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Authors In The Grove In October
The Forest Grove City Library will have the pleasure of hosting two authors during October. Citizens are invited to participate in the unique opportunity to meet and greet two widely-acclaimed authors right here in Forest Grove.
The library is partnering with Pacific University to bring Oregon's Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen, to Forest Grove on Tuesday, October 4. Ms. Petersen will be working with classes at Pacific in the afternoon and then will be at the library for a reception at 6:00 pm, hosted by the Friends of the Library. She will do a reading of her works followed by a Question and Answer and book signing session at 7:00 pm at the Community Auditorium. Paulann Petersen has five full-length books of poetry: The Wild Awake, Blood-Silk, A Bride of Narrow Escape, Kindle, and The Voluptuary, published by Lost Horse Press in 2010. Ms. Petersen is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of the Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Art. Her work has been selected for the web site Poetry Daily and for Poetry in Motion, which puts poems on buses and light rail cars in the Portland metropolitan area. For more details on the Poet Laureate, see her website at http://www.paulann.net/index.php.
Author Molly Gloss will be a special guest at the October 12 meeting of the Library Book Group which has chosen Gloss’s The Hearts of Horses as their October selection! Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland. The Hearts of Horses, published in 2007, is the novel of a young woman breaking horses for several ranchers in Eastern Oregon in the winter of 1917. Gloss’s novel The Jump-Off Creek was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, and a winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. In 1996 Molly was a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award. The Dazzle of Day was named a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the PEN Center West Fiction Prize. Wild Life won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was chosen as the 2002 selection for "If All Seattle Read the Same Book." See more about Molly Gloss on her website at http://www.mollygloss.com/.
The book group meets the second Wednesday of each month at 7 PM at the library. If you would like to join in the discussions, please reserve a copy of the book(s) through the library’s online catalog or visit the Reference Desk (503) 992-3337 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .