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Start: 9:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Presented by SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & MINISTRY. One of 2009's highlights was Seattle University's initial Search for Meaning book festival, a free day-long festival of writers working across religious traditions and perspectives that was attended by an enthusiastic gathering of people from all over the Seattle area. Now, for year two, Search for Meaning again features writers from different religious and spiritual backgrounds discussing their work, from formal theology, poetry, fiction, nonfiction essays, memoir, translation, and other genres. This year's keynote speakers are Gustav Niebuhr, author of Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America (Viking) and Kathleen Norris, author of many books, including The Cloister Walk, and her newest, Acedia and Me (Riverhead). Presenters include children's book author Sheila Bender, Robert Clark, Ann Finger, Lesley Hazleton, Kirby Larsen, Nick O'Connell, Brenda Peterson, poet/translator Red Pine (aka Bill Porter), and many others. Elliott Bay will be there as booksellers along with the Seattle University Bookstore, offering books both by the authors on hand, and on many of the topics at hand. Search for Meaning is a free event, but reservations are encourages. For more information/reservations, please see www.seattleu.edu or call (206) 296-5330. Piggott Auditorium is located nearest to Seattle University's 12th Avenue and Marion Street entrance.
Start: 2:00 pm
The murders of nearly three dozen Chinese gold miners in a massacre in Wallowa County, Oregon in 1887 was a long-buried story, a (now-retired) reporter for The Oregonian, began writing about it in 1995. "In lives lost, the Hells Canyon massacre was the worst crime committed by whites against the approximately 300,000 Chinese who immigrated to the United States in the second half of the 19th century," he writes, adding that despite apparent knowledge of the perpetrators, only a few were ever brought to trial. All of those were acquitted, and the trial paperwork "mislaid" for decades. His book, Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon (Oregon State University Press), is the product of many years of research. The Oregonian cited Massacred for Gold as one of the top ten books by Northwest authors in 2009.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with COPPER CANYON PRESS. A poet who got to Seattle by way of a Kansas upbringing, and then years in southern California and New Orleans, Ed Skoog is both here and still on the move. He is currently based in Seattle and Washington, D.C., where he is a writer-in-residence at George Washington University. Wherever he has been, or is, Ed Skoog is the author of Mister Skylight (Copper Canyon Press), a lovely debut book-length collection of poems. "Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away. In it, he creates dense narratives, sees patterns, sees dissimilitudes, knows how to fishtail with images and turn with ease, knows how to braid pop culture into small personal melancholies and into larger generosities." – The Stranger.
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