The William Stafford Commemorative Birthday Event--Readings & Presentations

Central Library hosts readings and presentations commemorating Oregon's late poet .Featured Participants: Joel Nightingale Berning presents William Stafford as a Minister. Mr. Berning is a third-year Master of Divinity student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Kate Gray published her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive, in 2007, and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Carlos Reyes is a noted poet, writer and translator whose latest book of poetry, The Book of Shadows; New and Selected Poems, was published in 2009. Penelope Scambly Schott has published several books, including A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth, which won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Joseph A. Soldati, host for the program, has published poems and essays. Recent among his published books is Apocalypse Clam.