December 4th, 7:00pm,
Anita Building
1312 Commercial, Astoria
Anita Astoria is proud to present Authors of Earth, an evening of readings by Northwest writers. Fisherpoet Moe Bowstern will read from her 17-issue series Good Night People of Earth, featuring daily observations of everyday resistance during the first fourteen months of lockdown. Cliff Taylor, a writer, poet, speaker, storyteller and enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, will read poems or bite-size prose pieces both published and unpublished, including work from Notes of an Indigenous Futurist, forthcoming from Hema Press.
Audience is invited to co-curate the readings by submitting a date between March 14, 2020 and July 13, 2021; Moe will read the corresponding entry; authors will alternate brief poetic expressions of resistance, liberation, community care, and other authentic responses to participating as artists in a time of social and climate crisis. There will be a joint Q and A discussion following the readings.
Refreshments available by donation. The event is free and all ages. Masks provided and encouraged.
Cliff Taylor’s essays and poems have been published both online with lastrealindians.com, where he is a regular contributor, and in print with The Yellow Medicine Review, Jelly Bucket, Oakwood Magazine, and Hipfish Monthly. He is the author of The Memory of Souls, a memoir of the Sundance and his walk/life with the little people, and the recent poetry collection The Native Who Never Left. A Nebraskan through and through, he currently resides on the Oregon Coast with his sweetheart of many years.
Moe Bowstern contributes to underground literary cultural traditions as a reader, writer, and editor, best known for the commercial fishing zine Xtra Tuf, which shares her life in the Alaska salmon, halibut, herring, cod, and crab fisheries. After moving to Portland, from 1997 to 2007 Moe gave her time to DIY social practice projects, co-creating space for citizens to protest within the queer, fun-centered, anarchist Amalgamated Everlasting Union Chorus, and making ceremony outside of mainstream capitalism with an annual mega-collaboration, the Winter Solstice Puppet Show, among other projects. She is a grateful member of the Astoria Fisherpoets community. She earns wages and healthcare at a warehouse.
Moe Bowstern: 503-914-7304; goodnightpeopleofearth@gmail.com
Links:
Cliff Taylor: Cliff Ponca:Cliffponca@gmail.com
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