BOOK NOTES.Byline: The Register-Guard Library reading will feature essayist, poet Two Portland writers, Brian Doyle
Brian J. Doyle (born April 7, 1950) was the deputy press secretary for the United States Department of Homeland Security. and Willa Schneberg, will be featured in the Windfall Reading Series meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th Ave. Brian Doyle is the author of "Credo Credo A Latin word which means "a set of fundamental beliefs or a guiding principle.” For a company, a credo is like a mission statement. Notes: For example, Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, established the "Three Basic Beliefs” as his company's credo. ," a book of essays about believing in many things, "Saints Passionate and Peculiar," a collection of "excitable excitable /ex·ci·ta·ble/ (ek-sit´ah-b'l) irritable (1). ex·cit·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of reacting to a stimulus. Used of a tissue, cell, or cell membrane. 2. , headlong head·long adv. 1. With the head leading; headfirst: The runner slid headlong into third base. 2. In an impetuous manner; rashly. 3. At breakneck speed or with uncontrolled force. essays" for teen-agers about saints and "Two Voices," a collection of essays written with his father, Jim Doyle
Doyle received The American Scholar's Best Essay Award in 2000 for a piece on Plutarch, and his riotous parody-critique of "Ggfddfg," a poem that his 3-year-old son hammered out on the typewriter, has appeared with the poem on the website Poetry Daily. Willa Schneberg has received two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships in poetry and a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant in poetry. She has been a fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell and the Tyrone Guthrie Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 - 15 May 1971) was a Tony Award-winning Anglo-Irish theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, at his family's home, Center in Ireland. Her peoms have appeared in many journals and anthologies. Her second book of poetry, "In The Margins of the World," won the Oregon Book Award for poetry in 2002. For information, call 682-5450. Readings & Signings TUESDAY L.J. Sellers - Reads "Beyond Conception," 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 1163 Valley River Drive. Free. (687-0356) THURSDAY Dorothy Drummond - Reads from and discusses her book "Holy Land, Whose Land? Modern Dilemma, Ancient Roots," 7 p.m., Borders, 5 Oakway Center. Free. (345-6072) Lectures THURSDAY Joseph Arpaia - Discussion of self-care and stress reduction by the author of "Tibetan Wisdom for Western Life," 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble. Free. (687-0356) Awards & Grants Eve Powers - Eugene writer Powers has been awarded first prize in the short story category for "The Last Book" in the National League of American Pen Women's annual literary competition. Out of town SATURDAY Nye Beach Writers' Series - Utah's Poet Laureate poet laureate (lô`rēĭt), title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. David Lee David Lee may refer to:
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