Grass Roots Books and Music
227 SW 2nd Street

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Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd. St, Corvallis

 

What Color Makes Your Heart Sing? is a beautifully illustrated children’s book that is appropriate for children and adults alike. It speaks to the way that each of us resonates with one or more different color vibrations and frequencies; the way color impacts our hearts, lifts our moods, and expands our consciousness.  More and more people identify with the colors that they love to surround themselves with, to wear, and to share with others. Hopefully this little book will open your heart to the colors that make your heart sing as well!
 
The event is free and open to the public. Grass Roots will have books available for purchase.

The Majestic Theatre
115 SW 2nd St, Corvallis

Doug is an Associate Research Professor of Anthropology at Portland State University and author of “Keeping It Living – Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the North Coast of the Pacific North West” and “Pacific Northwest Foraging”, a popular guidebook to edible plants of the Northwest, which landed on the New York Times Best Sellers List.
David is Kalapuya and is the Cultural Resources Manager of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, as well as its Tribal History Officer. His duties include oversight of the development and operations of the popular Chachalu Museum at the Grand Ronde.
Doors open at 6:00pm

The event is free and open to the public. Grass Roots will have books available for purchase. 
 

Valley Library Rotunda
201 SW Waldo Pl, Corvallis

Peter Nathaniel Malae is the author of three novels: Son of Amity (Oregon State University Press, 2018), Our Frail Blood (Grove/Atlantic, 2013), and What We Are(Grove/Atlantic, 2010), which won the San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Henry Jackson Award, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers finalist. His story collection, Teach the Free Man (Swallow/Ohio University Press, 2007), was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award and was named a notable book by the Story Prize. His play, The Question (2015), won the Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for Drama. He is a former John Steinbeck, MacDowell Colony, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellow.
 

Clemens Starck is a Princeton drop-out, a former merchant seaman and a reporter on Wall Street. He has worked mostly as a union carpenter and construction foreman on the West Coast—San Francisco, British Columbia, and Oregon. His carpentry work also includes a long stint as a maintenance carpenter at OSU. His first book of poems, Journeyman’s Wages, received the 1996 Oregon Book Award as well as the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. His next two books—Studying Russian on Company Time (1999) and China Basin(2002)—were also finalists for the Oregon Book Award. Additional books of poems include: Traveling Incognito (2004), Rembrandt, Chainsaw (2011), and Old Dogs, New Tricks (2016). Starck has also produced two audio CDs of himself reading his poems against a musical background: Looking for Parts (2008) and Getting It Straight (2013). November 2018 is the publication date for his newest volume, Cathedrals & Parking Lots: Collected Poems. It contains all the poems from his previous six books plus a few new poems. A widower, he has three grown children and lives in a 19th century farmhouse he has rebuilt on forty-some acres in the country outside of Dallas, Oregon, in the mid-Willamette Valley.

The event is free and open to the public. Grass Roots will have books available for purchase. 

Black Box Theater, Withycombe Hall at OSU
2901 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Patient Zero and A Larger Country, winner of the APR/Honickman Prize and runner-up for the PEN Osterweil Award. He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu and the opera Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance. With Mari L’Esperance, he co-edited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He is at work on a memoir about fathers. In 2020 he will be a Civitella Fellow in Italy. He teaches at Drew University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

This second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomas Q. Morin explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. Patient Zero is filled with voices--of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force behind every living thing. This poignant, sometimes comic, meditation examines the joys and sorrows of loving another person in rich, microscopic detail.

The event is free and open to the public. Grass Roots will have books available for purchase.