, Washington Post \n  \nTHANK YOU TO OUR 2020/21 SEASON SUPPORTERS\n \nA to Z Wineworks | Angeli Law Group | The Eberwein Family\nMaybelle Clark Macdonald Fund | ZGF Architects \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/2020-21-portland-arts-lectures-joy-harjo/
LOCATION:Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall\, 1037 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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SUMMARY:2019/2020 Portland Arts & Lectures: Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for May 7\, 2020. Due to concern for the health and safety of our community due to COVID-19\, it has been rescheduled to May 5\, 2021. \nPlease note: this rescheduled event is NOT considered part of the 2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures season line-up. We will be announcing five new authors for the 36th season on May 7\, 2020.  \n\n. \n\n  \nThe 35th season of Portland Arts & Lectures features some of the most engaging writers at work today. They are novelists\, essayists\, and journalists whose award-winning works cover the most compelling issues of our time. \nThe series will close on May 7 with Colson Whitehead\, author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad\, a New York Times best seller which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award. \nThe 2019/2020 season is sold-out. Please check back in May 2020 for next season’s lineup. Thank you! \nSubscribe to The Archive Project\, Literary Arts’ radio show and podcast\, to hear 35 years of lectures for free. \n
URL:https://literary-arts.org/event/2019-2020-portland-arts-lectures-colson-whitehead/
LOCATION:Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall\, 1037 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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