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Bookfairs Around the Country

• The Association of Writers and Writing Programs will hold their Conference and Bookfair during April 7-10, 2010 in Denver, Colorado at the Colorado Convention Center.

• Wordstock 2010 in Portland, Oregon: scheduled for October 7-10, 2010 in Portland, Oregon in the Oregon Convention Center. The organizers are asking individuals to identify genres for the fair. For example, in 2008 the generes were mystery, grapohic novels, and science fiction. In 2009 the fair focused on memoir, food writing, and young adult literature.

Do you have a favorite writers conference or bookfair? Please help share that information right here. Send an email to wayne at keepingkurrent.com.

Meet Ann Favreau

Ann Favreau wrote and published Lap Games for Little Ones and The Healing Circle. Her prose and poetry has been featured in many magazines. She describes herself as a traveler who marvels at the awesome and finds wonder in the ordinary. This book tells of her travels with an open heart, open mind and 'window eyes' that see beyond the tourist sites to view the culture of the people with interest and without judgment. The book is available for $10 which includes postage. Email favray@comcast.net

Ann Favreau's readings from Window Eyes were aired on the Keeping Kurrent show on November 17, 2009. Enjoy her readings about travel and personal concerns. You can listen to two short segments by clicking on segments 1 or 2.

You can also hear an interview of Ann Favreau by clicking on interview, part 1 and part 2.

Ann is a Director of the Suncoast Writers Guild. There web site is Suncoast Writers.com

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Allen Nause acts and directs plays at ART as well as being the Artistic Director. A friend of my wife introduced us to the inner workings of ACT. As a consequence, I saw some plays, contributed some money and had an opportunity to interview Allen. He is an unassuming person who has traveled extensively exploring such places as Vietnam and India. You can find out more about him at ART webside. Listen to Allen Nause as he talks about ART and his experiences as an actor and director..

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Fine Arts

- Have you read a book, seen a play, sat in a coffee house where poets read their poetry? If you haven't then Keeping Kurrent the place where you'll hear from today's writers and poets. They are very clever and often have humorous ways at looking at our life.

Exploring the

Fine Arts

Blackbird Wine Shop Writers and Performer's Night

1st Wednesday of each month. The shop is located 3519 NE 44th Avenue just north of Freemont St. You can find out more the readings by contacting Julie Madsen at maemadsen@gmail.com. You can find out more about the wine shop by visiting Blackbird Wine Shop.

Diana Abujaber, author of Origin, a novel about a woman investigator who is looking into a series of crib deaths. The deaths appear suspicious. Learn more about Abujaber by looking at her web site. Listen to her reading from her novel which was published in 2007: Origin. Listen to her read from Origin.

Pacific University's

2008 Summer Residency MFA Program

Keeping Kurrent was there recording their stories and poems, now, you get to hear them by listening to the show on OMNI Media Networks.

During the Summer Residency program in Forest Grove faculty and students live and work together for a ten day period. They have workshops and lectures and finally authors/faculty members read their writings. Some of the presenters are just there for the readings. This year several authors appeared to give Craft Talks, 45 to 60 minute lectures on some subject. The public is not invited to these sessions. The invitees included Stephen Kuusisto who lectures on Walking Prose: The Nervations of the Literary Essay.

A nonfiction writer, Chris Hedges, also spoke at the Residency. However, he only appeared and gave a Craft talk. Only students were permitted to attend the sessions.

Hedges has written for the New York Times and published a number of books. He was a war correspondent covering and number of modern wars. There is an extensive article about him in a variety of places. You can see one of them at Open Salon.

Chris Hedges, author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, a book that examines the meaning of Fascism and how the characteristics of that movement can be observed in American and European churches. For more about this book you can check out this web site. This photo provided by courtesy of Wikepedia and was provided by the author.

Denise Duhamel. She is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry. Her most recent titles are Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh, 2005) and Mille et un sentiments (Firewheel Editions, 2005). This photo was provided courtesy of Nick Carbó. You can learn more about her at poets.com.

Denise Duhamel, a poet, also appeared and read a number of her poems. A reading of her poems will occur on September 2nd on OMNI Media Networks between 2 and 3 p.m. Her reading, primarily for a mature audience, included Empreñar, a poem about mistakes in using a Spanish word that means impregnate which she experienced while visiting Spain, Kinky, a poem about the Barbie Dolls, and poems about aging and Alzheimer in her poem Beneficiary and Egg Rolls dealing with her experiences in graduate school. Listen to her reading from her poems.

Other Writers

Other writes appearing this summer included Sandra Alcosser who shared her poem which answers the question, "What makes the Grizzly dance?"; Valerie Miner reading from a short story which takes place in India entitled "Always Avoid Accidents". Claire Davis and Judy Blunt shared their stories about the dangerous effects of walking on a frozen lake (Davis) and about a terrible Montana storm and its effects on the cattle population and on the people that raised them. Peter Sears read his poems about baseball (one of his favorite subjects) and about our feelings about emptiness. Mary Helen Stefaniak read her short story about young girls watching a naked man who is completely unaware of his situation (obviously meant for mature audiences and restricted to Internet radio. Brady Udall who is related to the political side of the Udalls, read his short story about "Murderer", a tongue-cheek story about a stranger that comes to his door in the early morning hours. Marvin Bell, who I missed, I'm sure read more of Dead Man poems and David Long read more of his yet-to-be-published book that takes place in Estonia.

Meet Craig Lesley, Oregon author and writer/faculty member in the MFA program at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Craig Lesley writes about NW Indian culture in a series of books like Riversong, The Sky Fisherman, and Winterkill. He has also authored other books: Burning Fence and Storm Riders. He has a new novel which is titled, Elk Moon. You can find out more about this writer on his web site.

Lesley also read from novel Burning Fence at the Blackbird Wine Shop. The book is a memoir. Listen to his reading of Burning Fence.