2015 Literary Arts Annual Newsletter

Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival to relaunch

A one-day celebration at the Portland Art Museum on Saturday, November 7, 2015

By Amanda Bullock, Festival & Events Manager

Portland is a truly amazing city. I’m new here and still in awe: I arrived at PDX in January to start work relaunching the Wordstock Festival. Wordstock is a beloved event in search of a new life, and Literary Arts is the perfect home for the book festival. Our mission is to support writers, engage readers, and inspire the next generation with great literature. Wordstock is a chance to do all of these things in one day, in one place, creating one grand moment for Portland, for writers, and for readers.

Wordstock’s subtitle of “Portland’s Book Festival” is deliberate and significant. Wordstock will celebrate Portland and will be an event that could only happen here, in Portland, in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest. It will be a national stage deeply rooted in this very particular place. Wordstock will bring in authors from across the country and around the world who represent a variety of genres and diverse viewpoints. We will also feature local writers—including cookbook authors and food writers, children’s book authors and illustrators, novelists and

2014/2015 Literary Arts snapshot

ENGAGE READERS

1 New Radio Show

The Archive Project broadcasts original author lectures on OPB radio every Wednesday at 9:00 p.m., online at literary-arts.org/ archives, and on iTunes.

SUPPORT WRITERS

$1.3 Million Raised

During our 30th anniversary, we created the Brian Booth Writers’ Fund, an endowment to underwrite the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program.

INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION 3,600 Students Served

In addition to Writers in the Schools residencies, we also facilitated college essay mentoring sessions and poetry workshops for Portland’s youth.

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memoirists—celebrating their new books, leading panel discussions, teaching workshops, and more. We will also feature great food and drink (always important here), including an outdoor (tented! It’s Portland in November!) beer garden accompanied by favorite local food trucks and carts. And, naturally, it wouldn’t be a Portland party without great music: we are delighted to be partnering with OPB to present live music throughout the festival. We have a wonderful venue partner in the Portland Art Museum, which has been enthusiastic and supportive of the book festival from the very beginning.

Words from the Director

As our state continues to grow and become more prominent on the national stage, the goal of Literary Arts is to help Oregon remain a hospitable place for readers and writers. This is why we presented over 100 free events, offered $15 ticket prices to our events, and raised over $1.3 million to support Oregon’s writers and publishers. This is also why our programming can be heard on the radio and experienced in libraries and classrooms throughout the state.

This newsletter captures these exciting moments we’ve shared over the past year and also highlights programming we are honored to offer in the upcoming year. Whether you are a longtime

supporter or a new participant, your involvement helps Literary Arts engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

With all my best,

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ENGAGE READERS

115 Free Events

Poetry readings, book release parties, experimental writing workshops, and more were held at our community space in downtown Portland.

87 Partners

As our programming expands, we are honored to partner with new institutions such as The Nation and local organizations such as the Portland Art Museum.

SUPPORT WRITERS

17 Writing Workshops

This year, we nearly doubled our workshop offerings. These classes take place at our community center in downtown Portland and are taught by local and visiting authors.

40 Writers Hired

We hired 27 writers through our Writers in the Schools program and 13 writers to teach workshops around Oregon.

INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION

112 College-Bound Students

Through our College Essay Mentoring Project, we trained 89 volunteer mentors to assist 112 students with their college and scholarship application essays.

23 Schools Served

Through our Writers in the Schools residency program and our Students to the Schnitz initiative, Literary Arts served a record number of schools this year.

Andrew

Proctor,

Executive Director andrew@literary-arts.org

Supporting Literary Arts

This year, Literary Arts has experienced tremendous growth in all of our programming. Make a gift today and help us support Oregon’s literary community by:

• Bringing the world’s most celebrated writers and thinkers to Oregon.

• Supporting, promoting, and celebrating local writers and publishers.

• Inspiring public high school students to write, edit, publish, and perform their work.

Pledge your support at literary-arts.org/donate.

If you would like to pledge your support through gifts of securities, bequests, life insurance, IRAs, retirement funds, etc., please contact our Director of Development, Lydah DeBin, at 503-227-2583 x106.

Investing in Oregon’s creative future

Literary Arts creates a permanent endowment for the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships Program

Over three decades ago, Brian Booth set out to create a support system that would allow Oregonians to participate in the national literary conversation without having to leave the state. In 1984, he helped create the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program to support local writers and publishers. Since its inception, this program has awarded over $750,000 in financial support and recognition to hundreds of authors, including Cheryl Strayed, Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry Lopez, Ken Kesey, Gina Ochsner, and Molly Gloss.

To honor Booth’s vision and to celebrate our 30th anniversary, Literary Arts is building a $2 million endowment to provide permanent funding for the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program. Through gifts ranging from a few dollars to $223,000, we have raised over $1.3 million. Every dollar helps Literary Arts continue to offer support for generations of writers to come.

“Having directed an arts nonprofit for almost a decade, I’m keenly aware of the extraordinary effort it takes to raise $2 million to support an initiative like the Brian Booth Writers’ Fund. It’s an impressive achievement—worthy of everyone’s ongoing support— that significantly increases the oxygen flow to Oregon’s writers and the broader literary community.Fellowship funds are a critical lifeline, providing some needed courage and ventilation as I continue mining material for two new book projects. I’m equally grateful to be a 2015 Oregon Book Award winner—yet another of Literary Arts’ generous gifts to our community.”

—Justin Hocking, Oregon Book Award winner for The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld and 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient

“As I write this, it’s nearly noon on the Oregon Coast. I’m sitting at a large table set in front of a west-facing window, surrounded by books, notebooks, pencils, poems. For the first time in over two years, I am spending the entire day with my work. Four or five years ago, this wouldn’t have seemed like much. But today, amidst the unanticipated cacophony/chaos that life suddenly becomes when children make their bold entry into our lives, finding the stretch of a day to dedicate to writing is a rare and precious thing.”

—Ashley Toliver, 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient

Thanks to the early success of the Brian Booth Writers’ Fund, Literary Arts gave $59,000 in financial support and recognition to award winners and fellowship recipients during the Oregon Book Awards Ceremony on April 13, 2015.

Announcing a new Oregon Literary Fellowship!

In 2016, Literary Arts will offer a Fellowship for Writers of Color. This new grant is intended to help writers of color in Oregon initiate, develop, or complete a literary project in poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama, or young readers literature.

Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships

Application Deadlines:

Apply for an Oregon Literary Fellowship by Friday, June 26, 2015. Literary Arts will grant $3,000 each to 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients.

Apply for the Oregon Book Awards by August 28, 2015. Books written by Oregon writers with an original publication date between August 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015 are eligible.

Full guidelines are available at www.literary-arts.org. For more information, contact Susan Denning at susan@ literary-arts.org.

Powell’s Books, a supporter of Literary Arts for the past 30 years, will be the lead bookseller throughout the event.

Wordstock will be a book festival, celebrating the power of the written word and inspiring readers of all ages. A primary goal of the festival is to create an event that will appeal to all types of readers, from those of us who might read one book a year to those of us who read a book a day. The festival will have something for readers of biography, picture books, debut story collections, comic books, cookbooks, the latest YA dystopia, and more.

A book festival should elevate literature, reading, writers, and the written word. A festival is a moment of celebration, where there are many things happening simultaneously—ideally so many amazing moments it will be hard to choose and you’ll wish for Hermione’s time-turner or a clone. You might get a chance to see your cultural heroes, and hopefully you’ll discover new voices. This year’s Wordstock will feature four stages of author interviews, panel discussions, children’s story

time events, and more, plus pop-up events throughout the museum. The book fair will feature a ballroom full of vendors selling books and book-related products or representing literary organizations; you will be able to pick up an exciting chapbook from a local independent poetry press, learn more about creative writing programs at national universities, grab a new tote bag to hold all those books, sign up for a writing class here in Portland, and more.

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This is just the beginning; we are posting information and details on the Literary Arts website as they are available and plan to have tickets to the festival on sale in early September. Attendees 17 and under and those with a high school ID will get in free. Adult tickets will be $15, and all tickets will include a $5 book voucher to use toward a purchase at the book fair.

I am so excited for the opportunity to give Portland the festival you want and deserve with the reimagined, reinvigorated, relaunched Wordstock this fall. There’s still a lot of work to do as we approach November, but we have the outstanding support to create a book festival worthy of Portland and everything that makes this city so amazing. n

Get involved with Wordstock!

Sign up to volunteer

Wordstock has always been supported by a strong community of volunteers. Literary Arts welcomes those who have helped in the past and those who are interested in assisting the relaunch to play a role in Wordstock 2015. Please visit literary-arts.org/ wordstock to sign up.

Submit your book

The 2015 relaunch of Wordstock will feature a diverse group of contemporary authors in conversations, panels, and presentations. If you are interested in submitting your published work, visit literary-arts.org/wordstock to review the submission guidelines.

Apply to be an exhibitor

Wordstock offers exhibitors the opportunity to reach thousands of book lovers ready to buy their products or learn about their services. Registration ends on August 1, 2015. Please visit literary-arts.org/wordstock for more information.

To get involved, contact us by email at wordstock@literary-arts.org or by phone at 503-227-2583.

Celebrating a decade of Delve Readers Seminars

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“Delve into literary classics” was the tagline for the Delve Readers Seminar program when it launched in 2005, with Moby-Dick and Remembrance of Things Past as its first two seminars. Now on the heels of its tenth season, seminar topics include contemporary literature, nonfiction, novels, essays, poetry, plays, and more. Delve engages over 200 readers annually to provide unique access to literature. In the 2014/2015 season, 16 participants were given the chance to meet with Ursula K. Le Guin in a Science Fiction seminar, and during the “Mitchell S. Jackson: The Residue Years” seminar, guide Michael McGregor led a Q&A session with participants and the author over Skype.

“I learned to view the novel from a variety of new and different perspectives and achieved a depth of understanding I would never have otherwise gained.”

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–Per Ramfjord, Delve participant

Stats over 10 years:

1,503 participant registrations 108 seminars held

32 seminar guides contracted 28 program volunteers engaged

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Visit literary-arts.org for more information on Delve.

The power of poetry and why we need Verselandia!

By Turiya Autry, Author of Roots, Reality & Rhyme

The first time I ever read a poem on stage occurred in the fourth grade, for an all-school assembly. One by one we clambered on stage with cardboard props and crafted costume accessories, sharing our generally brief pieces saturated with our overabundant desire to rhyme using limited vocabulary. We were brilliant and petrified.

I followed my interests and that eventually led me to a poetry slam. The first year I competed for a spot on Portland’s Poetry Slam team, I lost; but I didn’t quit. I ended up representing Portland at three National Poetry Slam competitions and even held the title of Portland’s Grand Slam Champion. Through networking in the poetry slam scene, I hosted artists from all over and toured the country as well.

Throughout this creative expansion of my own voice, I worked with youth as a teaching artist. Helping young people access spaces and methods for creative expression is life changing and affirming. I do this art and this work because I’ve seen

the power of the word and the impact of a young person taking the stage and sharing their ideas, in my own life and in countless others. I’ve also seen the magic that comes from receiving support and affirmation. Seeing students have access to school-wide slams and Verselandia! is a dream realized.

This is what comes to my mind when I think about the question, “What is a poetry slam?” It’s more than the format and rules and a concept by a guy in Chicago named Marc Smith; it’s a vehicle to showcase original work. Poetry slam is a format that helps artists fine-tune their craft and hone their skills. No props, no costumes, no musical accompaniment—it’s just the person, their words, the mic, and three minutes. Pure and organic. Whether we score it and have a timekeeper or not, the ancient origins of storytelling insist we continue the art form through a variety of means. And the youth continue to share stories everyone needs to hear. As they carry on a vital tradition, let’s celebrate their talents and let them know that yes, they are worthy of the titles “artist” and “writer,” and their stories matter. n

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Public youth slam poetry workshops and open mics

This winter, Literary Arts hosted workshops and open mics led by experienced performance poets.

These youth workshops were designed to inspire Portland-area high school students to share their original work at poetry slams and readings.

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Students performed at the Verselandia! citywide youth slam

Individual poetry slams were held at 11 public high schools leading up to the Verselandia! grand slam. Winners from each school competed at the culminating event at the Newmark Theatre on April 20, 2015.

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Grand champion

Gwen Frost of Cleveland High School was crowned winner of the Verselandia! 2015 Grand Slam. She competed against 20 other students in front of a live audience and a panel of judges.

We are grateful to our community of supporters

Literary Arts receives generous support from individuals, foundations, and businesses. We are grateful to our community of supporters who made a contribution to Literary Arts between June 1, 2014 and April 30, 2015.

Individuals

$10,000+

Anonymous

Joan Cirillo & Roger Cooke

Rocky & Julie Strasser Dixon

Bob & Ceil Huntington

The Mancini Family

Jan & Steve Oliva

Dan Wieden & Priscilla Bernard Wieden

$5,000+

Anonymous

Ray & Jean Auel

Diane Boly

Amy Carlsen Kohnstamm & Kevin Kohnstamm

Sue & Ed Einowski

Susheela Jayapal

John Meadows & Libby Barber

Vanessa Morgan & Robert Quillin

Jessica Mozeico

Diane Ponti & Ward Greene

$2,500+

Betsy Amster & Barry Glassner

Mike R. Barr

Tom Booth & Megan Holden

Gwyneth Gamble Booth

Nancy & Roderick Boutin

Ellyn Bye

Charles Cameron & Lyn Davidson

Cameron

Rick Comandich & Maya Muir

Ginnie Cooper

Rebecca & Michael DeCesaro

Theodore & Nancy Downes-Le Guin

Bart & Jill Eberwein

Carol Edelman

Mary Fellows

Joan Fondell

Bob Geddes

Mary E. Hirsch

David Johnson

Ursula & Charles Le Guin

Christopher Lord

Phillip M. Margolin

Anne Mendel & Mark Henry

Corrine Oishi & Lindley Morton

Amy Prosenjak & Steven Guy

Per & Liana Ramfjord

Jon Raymond

Halle M. Sadle

Norm & Barbara Sepenuk

Tom & Marcia Wood

$1,000+

Anonymous

Stephen & Melissa Babson

Bechen Family Foundation

Bowen Blair

Betty Bradshaw

Paul & Nancy Bragdon

Susan & Michael Burmeister-Brown

Karyle Butcher

Mary Louise Cook

Sybilla Cook

Alice M. Cuprill-Comas & Richard M. Short

Amy Donohue & Paul McKean

Penny & Ken Durant

Mark & Ann Edlen

Wayne & Sandy Ericksen

Andrew Glass

Betsy & Tom Henning

Judy & Hank Hummelt

Leonoor Ingraham-Swets

Barbara Jennings & Richard Teutsch

Carol Mayer-Reed & Michael Reed

Carolyn & Larry McKinney

Jack & Carolyn McMurchie

Lora & Jim Meyer

Sarah Miller Meigs and Andrew Meigs

Glenn & Widney Moore

Mona & Howard Mozeico

Molly L. Osborne

Jim & Natasha Reinhart

Judy Rice

Robin Roberts & John L. Backes

Deanne & Dick Rubinstein

Paul Schneider & Lauren Eulau

Pamela Smith Hill

Donald & Roslyn Sutherland

Dorie & Larry Vollum

Eric Wallace & Kristi Wallace Knight

Jackie & William Willingham

Steven E. Wynne & Deborah J. Hewitt

$500+

Angela Allen & Jan van Santen

Robert & Julia Ball

Kim Bissell

Anne M. Booth

Loulie J. Brown

William & Mary Ellen Buck

Peggy Busick

Jane Carlsen & John Estrem

Greg Chaillé

Brent & Barbara Chalmers

Jan Christensen

David & Denise Corey

Marian & Neale Creamer

Roberta Dyer

Marie Eckert

Barnes & Molly Ellis

Edward & Marilyn Epstein

Ellen Fader

Jim & Diana Faville

Miriam Feuerle

Bob & Konky Forster

Gretchen Grey-Hatton

Nancy & Ronald Gronowski

Tom & Cherryl Janisse

Barbara & Jock Kimberley

Paul & Molly Klazura

Susan & Rick Koe

Stacy Lewis

Ross M. Lienhart

Carter & Jennifer MacNichol

J.S. May

Michael & Sylvia McGregor

Richard Meeker & Ellen Rosenblum

Brenda L. Meltebeke & Scott K. Stuart

Philip Miller & Colleen Cain

Meghan Moran & Kirk Masterson

Milo & Beverly Ormseth

Jo Ellen Osterlind

Miriam Ostroff

Jollee Faber Patterson & John Stuart

Patterson

Linda & Ken Peterson

Andrew & Veronica Proctor

Isabel Prucha

Hilary O’Hollaren

Howard Shapiro

Stephen & Micky Shields

Shirley Skidmore

Ms. Barbara A. Sloop

Kaarin & Van Smith

Abigail L. Solomon & Eric Abrams

Miriam Sontz & Joseph Walsh

Jim & Polly Spencer

David F. Stout

Jeanne Tobey & Shannon Spence

Victor Trelawny

Alfredo & Sarah Villanueva

Benjamin & Elaine Whiteley

Dr. Candace Young

$200+

Anonymous

Geri Abere & Kenneth Abere, Sr.

Jane Adams

Robin E. Anderson

Tom & Molly Bartlett

Keith & Madge Bauer

Mary C. Becker

Dick & Renee Binns

Eileen MK Bobek

THANK YOU

Kim & Randy Boehm

Jean Bottcher

Todd Bradley

Peter & Sister Bragdon

Kathleen Bristow

Patricia Cain

Elizabeth Carnes

Becky Chinn

Patricia Cliff & Karl Von Frieling

Rachel Cody

Carol Collier & Greg Moulliet

Maribeth Collins

Liana Colombo

Timothy Crippen & Laura Jordan

Olivia Croom

Jodi Delahunt Hubbell & Todd Hubbell

Paul DenOuden

John DiLiberti

Paul Duden & Francesca Stevenson

Betty & Richard Duvall

Richard Ellegood

Margianne & Arthur Erickson

Judith Fejta

Myron D. Filene

Nick Fish & Patricia Schechter

Nancy Fishman

Timothy & Pamela Fleischmann

Deborah Flynn-Hanrahan

Ellen Fortin

Howard & Linda Franklin

Janis Fujii

Elizabeth Gemmill

Molly Gloss

Meri Grotzinger

Sara & Andrew Guest

William & Martha Hall

Julie Harrelson

Pat & Kelley Harrington

Susanne Hashim & Tom Manley

Susan Hathaway-Marxer & Larry

Marxer

Christine Heycke & Michael Korinek

Carol & Jim Hibbs

Terri & Robert Hopkins

Peter & Anne Jarvis

Barb & Chris Jones

Laura Jones & David Livermore

Patricia & Ward Jones

Marjorie Kafoury

Janice & Mark Kettler

Adam & Victoria Lane

Peter & Jennifer List

Barry Lopez & Debra Gwartney

Leslee & Robert Lukosh

Deborah Mandell & Roy Pulvers

Monique McClean & Lars

Topelmann

Brad & Julie McMurchie

Susan Mersereau

Violet & Robert Metzler

Carolyn R. & Gregory Miller

James & Elizabeth Mohr

David Morganstern

Paul Mueller

Richard Mullins & Barbara

Lenfesty

John Murphy

Eliza & Alex Nelson

Emma Oliver

Ramón A. Pagán

Karen & Marvin Pemberton

Sandy Polishuk

Bonnie & Peter Reagan

Mary Rechner & Barry Sims

Shelley & Mary Reece

Caroline Reul

Barbara & M. Burke Rice

Graham & Robyn Salisbury

Katharine Schuyler

Elizabeth Scully

Jocelyn Segall

Stephanie & Thomas Semke

Kathryn Shotzbarger

Marjorie M. Smith

Leah & William Stenson

Stephanie Stewart & Mike St. Clair

Cheryl Strayed

Steven & Marci Taylor

Alida Thacher

George & Nancy Thorn

Dan & Lisa Trisler

Debra Turner Hatcher

Vera H. Vacek

Carla Van Hoomissen

Alice Vaux

Karen Vineyard

Margaret A. Vining

Stephanie & John Volkman

Robert & Ginger Wagner

Amy Walker

Donna & Charles Weaver

Elizabeth Weil

Sally & George Wells

Cindy Williams Gutierrez

United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

Gifts in Honor of

Nobi Azumano and Bryon Garvin

Book Lovers

Ann & John Collier

Lisa Eisenberg

Bob Geddes

Florine & Daniel Gelfer

Megan Gex

Carl Johnson

Literary Arts’ 30th Anniversary

Michael Payne

Andrew Proctor

Mary Rechner and Hunt Holman

Peter Rock

Ellen F. Rosenblum

Jack Schlatter

Sadie and Joshua Welch

Gifts in Memory of

Brian G. Booth

Betty Childs Bradshaw

Ching nai-nai

Richard Fejta

Dorothy D. Hirsch

John Hobbie

Millie Kelly

Tara Sono

Interns

Will Aime

Kelsey Camacho

Laurel Cook

Alex Corey

Katherine Factor

Ben Ficklin

Mark Gotelli

Rachael Jensen

Frances Mahoney

Emma Miller

Diana Norris

Emma Parrish Post

Brooke Sahni

Sarah Stoermer

Emma Timbers

Stephanie Wong Ken

Volunteers

Ben Adams

Sheri Anderson

Stephanie Argy

Sarah Armitage

Doug Baldwin

Alexandra Behr

Jane Braunger

Nancy Carter

Donna Childs

Jenny Chu

Rebecca Clarren

Susan Climo

Phillip Coates

Eve Connell

William Cornett

Serena Crawford

Amanda Bollinger Crespo

Olivia Croom

Natasha Digges

Terry Dolan

Nancy Donehower

Cynthia Doran

Ginger Duncan

Christina Derstine

Sara Elgee

Beth Elliot

Grant Engrav

Hannah Fattor

Jinx Faulkner

Ben Ficklin

Margaret Foley

Joan Fondell

Vivian Foster

Jeanne Gabriel

Amanda Gersh

Aaron Gilbreath

Leah Gibson

Eve Goodman

Laura Gordon

Kamron Graham

Amy Gray

Carol Greist

Ellen Hansen

Susan Hathaway-Marxer

Carol Hickman

Deborah Hobbie

Juliet Hochman

Megan Holden

Susheela Jayapal

Kjerstin Johnson

Joanne Kahn

Jenn Knudsen

Suzane Kosanke

Jane Kyle

Davia Larson

Sharon Lee

Monique Levesque

Literary Arts Board of Directors

Ruth Lizotte

Brenda Lorda

Mary Manning

Amanda Mather

Kimberly Maun

Carolyn McKinney

Justine Middleton

Tara Rae Miner

John Morrison

Jessica Mozeico

Ana Muñoz

Diane Nowicki

Nicole O’Neill

Jenny Owen

Tori Padellford

Kate Pate

Maya Perez

Mark Peterman

Donna Prinzmetal

Patricia Raley

Shelley Reece

Rae Richen

Alida Rol

Crys Rosa-Baker

Kyna Rubin

Meslissa Rush

Grace Sanders

Sam Schwartz

Jonathan Shapiro

Harriet Sheridan

Robert Silverman

Georgene Sink

John Slaughter

Joe Soldati

Lisa Steves

Judy Stone

Roz Sutherland

Nanci Tangeman

Alida Thacher

Toni Thomas

Wendy Thompson

Jennifer Tiana

Jess Vacek

Cherie Vedal

Sarah Wexler

Evan Williams

Cat Wurdack

Lisa Zuniga

Businesses

$10,000+

Baker Ellis Asset Management

Bank of America

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies

First Tech Federal Credit Union

NW Natural Powell’s Books

The Standard

Stoel Rives LLP

Tonkon Torp LLP

University of Oregon

Wieden + Kennedy

$5,000+

A to Z Wineworks

Boly:Welch

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Hoffman Construction

Lewis & Clark College

Miller Nash Graham & Dunn

Pacific University

Pastini Restaurants

ZGF Architects

$1,000+

The Boeing Company

Boora Architects

Broadway Books

Gard Communications

Lennar Corporation

Reed College

Upfor Gallery

Foundations & Government Agencies

$50,000+

The Concordia Foundation

James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation

M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust

The Oregon Community Foundation

The Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and the Arts Education & Access Fund

$10,000+

The Collins Foundation

ESCO Foundation

Trevino L. Brings Plenty

2015 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipient

Indians

Even as Indian, the title is of artifact. You kept criticizing these titles for your understanding of place.

We kept telling you we are humans, we are the people, and that sometimes includes you.

So easily the term Indian can be equally exchanged for devil. Devil’s lake, tower, food. Your mythologies don’t resonate, I understand your displacement, your projections, your intentions. We will continue to tell you we are humans, we are the people, and that sometimes includes you.

Oregon Arts Commission

PGE Foundation

Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation

Herbert A. Templeton Foundation Trust Management Services, LLC

Work for Art, including contributions from more than 75 companies and 2,000 employees

$5,000+

The Bloomfield Family Foundation

The Bill Healy Foundation

Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund

The Nara Fund

The Neuner Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

Storms Family Foundation

U.S. Bancorp Foundation

Wyss Foundation

up to $5,000

Autzen Foundation

Clifford and Doris Carlsen Family Fund of The Oregon

Community Foundation

Demorest Family Foundation

Susan Hammer Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

Philip S. Harper Foundation

Edna L. Holmes Literary Arts Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

The Holzman Foundation, Inc.

The Jackson Foundation

Keller Foundation

Kinder Morgan Foundation

Multnomah County Cultural Coalition

OSU Foundation

Robert & Marilyn Ridgley Charitable Gift Fund

Carol Schnitzer Lewis Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

Susan Dee Schnitzer Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

The Spark Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation

Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust

the Oregon Community Foundation

Community Partners

Albany Public Library

Annie Bloom’s Books

Back Fence PDX

Baker City Public Library

Betty’s Books (Baker City)

BiPartisan Café

Broadway Books

Black Parent Initiative

Bluehour Restaurant

Burnside Review

Café au Play

Caldera

Cathedral Coffee

Chehalem Cultural Center (Newberg)

Coffee House Press

Dahl Family Youth Center

Donald E. Long School

Eastern Oregon University (La Grande)

Fishtrap

Four Way Books

Glimmertrain

HarperCollins

Hollywood Theatre

Independent Publishing Resource Center

Jack Straw Writers

Jefferson County Middle School (Madras)

Klamath County Library (Klamath Falls)

Lane Literary Guild

Late Night Library

The Library Foundation

Loggernaut

Londer Learning Center

Los Porteños

McSweeney’s

Milagro Theater

Miss Zumstein Bakery & Coffee Shop

The Moth

Multnomah County Library

Multnomah County

Youth Commission

North Bend Public Library (North Bend)

Oregon Historical Society

OPB

Oregon Writers Colony

Ooligan Press

The Oregonian

Origins Coffee

Penguin Random House

Poetry Press Week

Portland’5 Centers for the Arts

Portland Art Museum

Portland Center Stage

Portland Community College

Portland Jazz Festival

Portland State University

MFA Program

Powell’s Books

Profile Theatre

Public School Principals

Petra Callin, Madison High School

Carol Campbell, Grant High School

Peyton Chapman, Lincoln High School

Brian Chatard, Wilson High School

Margaret Calvert, Jefferson High School

Paul Cook, Cleveland High School

Lorna Fast Buffalo Horse, Alliance High School

Filip Hristic, Roosevelt High School

John Koch, Gresham High School

Macarre Traynham, Metropolitan Learning Center

Juanita Valder, Franklin High School

Curtis Wilson, Benson High School

Public School Librarians

Paige Battle

Elaine Ferrel Burns

Linda Campillo

Sandra Childs

Fred Fox

Kiva Liljequist

Bryan Smith

Nancy Sullivan

Betsy Tighe

Public School Teachers

Harris Ambinder

Amy Ambrosio

Susie Bartley

Jennifer Bird

Mark Bond

Matthew Boyer

Teresa Brandt

Ilsa Bruer

Gene Brunak

Barry Cochran

Stephanie D’Cruz

Mykhiel Deych

Kathy Diamond

Jacque Dixon

Chris Dreyer

Jennifer Edelson

Holly Vaughn Edwards

Mary Flamer

Daniel Fredgant

Jim Gardenhire

Alex Gordin

Emily Gromko

Crystal Hanson

Zoe Edelen Hare

Mike Heisler

Emily Hensley

Keri Hughes

Jamie Incorvia

Cindy Irby

Aimee Jo

Irma Johnson

Tom Kane

Celeste Karzon

Nam Kirn Khalsa

Crystel Kinnee

Tina Kuchinski

Andy Kulak

Stephen Lambert

Dylan Leeman

Sarabeth Leitch

Eric Levine

Morgan McFadden

Alethea Mock

Desiree Montoya

Dave Mylet

Julie O’Neill

Jenny Owen

Eric Pohl

Phillip Rafferty

Cesar Ramirez

Mary Rodeback

Alicia Smith

Kris Risher-Spurlock

Amy Taramasso

Catherine Theriault

Erin Tillery

Dana Vinger

Rachel Wilczewski

Amy Wright

Anna York

Desi Zak

Reynolds High School

Self Enhancement Inc.

Tin House

Trillium Charter School

tNY Press

The New York Times

Wordcrafters

Write Around Portland

Writers on the Edge (Newport)

Literary Arts Staff

Andrew Proctor, Executive Director

Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino

Amanda Bullock

Lydah DeBin

Susan Denning

Megan Gex

Jennifer Gurney

Alex Ney

Paige O’Rourke

Mary Rechner

Mel Wells

Kyle White

WITS Contractors

Hunt Holman

Joanna Rose

Literary Arts Board of Directors

Jessica Mozeico, Chair

Betsy Amster

Mike Barr

Amy Carlsen Kohnstamm

Alice Cuprill-Comas

Ginnie Cooper

Rebecca DeCesaro

Amy Donohue

Theo Downes-Le Guin

Marie Eckert

Robert Geddes

Karen Karbo

John Meadows

Deidra Miner

Amy Prosenjak

Jon Raymond

James Reinhart

Barry Sanders

Pamela Smith Hill

Jacqueline Willingham

Thomas Wood

Strunk & White Society

An honorary society of distinguished advisors

Gwyneth Gamble Booth

Bart Eberwein

Brian Gard

Diana Gerding

Molly Gloss

Carrie Hoops

Cecelia Huntington

Ursula K. Le Guin

Barry Lopez

Julie Mancini

Brenda Meltebeke

Diane Ponti

Michael Powell

Halle Sadle

Steven Taylor

Steve Wynne

Patron Advisory Council

Susan Hathaway-Marxer, Co-Chair

Sue Einowski

Barnes H. Ellis

Ann Emmerson

Nancy Gronowski

Leslie Heilbrunn

Phillip M. Margolin

Vanessa McLaughlin

Deidra Miner

Jan Oliva

Katherine O’Neil

Nancy Ponzi

Dru Rosenthal

Grace Sanders

Barbara Sepenuk

Roslyn Sutherland

Kristi Wallace Knight

Mort Zalutsky

Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships Advisory Committee

Jon Raymond, Chair

Tom Booth

Nancy Boutin

Karyle Butcher

Olivia Croom

Julie Dixon

Cecelia Huntington

Linda Leslie

Michael McGregor

Meghan Moran

Tony Perez

Barry Sanders

Pamela Smith Hill

Armin Tolentino

Writers in the Schools Advisory Council

Susheela Jayapal, Chair

Amy Carlsen Kohnstamm

Joan Fondell

Diana Gerding

Manuel Mateo

Ana Muñoz

Ramón Pagán

Catherine Theriault

Kristin Walrod

Cindy Williams Gutiérrez

Tracey Wyatt

Sharon Wynde

Wordstock Advisory Council

Betsy Amster, Chair

Jenny Chu

Masie Cochran

Susan Denning

Rachel Fershleiser

Karen Karbo

Lisa Lucas

J.S. May

Katie O’Dell

Olivia Olivia

Sarah Rothenfluch

Kevin Sampsell

Joshua Wolf Shenk

Rob Spillman

Nancy Sullivan

Ashley Toliver Thank

James Reinhart, Co-Chair

Seth Alley

Marian Creamer

Rebecca DeCesaro

Amy Donohue

Poetry in Motion

In partnership with TriMet and the Poetry Society of America, Literary Arts helped bring Poetry in Motion back to Portland. This program aims to make commuting more literary by bringing poems to bus shelters, benches, and buses.

This year’s Poetry in Motion lineup features poems from three Writers in the Schools students and nine Oregon Book Award winners.

This World

Ngoc Le, Madison High School

I believe in the minty toothpaste, the cool splash of water that makes me wake up every morning, yellow leaves, noisy cars, bright paper.

I believe in old shoes, school bells, and pencils. Sour fruit, the smell of freshly washed clothes, tiny ants that carry big pieces of cake. Dust, heavy tears, the laughter of a child. The warmth of my mother which makes me realize that this world is not some 2-D image I watch on TV.

The bus that missed me, the rushing footsteps, the feeling that the whole world passes me, leaves me without a clue, and makes me wonder if I should join this busy world or stay in my own.