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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

This summer, DIVA's Behind the Lens will explore the uses of movie enchantment in the screening and discussion of fantasy and science fiction films.   Host Tom Blank has selected films that expanded his personal understanding of the potential of the screen to show the impossible, most of which were produced prior to the technical development of computer imagery. All films will be shown at the Baker Center, Tuesday evenings at 7 PM.  A discussion will follow each screening. 

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Poetry Series with Allison Cobb and Linda Russo


DIVA’s A New Poetry Series features authors Allison Cobb and Linda Russo in a presentation of their work at 7:30 PM on Friday, May 18th at DIVA 285 W. Broadway.  Donation welcome.

Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press, 2004) about her hometown of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Green-Wood (Factory School, 2010) about a famous nineteenth-century cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Times called Green-Wood “a gorgeous, subtle, idiosyncratic gem.” She was a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and received a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission. She works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Linda Russo is the author of Mirth (Chax Press) and the recipient of fellowships at the Centrum Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Millay Colony. Her essay "Precious, Rare, and Mundane" is the preface to Joanne Kyger's About Now: Collected Poems (National Poetry Foundation). She currently lives in the Columbia River Watershed, tending her community garden vegetable patch and teaching at Washington State University.