The Departments of Environmental Studies and English are proud to present a reading event with author Erica Berry at the UP Bookstore on February 26. Berry is the author of the 2024 Oregon Book Award winner “Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear,” which explores our cultural constructions of predator and prey, and what it means to navigate a world in which we can be both, through the lens of a wrongfully misunderstood species. (Read More).
Readings and Lectures Series
The English Department Reading & Lecture Series Welcomes UP Alumnus Mark Pomeroy (Oct. 30)
The English Department Reading & Lecture Series will be hosting UP alumnus Mark Pomeroy for a reading from his second novel, “The Tigers of Lents” on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 5-6 p.m. in Brian Doyle Auditorium. “The Tigers of Lents” takes place in Southeast Portland and on The Bluff, as it details a family of sisters moving beyond their poverty-strained years of high school. (Read More).
Fall Readings & Lectures Begin September 13
UP’s fall 2022 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series speaker will be Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, who joins our campus Tuesday, September 13. A self-described “wandering poet,” she’s lived and worked in San Antonio, TX, while spending the past 40 years traveling the country and world to lead writing workshops and inspire people of all ages with her […]
Poet and Musician Trevino Brings Plenty, Oct. 29
Join Lakota poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty for a reading at the UP Bookstore on Tuesday Oct. 29 at 7:30pm. A longtime resident of the Portland area, he has two poetry collections Wakpá Wanáǧi, Ghost River (2015) and Real Indian Junk Jewelry (2005), and was featured in the recent anthology New Poets of Native Nations (2018). A […]
Reading by Author, Oregon Book Award Winner Tracy Daugherty, Oct. 2
The English department will present its next Reading and Lectures Series writer, Tracy Daugherty, on Wednesday, October 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the UP Bookstore. His reading is free and open to all. Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, a book of personal essays, and biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph […]
Poetry Reading: Laura Read, March 26
Poet Laura Read will present her work in a reading on Tuesday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the Pilot House bookstore. The reading is free and open to all. Laura Read’s chapbook The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You won the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award in 2010, and her first full-length collection, Instructions […]
Elena Passarello Reading, Jan. 30
Actor and essayist Elena Passarello will read from her work on Wednesday, January 30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Pilot House bookstore. She will also appear at an informal question and answer social that afternoon from 4 to 5 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons Teske Room. All are welcome and refreshments will be served. Passarello […]
Poetry Reading with Matthew Minicucci, Nov. 14
A free poetry reading by Matthew Minicucci will take place on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, at 7:30 p.m., in the UP Bookstore. Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Small Gods, a finalist for the 2016 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press, and Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane […]
Reading and Lecture Series: Paul Collins, Oct. 8
The English department’s Reading and Lecture Series will present English professor Paul Collins of Portland State University on Monday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m., in the Pilot House bookstore. Collins will be reading from his most recent work, Blood and Ivy: the 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard (Norton, 2018). He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in […]
Reading with Megan Kruse, Feb. 15
Fiction author Megan Kruse will read from her work as part of the English department’s Readings & Lectures Series on Wednesday, February 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Pilot House bookstore. The reading is free and open to all. Megan Kruse grew up in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Olympia, Wash. She studied […]