The Poetry Box

Margaret Chula

Maggie & Shawn @ Broadway Books – POSTPONED

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Event Poster: Shawn & Maggie at Broadway Books

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this event has been postponed. Stay tuned for the rescheduled date this summer. 

Broadway Books to host Margaret Chula and Shawn Aveningo Sanders

Wed, Mar 25, 2020
at 7:00 pm

Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232

Cover-Front-Shadow Man-webA poignant portrayal of love and forgiveness.

In Shadow Man, Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957, the day her mother packed their five children—all under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years, Margaret comes to accept the differences between a mother who wants China cups with saucers and a father who’s content with a Budweiser. Through writing about these awkward, often heartbreaking, interactions with her estranged father, she discovers that there’s more than one truth and that each of us must find our own.

 

Cover-WhatSheWasWearingThe #metoo story that took over 30 years to reveal.

Inspired by the countless number of women who are bravely opening up to share their truth, Shawn adds her voice to the fight against the oppressive, misogynic times we live in. It’s time to stop blaming the victim and to stop asking what she was wearing!  For Shawn, writing through the pain and sharing these poems has proven to be cathartic and even epiphanic at times. It is her hope this work can help women of all ages face and cope with their own traumas, while letting them know they can indeed heal and go on to enjoy loving, trusting relationships.

Melanie, Maggie and Martin @ Annie Bloom’s

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Melanie, Maggie & Carolyn

Annie Bloom’s welcomes local poets Margaret Chula, Melanie Green, and Carolyn Martin

Thurs, Nov 14, 2019
at 7:00 pm
Annie Bloom’s

7834 SW Capitol Hwy
(Multnomah Village)
Portland, OR 97219
503-246-0053

 

The poems in Melanie Green‘s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm (The Poetry Box) are an invitation to slow down, to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Green’s poetry explores the connection with the numinous—as well as speaking to the difficulty of living with a chronic illness.  https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/long-wide-stretch-of-calm

In Shadow Man (The Poetry Box), Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957, the day her mother packed their five children—all under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years, Margaret comes to accept the differences between a mother who wants China cups with saucers and a father who’s content with a Budweiser. Through writing about these awkward, often heartbreaking, interactions with her estranged father, she discovers that there’s more than one truth and that each of us must find our own.  https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/shadow-man

From the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin’s fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades (Unsolicited Press), takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships. A lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing. Carolyn will also be sharing poems from her 2nd poetry collection, The Way A Woman Knows (The Poetry Box). https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/the-way-a-woman-knows

 

Free to Attend. All are welcome to share the love of poetry by these phenomenal women.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.