Events & Classes > Walking Portland's Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poetry Reading and Walk
Walking Portland's Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poetry Reading and Walk
Sharon Wood Wortman presents her newest book, Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems About Bridges Real and Imagined by 70 Poets, with Directions for Five Self-Guided Explorations, a guide book with step-by-step directions to discovering the secrets of Portland's big river bridges, and poems about bridges by poets from all over. Join us as some of Portland's finest read their work. The reading will be followed by an optional walk.
Made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Sunday, April 6, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
- Central Library, U.S. Bank Room
- 801 S.W. 10th Ave.
- 503.988.5123
- Optional walk to the Morrison Bridge (weather permitting)
Saturday, April 19, 2–3 p.m.
- Northwest Library
- 2300 N.W. Thurman St.
- 503.988.5560
- Optional walk to the Balch Gulch Bridge (weather permitting)
Saturday, May 17, 1–2 p.m.
- Sellwood-Moreland Library
- 7860 S.E. 13th Ave.
- 503.988.5398
- Optional walk to the Sellwood Bridge (weather permitting)
Saturday, June 28, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
- St. Johns Library
- 7510 N. Charleston Ave.
- 503.988.5397
- Optional walk to the St. Johns Bridge (weather permitting)
Space at programs is limited. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.