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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 […]
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Reading at Cornell Store October 1
Please join me at the Cornell Store on Monday, October 1, 4:00-5:00 pm. I’ll be reading from Detours. Copies of the chapbook will be available. I’m looking forward to being back in Ithaca–it’s been a long time! Many thanks to the Cornell Latin American Studies Program and to the Cornell Store for sponsoring the event.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Drawing a Face on the Balloon
My son brought a balloon home from school with him this week, bright yellow. He played punching bag with it, he made obnoxious noises with it, he bounced it against the ceiling and retrieved it again. The first night, he drew a face on it. Last night, he added hair. My bedtime reading last night […]