A book launch and an evening of poetry and reflections by several Corvallis poets is scheduled for Thursday, May 28, at the Corvallis Museum, 411 SW 2nd St, beginning with a reception at 6 p.m. The reading begins at 6:30.
Everyone is invited to a celebratory poetry reading and book launch on Thursday, May 28, at 6 p.m. at the Corvallis Museum, 411 SW 2nd Street. The reading is free and open to the public. Join in celebrating the rich recent history of poetry and literary events in Corvallis, and the publication of Voices of the Valley: An Anthology of Corvallis Poets, edited by Steven Sher and the late Michael Spring, published by Flowstone Press. Many of the 32 poets featured in the anthology will read and pay homage to poets no longer with us. Among the poets featured are Charles Goodrich, Lex Runciman, and the late Peter Sears. “Voices of the Valley” a tribute, book launch, and poetry reading.
This event celebrates an era of poetry in Corvallis from the late 1980s to the early years of this century. The reading will be from Voices of the Valley: An Anthology of Corvallis Poets, which contains poems by 32 Corvallis poets. The poets featured in the anthology include honored teachers, editors and prize-winning poets. It was edited by Steven Sher and the late Michael Spring and published by Flowstone Press. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Steven Sher writes, “In the last years of the millennium through the first years of the current century, Corvallis saw a ‘golden age’ of local poetry. It was a time when readings, slams and themed literary gatherings filled the calendar; when poetry groups and workshops, poetry outreach and poets-in-the-schools programs, publications, and packed venues flourished; when listening to poetry was like hearing the heartbeat of Oregon’s Willamette Valley.” The reading will “pay homage to these poets and their work and offer a tribute to those no longer with us”.
Poets featured in the anthology are Chris Anderson, Sara Backer, Barbara Baldwin, Rachel Barton, David Biespiel, Dorothy Black Crow, Richard Dankleff, Greg Darling, Be Davison Herrera, Eric Wayne Dickey, George Estreich, Linda Gelbrich, Charles Goodrich, Donna Henderson, Karen Holmberg, Steve Jones, Michael Malan, Jennifer Richter, Lex Runciman, Peter Sears, Matthew Shenoda, Steven Sher, Susan Spady, Michael Spring, Ann Staley, Clem Starck, Doug Stone, Anita Sullivan, Peggy Taylor, Linda Varsell Smith, Roger Weaver and Dale Willey.