Michael McDowell

A reading by Michael McDowell, Wednesday, April 13th, 2016 7pm at the Ledding Library Pond House, 2215 SE Harrison St. Milwaukie, OR 97222.

Michael McDowell is the author of the book of poetry The Hundred-Year House. His poetry appears regularly in Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, which he has co-edited with Bill Siverly since 2002. His prose about nature and landscape writing has appeared in the anthologies The Ecocriticism Reader, Reading the Earth, and Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment. Of The Hundred-Year House, Robert Michael Pyle has written, “Awake to the land, its life, and their working parts as only the lucky young discover them, McDowell tells his wonderfully varied tales with wit, whimsy, and devastating aim.” A graduate of Stanford University with a PhD from the University of Oregon, he taught literature and writing at Portland Community College for thirty-five years.

Learn more about the Milwaukie Poetry Series at:

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