Lane Community Writers Series on November 3, 2016

Lane Community Writers Series / 5:30 p.m., Thursday, November 3, 2016 / Room 421, LCC Downtown Campus / 101 West 10th Avenue, Eugene OR

Laura LeHew — Whitey Lueck — Keli Osborn

Laura LeHew is widely published. Her four collections include: Becoming (Another New Calligraphy), Willingly Would I Burn, (MoonPath Press), It’s Always Night, It Always Rains, (Winterhawk Press), and Beauty (Tiger’s Eye Press). She received the MFA in writing from California College of the Arts. She edits and owns Uttered Chaos, a poetry press, and co-hosts the reading series Poetry for the People. She also owns a computer forensics and network security consulting company. Laura always thought she’d be an astronaut.

To help make ends meet during graduate school, Whitey Lueck worked as a Male Cocktail Waitress–his actual job title–at the Moose Lodge in Corvallis, Oregon. These days, he is an instructor for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon, where his courses draw on his broad background in horticulture, landscape design, and ecology. His first collection of essays, Staying Put in Lane County, was published in late 2015. Two more collections are due out before the end of 2016.

Keli Osborn lives and writes in Eugene, where she also works with community organizations, hikes Mt. Pisgah, and bikes to the library. A resident of Eugene for more than 40 years, Keli grew up in four countries–attending 12 schools in a dozen years. She co-coordinates the More Voices and Windfall reading series. Her poems have appeared in Timberline Review, Elohi Gadugi Journal, and The Quotable, among others, and in the anthology, All We Can Hold.

For a poster of this event: http://www.laneliteraryguild.org/2016/11/lane-community-writers-series-november-3-2016/

Laura LeHew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pjJrc2AmMI

Whitey Lueck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CVCHf2Acw

Keli Osborn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwX5NCRplm0

Lane Community Writers Series on October 6, 2016

 

Lane Community Writers Series

5:30 p.m., Thursday, October 6, 2016

Room 421, LCC Downtown Campus

101 West 10^th Avenue, Eugene OR

Eric Alan  –  Valerie J. Brooks  –  Mike Copperman

Eric Alan is an author, photographer, broadcaster and lyricist. His first book of prose and photography, Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path, received wide national acclaim. Its sequel, Grace and Tranquility, paired with a music CD with international recording artists Gypsy Soul. His third book took him into the world of Major League Baseball: This Is Our Time! captured the unique saga of the 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants. He currently works with National Geographic photographer Dewitt Jones on the “Celebrate What’s Right with the World” project. He’s also the primary music, arts and culture reporter for NPR affiliate KLCC in Eugene, Oregon, after a long tenure as music director of Jefferson Public Radio. 

Valerie J. Brooks is a literary activist and award-winning author who has published in Scent of Cedars: Promising Writers from the Pacific Northwest and in France, a Love Story: Women Write About the French Experience. She served as Associate Fiction Editor on Northwest Review and co-founded Willamette Writers Speakers Series. Recently she completed Stealing Paris, a novel, and was awarded a Playa residency to work on Vida Flats, a memoir of her early tumultuous years as a single mom from the East Coast trying to make a home in 1970s rural Oregon. (Photo by Shannon O’Dell)

Michael Copperman has taught writing to low-income, first-generation students of diverse background at the University of Oregon for the last decade.  His prose has appeared in The Oxford American, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Salon, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Waxwing, and Copper Nickel, among other magazines, and has won awards and garnered fellowships from the Munster Literature Center, Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Oregon Literary Arts, and the Oregon Arts Commission. University Press of Mississippi just released his memoir of the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta, Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta.

Eric Alan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9o0LcK2PBg

Valerie Brooks – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qheH7V_GqXU

Mike Copperman – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X80lB6q0SE