Launch of Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology, published by Nestucca Spit Press, edited by MATT LOVE, featuring DOROTHY MACK, NIKI PRICE, CARLA PERRY and ANDREW RODMAN.

MICHELE LONGO EDER. author of Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife.

FOURTH ANNUAL
INSTANT HAIKU SLAM CLASSIC

2008 champions:
Sam Canning-Kaplan
Joe Jordan
Laura Eberly
An account of the 2008 Instant Haiku Slam
— by Laura Eberly

CLAUDIA HANDLER, author of the poetry collection Going Under. Co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets, an organization dedicated to bringing poetry to the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area.

 

 

 

 

 

SPIKE WALKER, author of Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession, King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas, Nights of Ice, and coming Back Alive

CRAIG CAROTHERS, singer, songwriter and performer originally from Portland, Oregon, now living in Nashville, Tennessee, but touring everywhere.

His song, "Little Hercules," recorded for Trisha Yearwood, went Gold.

He’s toured with or opened for Mose Allison, Karla Bonnoff, Jonatha Brooke, Rosanne Cash, Bruce Cockburn, Paula Cole, Robert Cray, Catie Curtis, Crash Test Dummies, Donovan, Peter Himmelman, John Hiatt, Leo Kottke, Patty Larkin, Michael McDonald, Dennis Miller, Anne Murray, Danny O'Keefe, Leroy Parnell, Paula Poundstone, Boz Skaggs, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Richard Thompson, Jethro Tull, Romeo Void, Loudon Wainwright III, Tim Weisberg, David Wilcox, Warren Zevon, etc.