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We've just posted our
spring newsletter to our website but you can read the cover story below. It's a testament to how your support helps literature thrive in our community. Please read and enjoy.

As our fiscal year comes to a close on May 31 we hope you'll consider making a spring donation to Literary Arts! Thank you for all your support.

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Teaching Poetry in Biology Class

By Jessica Lamb, Writer in the Schools

By the time I was 14, I had made my decision: I wanted to be a writer; I did not want to be a scientist. These two statements involved a single thought: It was obvious that becoming a writer meant not becoming a scientist.
 
Writers were dreamers, scientists were strict fact checkers. Scientists could dissect piglets without wincing. Poets cared more about words than things. I stopped listening in science class; I didn't mind when I got a C in chemistry - I was going to be an artiste.

Many decades later, as I climbed the steps of Cleveland High School to begin a poetry residency in Ms. Talcott's freshman biology class, I remembered my own sadly narrow self-definition at the age of 14. Gripping a sack of notebooks, I prepared myself to confront a sea of bewildered freshmen faces. Poetry in biology class? We're doing what?... read the rest of the article.


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Literary Arts is a statewide, nonprofit organization that enriches the lives of Oregonians through language and literature. For more information about Literary Arts please contact us at 503.227.2583.
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In conjunction with PEN American Center's 2010 World Voices Festival in New York, Literary Arts & Miracle Theatre Group present Rigoberto González at the Milagro Theatre (525 SE Stark St.).
 


 

Rigoberto González (Mexico/U.S.) is the author of eight books, including the poetry collections, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks, a National Poetry Series selection, and Other Fugitives and Other Strangers. His most recent books are the young adult novel The Mariposa Club and a short story collection, Men Without Bliss. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, and The Poetry Center Book Award. He writes a Latino book column for The El Paso Times, is a contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, serves on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, State University of New Jersey.
 


The evening will feature a reading by Rigoberto González, an in-depth conversation between former Miracle Theatre, Board President, Cindy Williams Gutierrez and Mr. González, and a Q & A session from the audience at the end of the program. 

We would like to acknowledge our community partners, Powell's, Portland Latino Gay Pride and

Los Porteños for helping us recognize the importance of sharing the voices among us.
 

Tickets:
- Tickets are $10 plus handling fee
- Available online at HulaHub
- By phone at 503.236.7253
- At the Hollywood Theatre box office daily from 1pm - 9pm

- Or at the door on the day of the event

 

Visit www.literary-arts.org for additional information.

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Literary Arts is a statewide, nonprofit organization that enriches the lives of Oregonians through language and literature. The programs of Literary Arts are Oregon Book Awards,
Oregon Literary Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, Poetry in Motion®, Writers in the Schools and Delve: Readers' Seminars. For more information about the programs of Literary Arts, please contact James Rishky at 503.227.2583.


 

The Miracle Theatre Group has been dedicated to bringing the vibrancy of Latino theatre to the Northwest community and beyond for more than 25 years. In addition to its national tours, Miracle provides a home for Spanish and Latin American arts and culture at El Centro Milagro, where it enriches the local community with a variety of community outreach projects and educational programs designed to share the diversity of Latino culture. For more information about the Miracle Theatre Group, visit www.milagro.org or call 503.236.7253

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