SAVE THE DATE: FEB 17 2024
25th Anniversary Reading
You're invited to celebrate the Attic's 25th anniversary with founder David Biespiel and Senior Fellow Matthew Dickman reading at Mother Foucault's Bookshop in SE Portland.
David Biespiel is a contributor to American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and Slate, and the author of thirteen books, most recently the novel, A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love, the book of poems, Republic Café, and the memoir, A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas. Recipient of National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan, and Stegner fellowships, two Oregon Book Awards, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, he has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian award. In addition to teaching at the Attic, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, and Wake Forest University, and he is Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University where he teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program.
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, Brother, 50 American Plays, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize and a Kate Tufts Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The London Review of Books, and Poetry London, among other places. In addition to being a Senior Fellow at the Attic Institute, he is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Oregon.
Attic Institute 25th Anniversary Reading
Mother Foucault's Bookshop, 523 SE Morrison, Portland
Feb 17 2024, 7pm
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SAVE THE DATE: FEB 17 2024
25th Anniversary Reading (and Birthday Party!)
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Established in January 1999, the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters is Portland's cherished literary studio and school for creativity — a haven for writers and the birthplace for Portland's literary renaissance.
Named one of the "most amazing writing centers in the United States" by Bustle, the Attic is a place where students gather to explore, dream, and discover, make and share new pieces of writing, and participate in lively community about the creative process.
You're invited to celebrate the Attic's 25th anniversary.
On Saturday, Feb 17, 7pm, at Mother Foucault's Bookshop, founder David Biespiel will not only read from his thirteenth book — the novel A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love, which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was called by Jess Walter a "thinking man's Dazed and Confused "— but he'll also celebrate his 60th birthday.
Join the double anniversary + birthday party!
Reading with David Biespiel will be the extraordinary poet and Senior Fellow at the Attic Institute Matthew Dickman reading new poems, including from his most recent book, Husbandry.
Followed by a conversation and Q/A: Matthew's Q's to David's A's.
Libations! Cake! Poetry! Fiction! Plus Q/A with Biespiel and Dickman.
Attic Institute 25th Anniversary Reading
Mother Foucault's Bookshop
523 SE Morrison, Portland
Feb 17 2024
7pm
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