Friday, February 2, 7 PM: Literary Soiree, featuring Dante Zuniga-West, Jorah LaFleur, Rick Levin and Patrick Newson, with Scott Landfield Opening…Details Coming! Donations at the door; Authors books for sale.

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Thank you, Dante, for coordinating this Event.

A collection of some of Eugene’s most exciting writers and poets, reading right after a raging ice storm! You are officially invited to come listen and partake in the works of wordsmiths who spent way too much time alone in the darkness. Oh, what tales will be told...

• FRIDAY FEB 2nd, 7 - 9 pm
• Tsunami Books (2585 Willamette St)
• Donation$ at the door

FEATURING:

DANTE ZUNIGA-WEST
Dante Zúñiga-West is a storyteller who lives in the coastal mountain range of Oregon. He is author of the novel Rumble Young Man Rumble (2014, Zharmae Press). His writing is frequently published in alternative newspapers, lifestyle magazines and adventure journals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Cal Arts, and a BA from The Evergreen State College He prefers the company of German Shepherds and his family does not believe in surrender.

JORAH LAFLEUR
Jorah LaFleur is a writer/performer who enjoys wearing many different hats. She finds herself on stage as a spoken word poet, event emcee, actor, and interviewer. Offstage, she works with youth as a teaching artist. Jorah is currently serving as the lead Writer in Residence at the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Wordcrafters in Eugene. For over a decade (2006 to 2019), she ran the Eugene Poetry Slam, which gifted her with a wealth of stage hosting experience, and a front row seat to the recitation of thousands of original poems. Jorah has been writing and performing for 25 years. Her favorite color is zebra.

RICK LEVIN
Rick Levin grew up in a small rural town on the Olympic Peninsula among an extended family of Croatian immigrants who fished and logged for a living, drank Rainier out of cans and drove Ford pickups that were bashed in from sideswiping trees. His jobs have included running skiff on a purse-seiner, pumping gas, shoveling shit, picking gypsum in Omak and butchering salmon in Dutch Harbor. His favorite smell is turpentine, and he thinks farting is hilarious.

PATRICK NEWSON
Patrick Newson used to sweat wine by day and bleed ink by night, but he's grown up a little and eats more vegetables now. He still ferments juice into booze, but can legally make it available to you, rather than hustling it out of the trunk of a car alongside books of poetry. Otherwise he's a farmer, organizer, and teaches writing at St. Mary's College of California. His book "An Object In Motion" is available through Black Lawrence Press.

WITH A VERY SPECIAL OPENING BY TSUNAMI'S OWN:

SCOTT LANDFIELD
Scott Landfield has been a worker and owner of Tsunami Books for twenty-seven years. His parents each owned bookstores in the Midwest at times in their lives between newspaper work. Scott came to Oregon in 1978 to plant trees. Over a twenty-year career he planted over 2 million trees, while taking the summers off to be with his daughter. At present he works too many hours at the bookstore to finish any of the books he has spent his adult life writing.

Dante Zuniga-West

Jorah LaFleur

Rick Levin

Patrick Newson

Scott Landfield