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At the Planet Earth Poetry Series, Victoria, B.C. READINGS AND EVENTS 2008 July 16 At 7PM, Weds. at Borders, downtown Portland, 708 SW Third, Willa will read with two other poets. May 11 At 3PM, Sunday at the Deschutes Public Library, Bend, Willa will join Lois Rosen, Cassandra Sagan, and Herman Asarnow for an afternoon of readings by Oregon Jewish writers. April 19 At 3PM. Saturday at the Multnomah County Library's Northwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St, Willa will join Sharon Wood Wortman and other Walking Bridge's poets in reading from the new anthology. A walk to the Balch Gulch Bridge follows the reading. February 2/3 At 7:00PM, Willa will read at Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, with Margarita Donnelly, the director of Calyx. On Sunday, February 3, 2:00PM, Willa and Margarita will at Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, Washington. January 26 Willa will host Event to Honor William Stafford, Saturday, January 26, 2008, 3-5 pm, Looking Glass Book Store, 7983 SE 13th Ave., Portland (new Sellwood location). Featuring Patricia Bollin, Cindy Williams Gutierrez, Mike Langtry, Paul Merchant, Dianne Stepp, and Friends of William Stafford Board Member Paulann Petersen 2007 November 9 - 11 Wordstock Festival Portland, Oregon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A, A1, and B, 9AM – 5PM Willa will be reading at NW Writers Stage, Nov 11 at 2:30PM and offering a workshop - "Creating Poems Through the Artist's Lens" on Sunday, November 11, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM. November 1 Oregon Jewish Writers' Reading, with poets Frances Payne Adler, David Axelrod , Pam Crow, Greg Chaimov; Willa will read Sarah Lantz's poems as well as her own. At the Oregon Jewish Museum, 310 NW Davis, Portland, 7:30PM, October 9 POETRY AT NOON series on the theme of "Magic & Magicians," Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October 1 UBC Robson Square Bookstore Vancouver, B.C. 7:00 PM September 30 ArtSpring Salt Spring Island, B.C. 7:30PM September 28 Planet Earth Poetry Series, Black Stilt Coffee House, Victoria, B.C. 7:30 PM	Willa Schneberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her second collection In The Margins Of The World, Plain View Press, was awarded the 2002 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She has won two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships in poetry, and received a grant in poetry from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Willa Schneberg Her poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Tikkun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, among others. She has also been included in a number of anthologies, and in a textbook entitled: Bearing Witness: Teaching About The Holocaust, where her poetry is discussed along with the that of Carolyn Forche and Sharon Olds. She has been a poetry fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. Willa is also a ceramic sculptor, photographer, and a clinical social worker in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She has facilitated visual and poetry workshops with the chronically mentally ill, the disabled, the aged and with public school students through artists-in-the-schools programs in Massachusetts, Oregon, Tennessee and American military bases in the Far East. From 1992-1993, she worked with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, first as a District Electoral Supervisor setting up registration sites in Phnom Penh, and then as a Medical Liaison Officer, providing counseling and arranging repatriation for UN volunteers from member countries. She judged the 15th Annual Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition for Poets who write in English sponsored by "Voices Israel," and in Dec. of 2004 spent a week in Israel, offering talks, readings, poetry workshops and presiding over the Awards Ceremony. Willa was a guest poet at the Tucson Poetry Festival, Wordstock, the Library of Congress, and will be a guest poet at the Montana Festival of the Book. She has read at KGB, and the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, and Black Oak Books in Berkeley. Her photographs can be found in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Bombay Gin. One woman exhibitions of her ceramic sculpture were on view at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center's Gallery and the Oregon Jewish Museum, both in Portland, and Washington State University, Vancouver. Read two poems from Storytelling in Cambodia by clicking here. Contact Willa at info at threewayconversation.org.	NEWS Friday evening, April 26, will mark the official opening of the Oregon Poetry Collection at the Oregon Poetry Collection. For more info. about the opening and the Oregon State Poetry's Association's Spring Conference visit: www.oregonpoets.org. Willa's work is included with hundreds of other Oregon poets. Wednesday evening, April 30, the Stayton Public Library will mark the end of National Poetry Month with a celebration of poetry--it will celebrate the works by contemporary Oregon poets it has acquired through books and chapbooks donations by poets featured in the Second Sundays Series of Poetry Readings. Willa's books are included. Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems about Bridges Real and Imagined by 70 Poets, with Directions for Five Self-Guided Explorations, Urban Adventures Press, 2007, edited by Sharon Wood Wortman and Kirsten Rian is now available for purchase. "Piercing One Ear," a poem of Willa's is included. Storytelling in Cambodia Poems by Willa Schneberg Introduction by U. Sam Oeur and Ken McCullough Ordering Information: CLICK HERE TO ORDER! This moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems journeys from Cambodia’s mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. A beautiful and heart-wrenching collection. “Willa Schneberg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey—from the Ramayana and Angkor Wat to the terrors of Pol Pot—encountering along the way Buddhist pacifism and the divine warrior, André Malraux and Tricky Dick and Kent State, among a host of characters. Her Cambodia is a world and she’s gotten deep within its skin. This is rich rewarding poetry, a compassionate, visionary response to a very real world.” Sam Hamill “In Storytelling in Cambodia Willa Schneberg writes a searing account of one of the darkest moments in modern history. Schneberg’s haunting verse testimony, her portraits of those who dragged a once peaceful country into the nightmare of genocide, her passionate homage to an ancient civilization now irrevocably lost move the reader even as they horrify.” Carolyn Forché STORYTELLING IN CAMBODIA CALYX BOOKS 2006 Poetry/Asian Studies/Jewish Studies ISBN 0-934971-90-0 $13.95 paper, 6” x 9”, 124 pages CALYX BOOKS, PO Box B, Corvallis, OR 97339 Call 541-753-9384 FAX 541-753-0515 email: calyx at proaxis.com
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