October 16
7 PM
Newport Visual Arts Center
777 NW Beach Drive
Newport OR 97365
open mic follows
Admission $6.00
Free to Students
Pamela Steele was born in her grandfather's house on the banks of Laurel Creek, in Fayette County, West Virginia. She now lives on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Oregon. She is a graduate of Spalding University's MFA in Writing program, a recipient of a Fishtrap fellowship, a Jentel Artists Fellowship, and the Jim Wayne Miller Poetry Prize. She is the author of , , and , her first full-length poetry collection.
"Pamela Steele's poetry is the real deal. Favorites of mine in this book are "Above Us Only Sky" and "Tom Buzzard's Widow." Her spot-on imagery and economical use of language make each poem pack a punch." —Shaindel Beers
"Pammie steals my heart and my longings for home, culture, and roots all in one book. She's a magician with words in ways I can't even begin to describe." —Erinn Cox
"Steele transforms the ordinary-- cupping moments like the source of light in the palms of her hands. Here, she says, see beyond our time here. is a luminous collection of poems. Honest and spare, wistful and haunting." —Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
"The heart of Pam Steele’s poems beats for all of us." —Peter Sears, The Brink
Penelope Scambly Schott's publishing credits include a novel, four chapbooks and eight full-length books of poetry. Schott has received the 2004 Turning Point Poetry Prize, the Orphic Prize, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her verse biography, , won the 2008 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award for poetry. She is also the recent winner of the Sarah Lantz Memorial Poetry Book Prize for her manuscript Crow Mercies. Her newest collection of poems is . Penelope Scambly Schott is a former professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College and Rutgers University and has taught poetry writing at Thomas Edison State College. She has been awarded fellowships by the New Jersey Council on the Arts and residencies at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Vermont Studio Center, and most recently at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.
Penelope's titles include:
