BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CalDiscovery//caldiscovery//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH DESCRIPTION:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscover y.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fro m CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. SOURCE:https://caldiscovery.com/corvallis-or/literary.ics X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-CALDESC:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscove ry.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fr om CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - corvallis-or (literary) BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Honors College Summer Read: Day 1 DTSTART:20260921T160000Z DTEND:20260922T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260826T003047Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53685817027469 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:All Honors College students have been asked to read Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. Students will then need to sign up for one discussion session\, taking place either on 9/21 or 9/22. Students should not sign up for a discussion that occurs during their college's FORTE blo ck\; FORTE blocks are a total of 3 hours\, and students are expected to at tend their full block. Students who still need to register for a discussio n group can do so at beav.es/HCSummerRead.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Sept. 21 is Yom Kippur. If you are a student who observes this holiday\, please sign up f or a discussion group on Tuesday\, Sept. 22.\n\nIf you have questions abou t getting your free ebook copy\, or about the discussion groups\, email ta ylor.maki@oregonstate.edu. LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T003047Z LOCATION:Learning Innovation Center (LINC)\, 3rd floor URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/honors-college-summer-read X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Honors College Summer Read: Day 2 DTSTART:20260922T160000Z DTEND:20260922T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260826T003047Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53685830470209 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:All Honors College students have been asked to read Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. Students will then need to sign up for one discussion session\, taking place either on 9/21 or 9/22. Students should not sign up for a discussion that occurs during their college's FORTE blo ck\; FORTE blocks are a total of 3 hours\, and students are expected to at tend their full block. Students who still need to register for a discussio n group can do so at beav.es/HCSummerRead.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Sept. 21 is Yom Kippur. If you are a student who observes this holiday\, please sign up f or a discussion group on Tuesday\, Sept. 22.\n\nIf you have questions abou t getting your free ebook copy\, or about the discussion groups\, email ta ylor.maki@oregonstate.edu. LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T003047Z LOCATION:Learning Innovation Center (LINC)\, 3rd floor URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/honors-college-summer-read-day-2- 4065 X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Author Event with Marina Richie: Feathered Forest DTSTART:20261010T003000Z DTEND:20261010T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260824T183200Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53774380670054 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Anc ient Trees\, the new book of award-winning nature writer Marina Richie.\n\ n \n\nBeginning with an ascent of a 200-foot-tall Douglas-fir with a bird biologist\, Richie leads us from her home in Central Oregon into the ancie nt forests of Cascadia\, a bioregion which rivals the Amazonian rainforest in significance for climate and biodiversity. Birds are guides to intrica te and imperiled communities thriving at every level\, from understory to midstory to overstory. They steer us to cool havens within multilayered\, centuries-old groves that are critical refugia in a time of climate crisis . Their songs and flights show us what we must protect for the future of t hreatened birds\, forests\, and humankind. A narrative of perception chang e\, memoir\, and kinship\, Feathered Forest is a soaring ode to birds and wild trees.\n\n \n\nRichie spoke and collaborated with many Oregon State U niversity-affiliated scientists and researchers for this book project\, in cluding those at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. At the event\, Matt Betts from the College of Forestry will introduce Richie and researcher N ina Ferrari will share a short presentation about her bird research that i nformed the project.\n\n \n\nRichie's previous books include Halcyon Journ ey\, winner of the 2024 John Burroughs Medal\, a National Outdoor Book Awa rd (gold) and a Foreword Indies Award (silver).\n\nImage LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T183200Z LOCATION:PRAx - Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts\, Toome y Lobby URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/author-event-with-marina-richie-f eathered-forest X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Champinefu Series: The Sacred Commute: Off / On the Rez DTSTART:20261016T020000Z DTEND:20261016T030000Z DTSTAMP:20260824T183200Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53774396536806 CATEGORIES:literary,music DESCRIPTION:Spring Creek Project Presents the Champinefu Series - The Sacr ed Commute: Off / On the Rez\n\n \n\nJoin host Joseph Dowd (Grand Ronde) a nd friends for a night of song sharing and storytelling. Contemporary folk songs about life as a Native American on and off the reservation will be interspersed with storytelling and poetry that convey the lived experience s of contemporary Native Americans in Western Oregon\, as well as those of their ancestors.\n\n \n\nJoseph Dowd is a descendant of the Santiam\, Tak elma\, and Tututni peoples\, and anyone else up and down I-5 in Western Or egon. From the Hudson and Dowd families of Grand Ronde\, he has been bless ed to have strong ears for the stories shared by his family\, community\, and life experiences\, all of which have inspired him to put words to pape r and song. Joseph is a 2026 Indigenous Place Keeping Fellow through the G rand Ronde Tribe's Art Program.\n\n \n\nProgramming for the annual Champin efu Series is curated by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Cultur al Resources Department with support from the Marys Peak Group of the Sier ra Club\, Spring Creek Project\, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library\, Corvallis Sustainability Coalition\, and OSU's School of Language\, Cultur e and Society. LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T183200Z LOCATION:PRAx - Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts\, Detri ck hall URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/the-champinefu-series-the-sacred- commute-off-on-the-rez X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Ends of the Earth and Back: Polar Science and Poetry DTSTART:20261030T003000Z DTEND:20261030T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260824T183200Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53774432071329 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Spring Creek Project Presents: The Ends of the Earth and Back: Polar Science and Poetry​ \n\n“Poetry and science are allies\, not op posites.” — Jane Hirshfield ​\n\n \n\nOSU is a hub for cutting-edge polar research. What does that research look like through a poet’s lens? For this unique program\, we invited poets from around the country to sub mit a creative response to OSU's polar research papers. With a unique call -and-response format\, polar scientists briefly introduce their research\, and selected poets share their creative responses to research at the ends of the Earth. We also invite you to visit Notes on the Cold: Images of th e Arctic and Antarctic\, an exhibition in the Stirek Gallery featuring con temporary artists\, writers and filmmakers exploring the unique conditions of the world’s polar regions.\n\n \n\nOpen Call for Submissions Closes August 26\, 2026\n\nExperience this reading as part of our fall theme Pola r Science\, Polar Artevents throughout the month of October. LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T183200Z LOCATION:PRax\, Toomey Lobby URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/the-ends-of-the-earth-and-back-po lar-science-and-poetry X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spring Creek Project Presents: Poetry Night: Ellen Waterston and J eff Fearnside DTSTART:20261204T013000Z DTEND:20261204T023000Z DTSTAMP:20260824T183200Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53774444122181 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Cozy up with us for a night of poetry as acclaimed writers Ell en Waterston and Jeff Fearnside share their latest collections. Completed while travelling the state during her first year as Oregon’s Poet Laurea te\, the poems in Waterston’s As Far as I Can Anthem enlist the people a nd places across Oregon to inform\, challenge and inspire readers in vital and unexpected ways. Fearnside’s most recent book\, Lake: Love Poems\, is focused on the concept of place\, specifically Central Asia\, where he lived for four years\, and Oregon\, his home for the past 13 years. The po ems are connected by the thread of his courtship with and marriage to the woman who has experienced these places with him\, his life partner Valenti na.​\n\n \n\nEllen Waterston is an award-winning author and columnist wh o has dedicated herself to writing and advocating for the literary arts in the high desert region of Oregon\, all the while continuing to write poet ry and nonfiction works that have evolved into essential reading about Ore gon and the West. She has published five poetry and four literary nonficti on titles\, including We Could Die Doing This and Walking the High Desert. In 2024\, Waterston was named to a two-year term as the 11th Poet Laureat e of Oregon and received both the Soapstone Bread and Roses Award and the Stewart H. Holbrook Award. Waterston is the founder of the Writing Ranch a nd the annual Waterston Desert Writing Prize.​\n\n \n\nJeff Fearnside is the author of three full-length books and two chapbooks of poetry and pro se\, including the essay collection Ships in the Desert\, which won a Fore word INDIES Book of the Year Award and the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publicat ion Book Award in Prose from the Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop. His story collection A Husband and Wife Are One Satanwon the Orison Chapbook Prize. LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T183200Z LOCATION:PRAx - Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts\, Ray T heater URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/spring-creek-project-presents-poe try-night-ellen-waterston-and-jeff-fearnside X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Earth Words: The Pacific Northwest’s Premier Environmental Writi ng Showcase DTSTART:20270422T020000Z DTEND:20270422T030000Z DTSTAMP:20260824T183200Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53774480953054 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Spring Creek Project Presents: Earth Words: The Pacific Northw est’s Premier Environmental Writing Showcase​\n\n \n\nIn these times o f cultural upheaval when the natural world is facing unprecedented pressur es and losses\, we need joyful celebrations to nurture community\, sustain activism and deepen our understanding of kinship and interconnectedness w ith all living beings. ​\n\nEarth Words\, an annual event in its third y ear\, will feature celebrated writers sharing stories that help us imagine new futures\, deepen our love for the world and resoundingly speak up for justice. Since its founding 24 years ago\, the Spring Creek Project has h eld fast to the belief that how we write about this precious and imperiled world has the power to change it. Join us as we fill the concert hall wit h good words for this world.​\n\nStay tuned for the 2027 lineup of reade rs\, which will be announced in late winter.​\n\n \n\nLightbox Happy Hou r​ at 6 p.m.\n\nDoors open at 6 p.m. for Lightbox Happy Hour in Toomey L obby\, which will include:​\n\nLive music​\n\nA book sale by local ind ependent bookstore Grass Roots Books\, with all titles from the featured w riters available​\n\nWine\, beer and snacks for sale​ LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T183200Z LOCATION:PRAx - Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts\, Detri ck Hall URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/earth-words-the-pacific-northwest s-premier-environmental-writing-showcase-5576 X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bookfest! DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270425 DTSTAMP:20260824T183200Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53774351784523 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Books take over PRAx! Learn about the world of BookTok and Boo kstagram and explore the phenomenon of banned books. Sip a coffee and curl up with a book — your own or one from our pop-up bookstore\, featuring book-themed merch. Try your hand at a flash fiction or poetry-writing work shop. Bring your family for story time. Discover whether the decline in re ading is real. View a classic bookstore film and browse an exhibit on book arts. To cap it off\, Merve Emre\, contributing writer at The New Yorker\ , will explore why reading matters now.​\n\n \n\nMerve Emre is a profess or at Wesleyan University and director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author of three books\, including The Pe rsonality Brokers\, which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times. LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T183200Z LOCATION:PRAx - Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts\, PRAx URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/bookfest X-SOURCE-NAME:Oregon State University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.oregonstate.edu/bend END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR