“Born in Bellingham, Washington in 1954, David Mason was the Poet Laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014. He received a BA from Colorado College and an PhD from the University of Rochester in New York. His first poetry collection, The Buried Houses, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and his second, The Country I Remember, won the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.”

“Truth Be Told Brings Storytellers Together to Raise Funds for Arts Center.

Come hear stories about family on Friday, November 21st at 7 pm for a 21 & up event support a much needed auditorium renovation at the Multnomah Arts Center.”

“My conversation with poet Annie Lighthart, debut author of the book Iron String published in 2013 by Airlie Press, took place at TaborSpace in Southeast Portland. It seemed predetermined by the poems that Lighthart writes—lyrical, imaginative, tender, metaphysical writings that begin in the things of this world—that our conversation would touch down on topics like the imagination and the soul. How apropos, then, to meet at TaborSpace, founded five years back by the clergy of Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church and community leaders as a donation- and volunteer-based coffeehouse and meeting space.”

“How should one dress to go to a genizah burial? Can one wear yellow or a flower in one’s hair? It’s a sacred ritual, but not quite a solemn affair to bury no-longer serviceable papers with God’s name on them. It’s not like someone has died and yet, we are opening up a grave.”