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Penelope Scambly Schott

The Poetry Box LIVE (Apr 10, 2021)

February 27, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – April Edition

April 10, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

 

Enjoy the video from the show:

 

April Featured Poets:

  • Penelope Scambly Schott (Oregon), author of SOPHIA AND MISTER WALTER WHITMAN
  • Sally Naylor (Florida), author of SYNAPSE FLIES INTO STARTLE
  • David Belmont (New York), author of WORLD GONE ZOOM

 

ABOUT THE POETS 

Penelope with Sophia

CoverFront-SophiaWhitman

Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry and author of a novel and several books of poetry, including her 2018 prizewinning chapbook November Quilt and most recently On Dufur Hill about a small wheat-growing town in central Oregon.

Sophia Schott Sweetdog is a four-year-old white goldendoodle, the niece of Lily Schott Sweetdog who co-wrote Lily and Rumi: A Lovestory.

Mister Walter Whitman is a greatly admired nineteenth-century American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.

Order Penelope’s book HERE


CoverFront Synapse Flies into Startle

Author(Sally)photo-web

A three-legged stool, Sally Naylor is poet, therapist & teacher, Sally, studied with Campbell McGrath in the FIU MFA program; she thrived in classes with Maxine Kumin, Gerald Stern, Ilya Kaminsky & Tony Hoagland.  Sally is associate editor of SOFLOPOJO, teaches community workshops for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, writes memoir as well as text and workbooks for neophytes & now offers Zoomshops for emerging poets.

Below is a cento from the manuscript by way of a concise introduction:

Bold, unrepentant, ready: a kind of ginger, myth buster & koan mistress,
rogue, free & holy skeptic, all snake hips & hiss, hyperbole’s own gadfly,
one quirky mechanic tuning the orgasmic     how her hymns buzz.

For more information about her classes visit her website at: www.writer’scatapult.com

Order Sally’s book HERE


Front Cover of World Gone Zoom

David Belmont - unmasked

David Belmont is a mixed media artist and community organizer living in New York City. He writes memoir, short fiction and poetry, as well as instrumental music. His work has appeared in The Poeming Pigeon, Wildflower Muse and FishFood Magazine. He is currently co-music director of the Castillo Theatre. He has been a professional musician for 50 years. His publicly available recorded output since 1999 can be found on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.  <https://davidbelmontwriter.wordpress.com>

Order David’s book HERE


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: David Belmont, Penelope Scambly Schott, Poetry Book Launch, Reading, Sally Naylor

November Quilt Book Launch

January 4, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

 

event poster for Penelope's book luanch

Sunday, Jan 13 @ 4:00 pm

BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION
Prizewinning Chapbook – November Quilt
by Penelope Scambly Schott

at

Like Nobody’s Business
904 NW 23rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97210

Like Nobody’s Business and The Poetry Box present a poetry reading for Penelope Scambly Schott’s new chapbook, November Quilt, which won 2nd place in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize-2018. We invite everyone to join in this celebration and enjoy an afternoon enjoying one of Portland’s favorite poets.

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


Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: November Quilt, Penelope Scambly Schott, Poetry Book Launch, Reading

Penelope at Powell’s – December 2nd

November 27, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

 

Author: Penelope Scambly Schott with dog

Book Cover (Front) of November Quilt

 

Sunday, Dec 2 @ 2:00 pm

featuring Penelope Scambly Schott, Barbara Drake & Bill Siverly

at

Powell’s City of Books
1005 W Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97209 

Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry.

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


Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: November Quilt, Penelope Scambly Schott, Poetry Book Launch, Powell's Books, Reading

Prizewinning “November Quilt” – Pre-order Now!

September 21, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

Book Cover (Front) of November Quilt
Second Prize, 2018

November Quilt

by Penelope Scambly Schott

Tentative Release Date: Nov 10, 2018

Reading November Quilt, by acclaimed author and poet, Penelope Scambly Schott, is akin to making a new friend. Brew a cup of tea and curl up in your favorite reading chair as you’re invited to share life experiences, aphorisms, confessions and curious ponderings in this collection of 30 poems (one for each day of the month).

 

For complete details and ordering information click here.

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Books, Coming Soon Tagged With: Chapbooks, New Book Release, Penelope Scambly Schott, Prizewinning

Poem of the Day (04-08-2018)

April 8, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Poetry Box is sharing a Poem-of-the-Day, selected from various anthologies and individual poet collections that we have published over the years.

National Poetry Month, 2018 - Poem of the Day at The Poetry Box

Please enjoy today’s selection: “Before They Reheat the Rod” by Penelope Scambly Schott, which appears in Of Course, I’m a Feminist!

Before They Reheat the Rod

In the ancient city, they heated iron rods
and blinded all the daughters.

Then they told the daughters Every man
is brave and beautiful.

In that city, they blessed the girls’ hands
and set them to spin in the dark.

Behind bronze gates, the daughters sang
the hymns almost as instructed,

but they sang in a language understood
only by birds of prey.

Listen. The wings of the blind daughters
summoned a wild sirocco wind

so that sand dunes buried the ancient city.
What endures now is the song.

Do you know it?
Whisper the words in your daughter’s ear.


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Filed Under: National Poetry Month, Poem of the Day 2018 Tagged With: Feminism, National Poetry Month, Penelope Scambly Schott, poem-of-the-day

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