Carl Adamshick received the 2010 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets judged by Marvin Bell. His book, Curses and Wishes, is published by Louisiana State University Press and received the 2012 Oregon Book Award Stafford/Hall prize for poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in Narrative, American Poetry Review, Tin House, The Harvard Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Open mic will follow Carl's reading. Books will be available for sale.







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