Eileen Myles - Sunday, September 19th 7:30pm

Dear friends,

Please come out to The Waypost to see renowned poet Eileen Myles read from her new poet's novel, Inferno. Smorg is extremely excited to host this event. Sunday, September 19th, 7:30 pm.

Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.

See you there!

Smorg

Eileen Myles will be reading from Inferno (a poet’s novel) which chronicles the adventures of a young female writer finding her sex and aesthetics in the last decades of the 20^th C. Eileen’s books of poems include Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Her first fiction, Chelsea Girls, appeared in 1994 followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. She taught in the writing program at the University of California at San Diego for five years, returning to New York in 2007. Last spring she was the Hugo visiting writer at U.MT, Missoula. Her essays were collected in 2009 in The Importance of Being Iceland for which she won a Warhol/Creative Capital grant.

David Abel and Chris Daniels, Friday May 21, 7pm

Dear friends,

Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N. Williams, PDX) for some fine poetry Friday, May 21 with Portland's own David Abel and longtime Bay Area resident Chris Daniels. Daniels' new chapbook porous, nomadic (airfoil) will be available for the first time.

Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.

Festivities begin at 7pm.

Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,
Smorg

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The perfervidly anti-capitalist, godless, internationalist son of well-known language-artist maestro David Daniels, Chris Daniels was born in NYC in 1956. He dropped out of high school to become a dishwasher and never bothered with college. He worked as a cook and played electric bass guitar for many years. In 1980, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he still lives and, until very recently, sold his labor at a terrible loss. For reasons still unclear to him, he passed the GED and received a high school diploma in 1996.
His books of translation include The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa and The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa, vol. 2 (both published by Shearsman Books; vol. 1 of Campos is forthcoming); On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids by Josely Vianna Baptista (Manifest Press); and an ongoing, fascicular anthology of Lusophone poetry, self-published and -distributed as exceedingly modest chapbooks.

Poet, performer, and multidisciplinary artist David Abel moved to Portland in 1997, after tenures in New York City and Albuquerque (where he maintained the Bridge Bookshop, and Passages Bookshop & Gallery, respectively). Also an editor, bookseller, and curator, he frequently collaborates in various capacities with friends far and near. He is a founding member of the Spare Room reading series (www.flim.com/spareroom), now in its ninth year, and the author of various chapbooks and artist’s books, most recently Commonly (airfoil), While You Were In (disposable books), and Twenty- (Crane’s Bill Books). He is the publisher of the Envelope broadside series, and copublisher with Sam Lohmann of airfoil chapbooks.

PageBoy Launch Reading! Thursday, January 28th, 7pm

Dear friends,

Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N Williams Ave, PDX) Thursday, January 28th at 7pm. Smorg is pleased to host a reading to celebrate the release of PageBoy, a fresh new magazine out of Seattle. Editor Thomas Walton will read, along with poets Ryan Newton and Jesse Morse. Possible surprise musical guest.

Support the arts!

Festivities begin at 7pm, give or take.

Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.

See you there.

Sincerely,
Smorg