ANNOUNCEMENT
In 2010, I was invited to be Poet Laureate for Friends of Chamber Music in Portland Oregon, composing poems while attending concerts for their 2010-2011 season. I continued my post for the following two seasons, writing more than sixty poems inspired by performances of internationally renown chamber music ensembles. If you'd like to read these poems, go to http://www.focm.org and click on ABOUT to access the Poet Laureate page.
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March 25, 2020 (Wednesday)
Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232
503-284-1726
www.broadwaybooks.net
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
A poignant portrayal of love and forgiveness: poetry readings by Margaret Chula and Shawn Aveningo Sanders.
I'll be reading from my new collection, "Shadow Man".
"In Shadow Man, Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957, the day her mother packed their five children—all under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years, Margaret comes to accept the differences between a mother who wants China cups with saucers and a father who’s content with a Budweiser. Through writing about these awkward, often heartbreaking, interactions with her estranged father, she discovers that there’s more than one truth and that each of us must find our own."
Shawn will be reading from "What She Was Wearing", the #metoo story that took over 30 years to reveal.
"Inspired by the countless number of women who are bravely opening up to share their truth, Shawn adds her voice to the fight against the oppressive, misogynic times we live in. It’s time to stop blaming the victim and to stop asking what she was wearing! For Shawn, writing through the pain and sharing these poems has proven to be cathartic and even epiphanic at times. It is her hope this work can help women of all ages face and cope with their own traumas, while letting them know they can indeed heal and go on to enjoy loving, trusting relationships."
April 18, 2020 (Saturday)
Lan Su Chinese Garden
239 NW Everett St.
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 228-8131
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Featured reader for the Peach Blossom Poetry Series. Admission is free with entrance to the Garden. If you need a free pass, contact me.
January 26, 2020 (Sunday)
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
2 Marina Boulevard
Landmark Building C, Suite 260
San Francisco, CA
(415) 345-7575
1:00 – 4:45 pm
San Francisco launch of One Leaf Detaches. Offering a one-hour haibun workshop for members of the Haiku Poets of Northern California.
December 15, 2019 (Sunday)
Ford Gallery
2502 SW 11th Avenue
Portland, OR 97202
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Poetry Launch and Art Show with Margaret Chula, John Sibley Williams, Abbey E. Murray
November 14, 2019 (Thursday)
Annie Bloom's Bookstore
7834 SW Capitol Highway
Portland, OR
503-246-0053
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Poetry reading with Margaret Chula, Melanie Green and Carolyn Martin.
October 17, 2019 (Thursday)
The Dalles Art Center and Gallery
220 East 4th Street
The Dalles, OR
541-296-4759
6:00 Free haiku workshop
7:00 Reading from my new collections One Leaf Detaches and Shadow Man.
August 29, 2019 (Thursday)
Cirque Press Readings
Central Lutheran Church
1820 NE 21st Avenue
Portland, OR
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Reading with Oregon poets Paulann Petersen, Kristen Berger, Leah Stenson and others.
April 2, 2019 (Tuesday)
Springfield Poetry Series
Emerald Art Center
500 Main Street
Springfield, OR
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Poetry reading with Joan Dobbie (Eugene) and Jared Smith (Colorado)
February 23, 2019 (Saturday)
Poetry Salon
Home of Ce Rosenow and Angie Thompson
Eugene OR
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Eugene launch of Daffodils at Twilight and a selection of tanka from Just This.
September 20, 2018 (Thursday)
Deerfield Valley Art Association
105 Main Street
Northfield, MA
deerfieldvalleyart.org
3:00 – 6:00
Maggie Chula poetry reading and art event to be announced.
This is an adjunct to the Pioneer Valley Regional High School Class of 1965 reunion, which will be held the following evening at Zeke's Bar and Grill in Bernardston, MA.
September 19, 2018 (Wednesday)
Brooks Memorial Library
224 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Maggie Chula (featured reader), Tim Mayo, and Jeff Friedman
July 19, 2018 (Thursday)
SoulFood CoffeeHouse and Fair Trade Emporium
15748 Redmond Way,
Redmond, WA
TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY READING
Maggie Chula and Terry Ann Carter
Hosted by Michael Dylan Welch
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Open mic to follow
http://soulfoodcoffeehouse.com/
June 22, 2018 (Friday)
Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
523 SE Morrison St
Portland, OR
Poetry Reading 7:30 – 9:00
Maggie Chula and Bill Siverly
Please join us to celebrate our new collections at this eclectic, cozy, and unique bookstore.
May 7, 2018 (Monday)
Free Range Poetry Reading
Northwest Library
2300 NW Thurman Street
Portland, OR
Reading 6:00 – 7:30 pm.
Featured reader with Pattie Palmer-Baker and Devon Balwit.
An open mic will precede featured readers.
Sign up for open mic at 5:45
Free and everyone is welcome.
April 7, 2018 (Saturday)
Peach Blossom Poetry Series
Lan Su Chinese Garden
239 NW Everett St.
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 228-8131
Reading from my new collection, Daffodils at Twilight, poems about coming of age in a small New England town in the ‘50s and 60s. Enjoy the spring blooms in this tranquil garden and relax in the Celestial Hall of Permeating Fragrance.
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Free with admission to the Garden. If you’d like a complimentary ticket, please contact me.
March 15, 2018 (Thursday)
First Draft Writers Series
Pendleton Center For the Arts
214 North Main Street
Pendleton, OR
(541) 278-9201
info@pendletonarts.org
Reading from Daffodils at Twilight, as well as selections from Just This and What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps. Open mic follows.
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Free admission
July 30, 2017
Powell’s Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR 97214
800-878-7323
I’ll be reading from my new collection, Daffodils at Twilight—poems about coming of age in a small New England town in the ‘50s and 60s. Lex Runciman, an Oregon Book Award winner, will join me, reading from his sixth book, Salt Moons: Poems 1981-2016.
Sunday, July 30, 2017
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Free
September 6, 2017
Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232
503-284-1726
Reading from my new free-verse poetry collection, Daffodils at Twilight, with Allan Peterson, poet and visual artist. Come by this popular, homey independent bookstore for an evening of poetry.
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Free
April 26, 2017
PERSONA POETRY: STEP OUT OF YOURSELF
Lan Su Chinese Garden
239 NW Everett St, Portland, OR 97209
(503) 228-8131
Persona is Latin for “mask.” A persona poem allows the writer to don a mask and assume the identity of the speaker. Writing in the voice and point of view of a person you’ve never met is both challenging and freeing. It allows you to use your imagination, offering you an opportunity to step out of your social, political and personal beliefs and enter the world of another person. Inspired by photographs and a variety of persona poems by other poets, you’ll create a character that will surprise and delight you.
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Free with admission to the Garden
April 29, 2017
A PANORAMIC VIEW
Astoria Public Library
450 10th St, Astoria, OR 971035
(503) 325-7323
A poetic journey to Kyoto temples, a Japanese tea ceremony, Emily Dickinson’s grave, a racetrack in Vermont, the high desert, and her childhood home. Join Maggie on a more interior journey as she reads persona poems in the voices of Japanese Americans in internment camps and poems composed while listening to chamber music concerts. She will also talk about her movement from thirty-five years of writing in the spare forms of haiku, tanka, and haibun to publishing her first collection of lyrical poetry.
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Free to the public