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  • What We Do
    • Portland Arts & Lectures
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    • DELVE READERS SEMINARS
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    • 30th Anniversary
    • Contact Us
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What is Delve? Delve Readers Seminars engage readers in exploring challenging books in lively discussion-based seminars led by an experienced scholar.

 

**NOW AVAILABLE: 17/18 SEASON OF CURRENT SEMINAR LISTINGS**

 

 
WHY DELVE?

Literature needs readers. Literature is not the domain of writers and authors alone. In reading, we engage in dialogues with the authors of the books we love and their various cultures of thought and experience, and also potentially with one another. Delve seminars are special in that they cultivate readers and a community for the shared experience of reading. Through the simple act of gathering together weekly to share in-depth conversations about books, we become ever more astute and empathetic readers, of literature, as well as of human experience.

 

HOW THE SEMINARS WORK

Each seminar is limited to 16 participants who will complete designated reading in advance and come prepared to discuss the text in an informal, friendly atmosphere. No previous knowledge of the author or text is required. Delve offers a unique peer-to-peer learning experience that fosters community and intellectual inquiry. It is a perfect combination of a book group and a college English class, but we promise not to assign any essays.

Delve seminars usually run six weeks in length, meeting once a week, with some variations of format and scheduling (as noted in specific seminar descriptions). We encourage you to enroll early; many seminars fill up quickly. Seminars are held at the Literary Arts event space (925 SW Washington St, Portland) unless otherwise noted. Tuition rates vary according to seminar length and other aspects (such as PAL event tie-ins, etc).

Delve seminars are led by guides who are revered scholars, teachers, writers, poets, and artists in the Portland community. See the Guides page for full bios and details.

 

ACCESS RATE & VOLUNTEER OPTIONS

This year, we will be rolling out a new Access Rate registration program, which will replace what was formerly called our “Scholarship” or “Scholar Rate” option. We are striving to make Delve Readers Seminars affordable and accessible to all interested participants. 

Click here, to learn more about joining a Delve seminar as a volunteer Liaison or Scribe, or to enroll using the Access Rate option!

Access Rate Spots will offer reduced tuition rates for some seminars and will be offered to those registrants who demonstrate financial need and an expressed interest in attending Delve seminars. Volunteer positions performing Liaison or Scribe duties are also available in exchange for tuition. Fill out a form to enroll for those options here.

 

SEE LISTINGS OF CURRENT SEMINARS FOR 17/18 HERE 

 

Contact Delve Program Specialist Dao Strom at dao@literary-arts.org with any questions.

 

REGISTER FOR DELVE SEMINARS HERE


  • About DELVE READERS SEMINARS
  • Current Seminars
  • Guides
  • Past Seminars
  • Guidelines & Policies
  • Supporters
  • Access Rate & Volunteer Positions
  • Testimonials

Latest Blog Posts

Delve Seminar Summary: Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex

Delve Seminar Summary: Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex

January 16, 2018

[by Patrick Findler]   Dispatch 1: There were fifteen of us gathered around a square wooden table to talk about Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, specifically the first two parts of volume I, “Facts and Myths.” This will be…

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Delve Seminar Summary: Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’ & the 2016 Election

Delve Seminar Summary: Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’ & the 2016 Election

January 2, 2018

[by Ben Adams]   Don DeLillo is known as a literary curmudgeon. Suffice it to say he makes public appearances with great hesitance and many grievances; you can almost see him protesting onstage. He detests trivialities involving his work, and…

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Delve Guide Spotlight: Melissa Joan Walker

Delve Guide Spotlight: Melissa Joan Walker

September 18, 2017

Melissa Joan Walker is a local writer whose work has appeared in outlets such as the Denver Quarterly, Sentence, Banshee, theNewerYork, After Hours; Orion Headless, Parable Press and more. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute…

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Featured Lecture from the Archives

Verselanda! featuring Portland High School Students and Anis Mojgani

Verselanda! featuring Portland High School Students and Anis Mojgani

April 18, 2018

Students who participated in the 2017 Verselandia! Poetry Slam Competition share their original pieces in front of a live audience.

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