David Biespiel

A reading by David Biespiel, Wednesday, January 14th, 2015 7pm at the Ledding Library Pond House, 2215 SE Harrison St. Milwaukie, OR 97222.

David Biespiel is the author or editor of eight books. His most recent collections of poems are Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which received the Oregon Book Award, as well as the Everyman's Library anthology, Poems of the American South. His books of prose include Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces and A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns, due out in March 2015. He is president of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters which Willamette Week calls the "best place to study creative writing in Portland."

He’s a contributor to American Poetry Review, Parnassus, Poetry, Slate, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic. From 2002 to 2014 he was the columnist on poetry for The Oregonian. In 2005 he was named editor of Poetry Northwest. He now writes a column for The Rumpus.

Learn more about the Milwaukie Poetry Series at:

http://www.milwaukieoregon.gov/library/milwaukie-poetry-series