Spare Room and the Reed College Alumni Association present

PHILIP WHALEN: A CELEBRATION

Sunday October 20, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Reed College Chapel, Portland, Oregon

(Reception following, in Faculty Lounge) Free admission; all ages welcome

Inspired poet, Zen abbot, and Beat Generation Reedie, Portland native Philip Whalen passed away this June in San Francisco. On what would have been his 79th birthday, local writers, old friends, and Reed College

students and faculty will join in celebrating his life and work. Reminiscences and readings of Whalen's poems will be accompanied by excerpts from documentary films about the poet, produced by the American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University.

Readers and speakers will include Moshe Lenske, Lois Baker, David Biespiel, Dan Raphael, Alice Moss, Rosemary Lapham Berleman, Carol Baker, Kathleen Worley, Gabriella Ekman, Chris Piuma, Laura Feldman, David Abel, Alicia Cohen, Greta Marchesi, Mark Owens, Ashley Edwards, Krista Hanson, and Anjelina Keating.

Michael Rothenberg

walterblue@bigbridge.org

Big Bridge