BOOK NOTES.Byline: The Register-Guard Eugene poet's work to be featured on NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. program Eugene poet Ingrid Wendt will be featured twice this month on Garrison Keillor's daily National Public Radio spot, ``The Writer's Almanac almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. .'' On Wednesday, the "Prairie Home Companion" host will read ``Starting From Scratch'' from Wendt's first book of poetry, "Moving the House." And on Feb. 27, he will read "Prego" from her newest book, ``Surgeonfish surgeonfish or tang Any of about 75 species (family Acanthuridae) of thin, deep-bodied, tropical marine fishes that are small-scaled, with a single dorsal fin and one or more distinctive, sharp spines on either side of the tail base. .'' ``The Writer's Almanac'' airs weekdays at 8:15 a.m. on KRVM 1280-AM and at 10 a.m. on KOAC 550-AM. Also, Wendt will join Bandon poet Candice Favilla in a reading at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette St., at 4 p.m. Feb. 26. Two poets featured at library reading Adrian Matejka and Stacey Lynn Brown will read their poems Tuesday as part of the Eugene Public Library Windfall Reading Series. The free event is at 7 p.m. at the downtown library, 100 W. 10th Ave. Matejka's first collection of poems, ``The Devil's Garden For other uses, see devil's garden. Devil's Garden is located in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah and is a series of Rock fins that have broken out of the earth due to erosion and produce many spectacular views. ,'' won the 2002 New York/New England Award from Alice James Books. Brown, from Atlanta, wrote poems about living in - and away from - the South in a book-length manuscript, "Song of The Knock-Kneed Grit." Author to speak at Japanese-American event Author Bob Kono will be among speakers Tuesday at Lane Community College's Japanese-American Remembrance Day. The event, sponsored by the college's Reading Together Project, will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 226 of LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. Building 19. Awards Judith Berg - The Eugene writer is a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award winner for her 2005 natural history, "The Otter Spirit." Events SATURDAY "Skidoo skidoo Noun pl -doos Canad same as snowmobile [Ski-Doo, originally a trademark] " - Tsunami Books screens the classic Groucho Marx film. 7 p.m., 2585 Willamette St. Donations suggested. |
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