Deschutes Public Library

Second Sunday

Second Sunday is a monthly celebration of poetry and prose. Each month, a regional writer is chosen to read a selection from their work. An open mic follows the guest reader, where poets both novice and published are invited to share their work.




Events

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Second Sunday: Know Local Authors
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

Celebrate local authors at the Downtown Bend Public Libraries on July 8, 2012 at 2:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public.

“We believe that giving local authors an opportunity to shine is important,” said Chantal Strobel, Community Relations Coordinator for Deschutes Public Library. “Last year we had over 20 local authors read at our first Know Local Authors event.” Each participating author will have an opportunity to read and to sell their books. This year, the Local Authors event is part of the Second Sunday series, the monthly celebration of prose and poetry followed where writers and poets of all levels share their work in a friendly and encouraging atmosphere. Interested authors should submit an application that is available online.

“Last year, we had poets, mystery writers, memoirists, and fiction authors participate last year,” said Strobel. “We’re happy to support our local authors and offer this event a second time.”



Second Sunday
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

A monthly celebration of prose and poetry followed by an open mic where writers and poets of all levels share their work in a friendly and encouraging atmosphere. Free and open to the public.



Second Sunday: Chris Anderson and Cecelia Hagen
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday present Chris Anderson, author of “The Next Thing Always Belongs” and Cecelia Hagen, author of “Entering”, who will both read a selection from their work on Sunday, May 13th, 2:00 p.m. at the Downtown Bend Public Library in the Brooks Room. An open mic will follow the reading. This program is free and open to the public.

Cecelia Hagen is the author of Entering (Airlie Press, 2011) and of two chapbooks, Fringe Living (26 Books Press) and Among Others (Traprock Books). Her poetry, reviews, and nonfiction have been published by Rolling Stone, Prairie Schooner, Poet & Critic, Northwest Review, Caffeine Destiny, Blood Orange Review, Cream City Review, and many other publications. Her work was recently selected to be included in a public art project at the new Kaiser Medical Center in Hillsboro, Oregon. She was the fiction editor for Northwest Review for a number of years and co-founded a writers-in-the-schools program in Lane County.

Chris Anderson is a professor of English at OSU and the author of a number of books. Brian Doyle, author of Mink River, says of his book The Next Thing Always Belongs, “Odd, thoughtful, darting, swirling, funny, poignant, startling—this is the most unusual book of poemstories and singingdreams you will ever read, period. Wrestlers and ukuleles, angels and spiders, the precision of rain, Mister Rogers and Abe Lincoln in heaven together . . . I mean, wow, and whoa, and for heaven’s sake shell out the fifteen bucks and go sit in the sun and read this straight through, marveling. You’ll smile and pray. Trust me.”



Second Sunday: Visions of Home
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday will host “Visions of Home”, a thematic reading and discussion by poets George Estreich, Charles Goodrich, and Marjorie Sandor, on the meaning of home and living in Oregon. This presentation will take place on Sunday, March 11th at the Downtown Public Library, at 2:00 p.m. An open mic will follow the reading, which is free and open to the public.

Each poet has written a book that meditates extensive on the meanings of “home” here in Oregon: Charles, in “The Practice of Home”, his account of family, gardening and building a house; Marjorie, in her book of essays, “The Night Gardener: A Search for Home”, and more recently in “The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction”, both of which link the hands-on practice of gardening with larger questions of family, loss, and change; and George, in “The Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit”, an at-home dad’s memoir of raising a daughter with Down Syndrome, set against a backdrop of home renovation. All three writers, in very different ways, have set the literal, hands-on, messy aspects of home (gardening, renovation, daily tasks) against the larger questions implicit in living and making a family in specific ways.



Second Sunday: Rick Steber
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday are pleased by present an afternoon with local western writer Rick Steber on Sunday, February 12th at 2:00 p.m. in the Brooks Room of the Downtown Bend Public Library. An open mic will follow the reading and this event is free and open to the public.

Rick Steber has gained a well-deserved national reputation and is best known for writing honest stories about the strong people and the open landscapes of the Old West. His gift to all of us is saving the stories of people that otherwise would be lost and forgotten.



Second Sunday: “Let’s Talk About It – Making Sense of the Civil War” Kick Off
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

One hundred and fifty years later, and we are still talking about the Civil War. How does the legacy of the Civil War and emancipation affect our lives today? We kick off “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War”, a new reading and discussion series at Deschutes Public Library with period music, a preview of the series, and a presentation by COCC professor Jacob Agatucci on the life and poetry of Walt Whitman. Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. Books and program materials available for series participants. Sign up for series online or call 541/312-1032.



Second Sunday: Kim Cooper Findling
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday are pleased to announce a reading by Bend writer Kim Cooper Findling. An open mic will follow the reading. This presentation is free and open to the public.

Kim Cooper Findling is the author of Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir. In her debut as an author, Findling’s memoir unfolds the story of an Oregon girl coming of age in the 1970s and 80s, navigating her way through pick-up trucks, dive bars, higher education and backwoods trails before finding a place she belongs.

In 23 essays set over 20 years, Findling traces her own coming-of-age story against the beauty and complexity of the Oregon landscape. “In so many ways my story is every small-town kid’s story, especially those who grew up in Oregon in the 70s and 80s. Our beautiful rural towns were a weird combination of innocent and harsh, and almost all of us spent our youth waiting to get out. Yet we were totally unprepared for the racous, fast-paced city. For me, all that action was completely irresistible, and ultimately destructive,” says Findling. “It was so much fun to write about Oregon’s dichotomies—lovely innocence and a wild darkside. I realized they are my own.”

Kim Cooper Findling grew up on the Oregon Coast, spent several years in the Willamette Valley and has lived in Central Oregon for sixteen years. Her work has appeared in many publications over the last decade, including Travel Oregon, Horizon Air, Oregon Quarterly, Hip Mama, Sky West, The Best Places to Kiss NW and High Desert Journal. She is the author of Day Trips From Portland: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler, published by Globe Pequot Press, May 2011.



Second (First) Sunday: Keith Scribner
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
11:00 AM

Second Sunday and the Nature of Words literary festival present a reading by Keith Scribner, whose third novel The Oregon Experiment,, was released in June 2011. This event will take place on Sunday, November 6th at 11:00 am in the Brooks Room of the Downtown Bend Public Library. This event is free and open to the public, and an open mic will follow the reading.

Scribner’s two previous novels, published by Riverhead Books, are The GoodLife and Miracle Girl. The GoodLife was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series, and was a New York Times Notable book of the year.

His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, Quarterly West, The North Atlantic Review, the San Jose Mercury News, the Baltimore Sun, and the anthologies Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton) and Sudden Stories: The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction. He received both Pushcart and O’Henry Prize Honorable Mentions for his short story, “Paradise in a Cup” (TriQuarterly, #121).

Scribner received his BA from Vassar College and MFA from the University of Montana. He was awarded Wallace Stegner and John L’Heureux Fellowships in Fiction at Stanford University, where he went on to teach in the Creative Writing Program as a Jones Lecturer. He currently lives in Oregon with his wife, the poet Jennifer Richter, and their children. He teaches in Oregon State University’s MFA program and is a fellow at OSU’s Center for the Humanities.



Second Sunday: The High Desert Poetry Cell
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

Join the local authors of The High Desert Poetry Cell as they read from their work at the monthly Second Sunday program in the Brooks Room at the Bend Public Library.

For the past five years, local poets John Martin, Don Kunz, John Kvapil, Peter Lovering and Larry Jacobs have met monthly to discuss and critique each other’s poetry. In 2009, billing themselves as the High Desert Poetry cell, they decided to put their work together into one volume and self-published a collection titled The Guys’ Big Book of Poetry. They now have a second volume called The Guys’ Home Relationship Maintenance & Improvement Poetry Manual, published by Two Ravens Publications. Proceeds from the sale of their second volume are being donated to Saving Grace of Central Oregon, a non-profit organization which provides services to the victims of domestic violence.



Second Sunday: Freddy Vilches
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday are pleased to announce a presentation called “Know South America: The Intersection of Literature and Music in South American Culture” by Lewis and Clark Assistant Professor Freddy Vilches. In addition to his Second Sunday appearance on Sunday, September 11th at 2:00 pm at the Downtown Bend Public Library, he will also be giving his presentation on Saturday, September 10 at the Redmond Public Library at 3:00 pm. An open mic will follow the Second Sunday reading.



Second Sunday: Know Local Authors!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
12:30 PM

Over the course of two days, 19 local authors take center stage at Deschutes Public Library. Writers, both experienced and new, will share and sell their work on both days. The participating writers work in genres ranging from historical fiction to how to books and everything in between.

On Saturday, August 13, 2011, the readings begin at 12:00 pm at the East Bend Public Library and on Sunday, August 14, readings begin at 12:30 pm at the Downtown Bend Public Library. The participating writers applied to be a part of the reading which is scheduled to be an annual event at the library each August. The readings are free and open to the public.



Second Sunday: Maxine Scates
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 PM

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday are pleased to present a reading by Eugene poet Maxine Scates. An open mic will follow the reading.

Maxine Scates was born and raised in Los Angeles, she received a B.A. in English from CSU Northridge, where she studied with the poet Ann Stanford, whose selected poems she later c0-edited with another former student of Stanford’s, the poet David Trinidad.

She is the author of three books of poetry, “Undone” (New Issues 2011) “Toluca Street” and “Black Loam”..Her poems have been widely published in such journals as AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Ironwood, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Her work has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, The Oregon Book Award for Poetry, the Lyre Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She has taught at Lane Community College, Lewis and Clark College and most recently Reed College. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.



Second Sunday: Telling It Slant - A Poetry Writing Workshop with Judith Montgomery
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Deschutes Public Library Administration Building
11:00 a.m.

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday are offering a free poetry writing workshop with local writer Judith Montgomery.

Workshop participants will set the stage for writing by exploring “phantom narrator” poems by Cornelius Eady and contemporary twists on fairytales to open possibilities for alternative narrators—real or imagined bystanders, animals, inanimate objects, and other non-traditional storytellers—to see how differently events may be understood, undercut, and illuminated. Participants will write, at least twice, in response to photographs, paintings, and other artifacts to explore both the apparent and the many hidden stories. Participants are encouraged to bring such artifacts to share.

Judith Montgomery is the author of “Passion” (Oregon Book Award for Poetry 2000), “Red Jess” (2006), and “Pulse and Constellation” (2007).  Her poems appear in such journals as Ars Medica, The Bellingham Review, Dogwood, and Northwest Review. She lives and writes in Bend, where she is working on two new manuscripts with the aid of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and Literary Arts.



Second Sunday: Matt Love
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 p.m.


The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday have partnered to bring Newport writer Matt Love to Bend. He will be reading a selection from his work on Sunday, May 8, 2011 in the Brooks Room of the Downtown Bend Library at 2:00 p.m. An open mic will follow. This event is free and open to the public.

Frustrated with life, teaching, and the inability to become a writer, Matt Love escaped Portland in 1997 at 33 years of age and moved to the Oregon Coast. A year later he became caretaker of the 600-acre Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge. During his decade as caretaker, he helped restore the grounds to fuller ecology, discovered a love for teaching, and reinvented himself as a writer and historian who established Nestucca Spit Press. “Gimme Refuge: The Education of a Caretaker” is his passionate 777-page account of his teaching career and his experience as a caretaker. “Becoming the caretaker of the refuge was the biggest break of my life”, said Love. “I sincerely doubt I would have found my voice as a writer or developed my unique love for Oregon without this incredible opportunity. It also helped me return to teaching and to embrace and love that profession”.




Second Sunday: Jawad Khan
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Downtown Bend Public Library
2:00 p.m.


Jawad Khan, of the Muslim Education Trust of Portland, discusses the poetic nature of the Quran and its influence on both eastern and western literature. Open mic follows.

Jawad Khan is a member of the Muslim Education Trust’s Board of Directors as well as the MET’s Outreach Committee. He teaches language arts and social studies classes at the Oregon Islamic Academy High School and takes an active role in counseling and advising OIA students in preparation for college.




Second Sunday: Sarahlee Lawrence
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
Redmond Public Library
2:00 p.m.

Second Sunday: Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Downtown Bend Library, Brooks Room
2:00 p.m.

The Deschutes Public Library is proud to present two readings by Sarahlee Lawrence, local author of the memoir, River House.

An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is a young woman’s story about returning home. Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote Central Oregon and spent her days dreaming about leaving her small town for adventure. As a young woman, she set out on a worldly white water rafting trek, but ironically, following her passion along the most coveted arteries of the world led her right back to the least expected place—to her dusty beginnings and her family’s ranch—to her River House.




Second Sunday: Ellen Waterston
Sunday, February 13^th
The Bend Public Library, Brooks Room
2:00 p.m.

Come celebrate the release of Ellen Waterston’s new collection of essays, Where the Crooked River Rises, A High Desert Home, at February’s Second Sunday.

Where the Crooked River Rises was released in October 2010 by Oregon State University Press. Each of the essays takes its inspiration from an aspect of the high desert of Central Oregon, where Waterston lived and ranched for two decades. Since it’s release, Where the Crooked River Rises has received accolades from a number of Northwest writers.

Ellen Waterston was recently rewarded the 2011/2012 Ann Werner writer-in-residence by Fishtrap in Enterprise, Oregon. Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Best Essays Northwest, High Desert Journal, Oregon Quarterly, Ronde Dance and New Poets of the American West. Her memoir, Then There Was No Mountain, was rated one of the top ten books by the Oregonian in 2003. She lives in Bend, OR where she is the executive director and founder of The Nature of Words and president of the Writing Ranch.


Second Sunday: Suzanne Burns and Quinton Hallett
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
The Bend Public Library, Brooks Room
2:00 p.m.

For January’s Second Sunday, Suzanne Burns will take the stage and read a selection of her work. The reading will take place on Sunday, January 9th, at 2:00 p.m. in the Brooks Room of the Bend Public Library. This reading is free and open to the public, and an open mic will follow.

Local favorite Suzanne Burns is the author of Misfits and Other Heroes, and the newly released chapbook The Widow. Burns’ first poetry collection Blight, debuted from Archer Books in 2001, and she has followed up with several since that time. Her poetry collection, The Flesh Collection, was released in 2005 and was a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Finalist in the poetry category. Other work includes The Dream Tree, and Double Header, plus her most recent poetry chapbook The Widow. She has performed her work at Wordstock in Portland. She lives and writes in Bend, Oregon, and is currently working on a novel.




Second Sunday: Alan Contreras
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
The Bend Public Library, Brooks Room
2:00 p.m.

The Deschutes Public Library and Second Sunday are pleased to present a reading by nature writer and poet Alan Contrares on Sunday, December 12th, 2010 in the Brooks Room of the Bend Public Library at 2:00 p.m. An open mic will follow the reading, and this event is free and open to the public.

Alan Contreras is a fourth-generation Oregonian and has been birding and writing about birds since he was 11 years old. His main publications are Birds of Oregon (2003), Handbook of Oregon Birds, (2000), Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West (1997), all from Oregon State University Press, and the poetry collection Night Crossing from Cranedance. He lives in Eugene and works for the Oregon State Assistance Commission.




Second (First) Sunday in Collaboration with Nature of Words: Paulann Peterson
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Bend Public Library, Brooks Room
11:00 a.m.

Paulann Petersen is Oregon’s newly appointed Poet Laureate. The author of four chapbooks and four full-length collections, she is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. A fifth collection, The Voluptuary, will be released in November 2010 by Lost Horse Press. Petersen was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for A Bride of Narrow Escape. She is the force behind the annual series of William Stafford birthday Readings held in January throughout Oregon. Peterson has taught poetry workshops for colleges, libraries, and writers’ conferences, including Fishtrap, Oregon Writers’ Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and The Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College. An open mic for Nature of Words writing workshop participants will follow the reading.




Second Sunday: Denise Fainberg
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Bend Public Library, Brooks Room
2:00 p.m.

Denise Fainberg has lived in the Northwest since 1988. A freelance, writer, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Spiritual Life, and other publications. When she’s not traveling, she teaches foreign languages at Central Oregon Community College. She lives in Bend and is the author of Oregon: An Explorer’s Guide, and most recently, Washington: An Explorer’s Guide.




Happy 6th Birthday Second Sunday!
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Bend Public Library, Brooks Room
2:00 p.m.

To celebrate six years of outstanding live prose and poetry, local poets and writers will read a selection of past guest readers. An open mic will follow and cake and refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Last modified on Tuesday, May 01, 2012