Thursday, February 11, 2021
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■ Reading by poet Megan Alpert ■ Join the Brown Bag Book Club
LA GRANDE — Megan Alpert, poet and journalist, will read at the
next ACE Writing Project gathering, a virtual event beginning at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 17.
Alpert’s 2020 poetry collection, “The Animal at Your Side,” won the
Airlie Prize and was a fi nalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems
have appeared in Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review,
Quarterly West, Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly and many oth-
ers. As a journalist, she has reported for The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The
Guardian and Foreign Policy.
According to Shaindel Beers, author of “Secure Your Own Mask,” “‘The
Animal at Your Side’ spans worlds — Eastern Europe, China, Ecuador,
folktale, and myth — all of these worlds equally sinister and haunting. In
poems where we feel ‘the whirr-click of war beginning . . .’ the poet learns
that the best way to survive is to become ‘the same color as rocks, water,
/ anything I walked past, / see-through.’ This is Megan Alpert’s gift to us
— radical empathy — so we can shape-shift through these worlds as she
has.”
Wednesday’s free event will conclude with a community open mic. Sign-
up begins at 6:45 p.m. (maximum 10 readers, each with a fi ve-minute
reading limit).
To access the Zoom gathering, register at www.artcentereast.org/calen-
dar/ then scroll down and choose the Feb. 17 Writing Project.
The ACE Writing Project is held the third Wednesday of the month and
facilitated by Nancy Knowles and Amelia
Ettinger.
seat at 50% capacity • 541-575-1970
2 - 10oz Rib Eye, soup or salad, roll and
of potato; comes with an appetizer
Add on a lobster tail
or sauteed or breaded shrimp
for $14 each
Valentine’s Dinner
February 13th and 14th, 4-8PM
Reservations recommended as we have to
seat at 50% capacity • 541-575-1970
2 - 10oz Rib Eye, soup or salad, roll and choice of potato; comes
with an appetizer and a dessert to share - $50
Add on a lobster tail
or sauteed or breaded shrimp for $14 each
Grubsteak Mining Co.
Restaurant
149 E Main
St., John Day & Lounge
541-575-1970
JOSEPH — The Feb. 23 Brown Bag hosted by the Josephy Center will
be a gathering of the Black History Month Book Group. Beginning at
noon, the virtual book group will discuss “Breaking Chains: Slavery on
Trial in the Oregon Territory” by R. Gregory Nokes.
“Breaking Chains” tells the story of the only slavery case adjudicated
in Oregon’s pre-Civil War courts: Holmes v. Ford. Through the lens of this
landmark case, Nokes explores the historical context of racism in Oregon
and the West, reminding readers that there actually were slaves in Ore-
gon. Join the discussion via the Zoom link at www.josephy.
org/event/black-history-month-book-group-brown-bag.
Copies of the book are on sale at the Josephy Center,
($19.95 less a 20% book group discount, so $14 for a book
you will want in your library). Buy the book online at
www.josephy.org/product/breaking-chains-slavery-on-trial-
in-the-oregon-territory.
ATTENTION
READERS
GO! editors are seeking book
reviews written by local readers and
information on book clubs and other
literary happenings in Northeast
Oregon. Send submissions and ideas
to lkelly@lagrandeobserver.com.
GENRE BOOK CLUB
Cook Memorial Library’s
Genre Book Club meets on-
line Thursday, Feb. 25, at 2
p.m. This month members will
discuss dystopian and post-
apocalyptic fiction they’ve
read. The club is free and
open to all adults. Join
anytime. Email rpeackock@
cookmemoriallibrary.org for
the meeting login.