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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. Her poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Tikkun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, among others. Click here for a full bio. 2010 READINGS & EVENTS June 8 Willa will be reading with other Drash: Northwest Mosaic contributors, Tuesday, 7PM, at Broadway Books with Diana Brement, Jeanne Krinsley, Devan Schwartz, Scot Siegel, Jack Turteltaub, and Sharon Lask Munson. May 9, Mother's Day Willa will read with poet Jennifer Richter Second Sundays Series, 3-5 PM 349 N. Third Ave., Stayton, OR April 27 Willa is honored to be reading with poets Paulann Petersen, John Morrison, Judith Arcana, Sharon Wood Wortman, Paul Merchant, Carlos Reyes, Sean McGillis, Michael Achterman, Wendy Noonan, Eric Tonsfeldt, Barbara LaMorticella…and others to celebrate the anthology of Sierra Leonean Poets, Kalashnilov in the Sun edited by Kirsten Rian, 7PM, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland. April 20 Willa will read from the anthology I Go To The Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets In Defense of Global Human Rights with writers and human rights workers: Francis Payne Adler, Patricia Bollin, Edith Mirante, John Paisley, Sandy Polishuk and Kirsten Rian, Tues., 7PM, Broadway Books,1714 NE Broadway, Portland. April 16-18 Willa will present at the GET LIT! Festival, Spokane, WA For more details go to their website. March 26 Willa will sign copies of Storytelling in Cambodia, Public Library Association Conference, Friday, 9:45AM - 10:30AM, Oregon Convention Center, Portland. January 30 Willa and Robin Bagai will host an event to celebrate the life and work of William Stafford. Featuring Lois Baker, Sage Cohen, David Rutiezer, Shawn Sorensen, and FWS Board Member Paulann Petersen. Contact: lookingglassbook at qwest.net or Willa Schneberg, Looking Glass Book Store, 7983 SE 13th Ave., Portland (new Sellwood location), 4-6pm. 2009 READINGS & EVENTS November 3 This is the 10th year that Willa has organized and participated in a reading of Oregon Jewish Writers, sponsored by the Oregon Jewish Museum. She will be reading with Howard Aaron, Dori Appel, Jan Baross and Scot Siegel, Tues. Nov. 3, 7:30 PM, University of Oregon, 70 Couch Street, Room 142, Portland, OR. September 22 Willa read with Paul Merchant, Sandy Polishuk, and Frances Payne Adler, co-editor of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, at the book launch, Broadway Books, 1714 NE, Broadway, Portland. To learn more about this groundbreaking anthology go to: http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid2132.htm. September 9 Willa will read in Vancouver, WA, Barnes & Noble's Second Weds. Event, 7:30 PM. There will be a 7PM Open Mic. 7700 NE 4th Plain Blvd. July 22 Willa will read with Floyd Skloot in Verse in Person. At 7 PM, NW Branch of the Multnomah County Library, 23rd & NW Thurman, Portland. July 2 Opening at the 114 Gallery, 1100 NW Glisan St, Portland this July. Stayed tuned for more! Art samples in the News column.	Latest Updates Willa will have images of two sculptures in the Summer 2010 issue of Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. VAJRA – 10 1/2" X 5" X 4 1/2" Willa has been inspired by the varja (Sanskrit) or dorje (Tibetan) that signify the diamond and thunderbolt – symbols of the indestructible nature of truth. Dorje is a small scepter held in the right hand by Tibetan lamas during religious ceremonies. A few years ago I was able to witness the Dalai Lama employing the dorje during a ceremony in Dharamsala, India. WHISK – 6 1/4" x 3 1/2" 9 1/2" The impetus for this sculpture is the whisk used in the Japanese tea ceremony July 2 - August 1 Willa's show came down at the beginning of August (09). Here are some images of the Opening at the 114 Gallery, in Portland, an exhibition of Ceramic Sculpture: Objects of the Sacred & Profane. Art samples below (click to expand): "Hill of Crosses" by Edis Jurcys Willa is the English language editor for Hill of Crosses, Gardens of Life, images of Lithuanian-American photographer Edis Jurcys (cover below), who reveals through his intimate lens, the preservation of the sacred and the constantly renewing spirituality of one of the most unique places in Lithuania – the Hill of Crosses.
Latest Release Storytelling in Cambodia Poems by Willa Schneberg Introduction by U. Sam Oeur and Ken McCullough Click here for ordering information. 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
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