Category: Winter’s Hill Vineyard

  • Wine and Word Celebration at Winter’s Hill Feb. 16

    Counting down. . .  Tomorrow is the the third annual Wine and Word Celebration at Winter’s Hill Vineyard.  The tasting room is open 11-5; we’ll have readings and word tastings on the hour, starting at noon. Pinot noir and Pinot gris from Winter’s Hill, paired with poetry, science fiction, baseball, watershed restoration, dramatic monologue, translation, more wine.…

  • Blog shift, format, wine & word

    Blog shift, format, wine & word

    So much at once, right? For a couple of years now, I’ve been blogging at ¿Se enseña aquí? — a blog begun partly in the hopes of encouraging students to study abroad (in particular in the program in Rosario, Argentina, where I was about to teach) and continued as a way to talk about translation, language…

  • Still Noticing, Collecting (Detour 13)

    We spent the third weekend in January at the coast, an extended family tradition–long walks, seafood, puzzles, wine. Walks remembered and compared; stones retrieved from tide pools, examined, mulled, returned– dropped gently, perhaps, or absentmindedly; or flung full-armed into the further surf, that pitcher’s arc none of us ever truly mastered. Remembered others’ beach traditions…

  • Wine and Word Tasting, 3rd. edition

    The third edition of Wine and Word Tasting at Winter’s Hill Vineyard will take place on Saturday, February 16, 11:00-5:00. I’ll be reading from Detours and from my translation of Angélica Gorodischer’s Trafalgar, which should be hot off the Small Beer Press. We have a great line-up of readers and writers this year, with something for…

  • Family Business/Sharing Books

    Winter’s Hill Vineyard UNO Press Last week, visiting my family’s winery, one of the wonderful women who often works special events there told me she’d bought a copy of Beyond the Islands for a friend of hers who would be diving in the Galápagos. What should she tell her friend about the book? Pirates, I…

  • Reading at Winter’s Hill

    This weekend, we celebrated the 2nd annual Wine and Word tasting at Winter’s Hill Vineyard. I wrote about last year’s reading here, and the pairing of wine–or food–with texts. It’s natural, I think, to bring them together; say what you will about eating only at a table with cutlery and dishes, sipping while reading (or…

  • 2nd Annual Wine and Word Tasting

    2nd Annual Wine and Word Tasting at Winter’s Hill Vineyard. Saturday, Feb. 11. Sample tasty morsels of poetry and prose expertly paired with fine Oregon wines. Short readings by local writers Barbara Drake, Karen McPherson, Kelly Terwilliger, Adrienne Mitchell and Amalia Gladhart served up in literary “flights” at 12:30,1:30, 2:30, and 3:30. Taste Winter’s Hill…