October 18, 2022 | 7pm | In Person and Virtual, RSVP at bottom of page
Started in 1999, and organized by writer Willa Schneberg, this annual event features readings by prominent Oregon Jewish poets and writers. The writers in the 2022 program, who span a range of genres including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and essays, will share selections from their work.
Speakers for 2022
Bryna Goodman is a Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Oregon. Her books include Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai; Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Modern China; and Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World. Her recent work examines globally circulating institutions and categories of knowledge in modern China, with attention to print culture, gender, and political life. The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic was a finalist in Nonfiction for the 2022 Oregon Book Awards.
Seth Lorinczi is a Portland-based writer whose work focuses on Jewish intergenerational trauma, psychedelics, and healing. He was a co-organizer of this year’s “Judaism & the Psychedelic Renaissance,” a first-of its-kind live event. Seth’s memoir “Fatherland” is slated for publication in late 2023 by Spiral Press Collective. His work also explores his time in the Washington D.C. punk scene of the 1980s and ’90. His nonfiction has been published in numerous West Coast and national newspapers, magazines, and literary journals, including Moment.
Vivienne Popperl’s poems have appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Timberline Review, Cirque, Rain Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, and other publications. She received second place in the 2021 Kay Snow Award for Poetry by Willamette Writers. Her dream landscape is Provence, Southern France, but she considers the Pacific Northwest her home. Her collection, A Nest In the Heart, was published this year.
Michael Schein wrote Liquid Perishable Hazardous (2019) (poetry), John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away (2015) (historical), The Killer Poet’s Guide to Immortality by AB Bard (2012) (hysterical), historical novels Bones Beneath Our Feet (2011) and Just Deceits (2005). He edited Poets UNiTE! The LiTFUSE Anthology (2015). His poetry appears in many journals and has been nominated for a Pushcart three times. He is the founder of LITFUSE Poets’ Workshop and has taught at the Port Townsend Writers Conference, Write on the Sound, and elsewhere.
Willa Schneberg is a poet, essayist, visual artist, curator, and psychotherapist in private practice. She has authored five poetry collections including: In The Margins of The World, recipient of the Oregon Book Award, and her latest volume, Rending the Garment. Willa co-founded with OJMCHE’s director, Judy Margles, Oregon “Jewish Voices,” now in its 23rd year. Among the journals in which her poems have recently appeared or will appear are: Salmagundi; Poet Lore; Bellevue Literary Review; Minyan and Tikkun. A new collection of poems relating to mental health, “The Naked Room,” is forthcoming in Jan. 2023.
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