This month's Talking Earth, hosted by dan raphael, features Portland writer's Leah Stenson, C E Putnam and Marilyn Stablein, all of whom lived in Asia and now live in Portland. dan will read a couple poems from Rone Shavers and himself.
Leah Stenson is a world traveler, writer, poet, and practicing Buddhist. She is also the author of three poetry books and a hybrid memoir, and co-editor of two poetry anthologies.. In the early 1990’s, she landed in Portland where she has since served as managing director of Oregon Peace Institute and served on the boards of various arts-related nonprofits. She currently hosts the popular and long-running Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic in S. Portland at the Ross Island Café. You can find more about Leah at leahstenson.com; Tonight, she’ll be sharing some of her insights and understanding of modern Japan.
Marilyn Stablein is a multidisciplinary artist working in poetry, prose, performance and artist books. Her poetry books include Tantric Song Lines: A Hybrid Sutra, (2024), Milepost 27: and Splitting Hard Ground: Poems which won the New Mexico Book Award, the National Federation of Press Women Book Award, and a Southwest Writers Award. Her memoirs include Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu; Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir, and Climate of Extremes: Landscape and Imagination.
C.E. Putnam’s seventh book The Bird May Be Dead But It Is Your Bird will be published on 4 days, and he’s reading from it tonight. His other books include XX Elegies, a broken-lyric re-versioning of John Donne, Maniac Box: twenty-seven film treatments. He has previously served as curator and presenter for the Subtext Reading series in Seattle, WA and DC POETRY at the DCAD arts center in Washington DC. He is the founder of the Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research (P.I.S.O.R. ) His sound works include P.I.S.O.R. SCARES, a series of mind-melting Halloween themed sound collages
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