WORDS!

Annual Readings by Jewish Writers and Poets

Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

At the Oregon Jewish Museum

Rosalyn and Solomon Menashe Auditorium

1953 NW Kearney Street, Portland

Suggested donation $5; free for OJM members.

 Five prominent Jewish poets and writers will read from their personal collection for our annual poetry reading, established in 1999.

Alison Apotheker 's first book of poems, Slim Margin was released in 2008.  Her poetry has been published in many literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, and Prairie Schooner.  Her work has received the C. Hamilton Bailey fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was recently featured on the Garrison Keillor’s NPR radio show, "The Writer's Almanac."  She teaches writing and literature at Portland Community College.

Gigi Rosenberg is an author and presentation coach. She writes about motherhood, Jewish Italy, and the writing life. Her essays and articles have been published by Seal Press, The Oregonian, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Parenting, and Writer’s Digest. Her book, The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing, will be hot off the press from Random House in December 2010. As a presentation coach, Gigi draws on her background in theater and communications to teach artist entrepreneurs and business people how to make stellar public presentations.

Willa Schneberg, recipient of the Oregon Book Award in Poetry, is the originator and organizer of O.J.M.'s annual Oregon Jewish Writers' Reading, now in its 11th season. Her work was included in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Anthology, was heard on the Writer’s Almanac, and can be seen on busses and Max trains in Portland. In October, she taught poetry workshops at “Write on the Sound” in Edmonds, WA, and at Wordstock.  She has just returned from a “Bearing Witness" Retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau. 

Floyd Skloot has published 17 books, most recently Selected Poems: 1970-2005, which won his second Pacific NW Booksellers Award in poetry, a memoir entitled The Wink of The Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life, and a collection of new poems, The Snow's Music. Skloot is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN USA Literary Award, and two Oregon Book Awards, and his work has been reprinted in The Best American Essays, Best Spiritual Writing, Best Food Writing and Best American Science Writing. He lives in Portland.

Jack Turteltaub is a Portland native and licensed clinical psychologist who currently maintains a private practice in the city.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and his graduate degrees from Wayne State University.  He has been published in a number of literary journals, most recently in Drash, Hazmat and Cloudbank.   He belongs to two writing groups in Portland and loves, among other things, hiking, movies