Pop-Up: Matthew Zapruder
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, ORMatthew Zapruder pops-up with a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with his memoir Story of a Poem.
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Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Father’s Day (Copper Canyon, 2019), as well as Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine, and was the Editor of Best American Poetry 2022. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California.
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Language & Life: Jane Hirshfield & Major Jackson
Portland'5 Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, ORJane Hirshfield, the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today”, and Major Jackson, an acclaimed poet and preeminent voice in contemporary literature. Moderated by Matthew Zapruder.