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The Museum at Warm Springs Postpones August 2021 Huckleberry Harvest Events Until Further Notice cascadebusnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cascadebusnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Museum at Warm Springs has postponed its annual Huckleberry Harvest events in Portland until further notice. Health and safety concerns for event guests due to the renewed spread of COVID-19 in Oregon were major factors contributing to the Museum's decision to postpone the late-August events. "Our decision to postpone our events was both difficult and responsible," said Museum Board of Directors President Donald J. Stastny. "We treasure our friends and members and, while we love to celebrate the Museum and its successes, we do not want to put either our friends or tribal members in a compromised situation. The current situation with COVID has led the Museum administration and the Board of Directors to a decision to postpone our events until the spring. We trust and hope that we will all gather to celebrate then." The August events were to include an Honor Dinner on Friday, August 27 at the Portland Art Museum and "Morning with the Laureates Living th ....
Contributors’ Notes Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. His poems and translations are featured or forthcoming in Poetry, AzonaL, Sara Backer’s first book of poetry, Such Luck (Flowstone Press, 2019), follows two poetry chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press, 2018) and Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork, 2015). Her honors include the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize competition, eight Pushcart nominations, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi Resident Artists Programs. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, lives in New Hampshire, and reads for the Maine Review. Point, Marianne Boruch’s tenth book of poetry is The Anti-Grief (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). She has written three essay collections about poetry, most recently ....
Current U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native American to hold the position, will read her poems at an event hosted by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library on Saturday, March 20, at 4 p.m. Part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series, this normally large in-person event will be held online due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Attendees are asked to register here to receive a viewing link prior to the event, which is open to the public at no charge. Harjo became the 23rd poet laureate of the United States in 2019 and was recently appointed by the Library of Congress to a rare third term, to begin in September 2021. She is an internationally renowned musician, writer and citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma. ....
Rita Dove In 1993, Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person – and the first African-American – to receive this highest official honor in American Poetry. She served 1993-1995. In 1999 she was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999/2000, The Library of Congress Bicentennial year. From 2004-2006, she served as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Thomas and Beulah” (1987), author of numerous poetry books, a novel, short stories, a play, and is editor of “The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.” Her honors include the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama the only poet ever to receive both medals as well as the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of Americ ....