How many blogs can a writer have and properly maintain? In the future we'll keep this one updated more regularly as it evolves slightly to share reports and thoughts on Portland's literary scene. We'll still keep you updated on our progress and development for community projects and the larger Writers' Room idea, but these efforts have led us to many fascinating literary corners of Portland.
The laundry list of artists, professionals, and total characters whom we've been honored to meet, share and exchange ideas with, to network, to chat with about possibilities for our beautiful city's future as a beacon for writers... it reads like a gigantic Torah scroll that just several months ago I would have thought impossible to manage.
We've been out tromping through giddy, fun-filled literary afternoons: from meeting with the Oregon Literary Coalition, to small readings at places like Powell's and the St. Johns Bookstore, to the monthly meetings of Willamette Writers, to the Ooligan Open House, to Wordstock, to the OR Book Awards, to Dangerous Writers, to the ongoing creation of the William Stafford Studio... so many names come to mind of people I want to hang out with daily for their kind, cool, awesome, literary thoughts, amazing creative energy, and general sweet disposition as movers and shakers in Portland's creative writing arts.
Basically I'm in awe of how many amazing writers surround Portland (and Oregon in general). If ever a place were a candidate for that ever-sought amorphous community a la the next Algonquin Round Table, methinks Portland is its home. No need to wait to be invited to the table with these larger-than-life literary characters. Just step out to any of a hundred events a month happening all around us.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
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