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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. 2012 READINGS & EVENTS January 22 Willa and Robin Bagai will host an event to celebrate the life and work of William Stafford. Featuring Ron Bloodworth, A. Molotkov, Susan Russell, Suzanne Sigafoos, Joe Soldati, and FWS Board Member ( to be announced) Sat., 2-4PM, Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th, Portland. 2011 READINGS & EVENTS November 1 Willa will read with Mia Birk, Marilyn Johnston, Lois Leveen and Barry Sanders, Tuesday, 7:30PM, 12th Annual Reading of Oregon Jewish Writers, Oregon Jewish Museum, 1953 NW Kearney Street, Portland. October 18 Willa will read with Anita Sullivan at the Figures of Speech Reading Series, Tues., 7PM, In Other Words Bookstore, 14 NE Killingsworth, Portland. July 12 Willa will participate in a panel with Cindy Williams Gutierrez and Fred Marchant, Starting the Avalanche: Remembering War, Genocide, Conquest, Stonecoast MFA Program Summer Residency, Freeport, Maine. May 6 - 8 Willa will offer two workshops: Using the News as Material for Poem Making & The Poet's Palate and will read with Carolyne Wright and other from I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, Northwest Poets' Concord, Hallmark Inn & Resort, Newport, Oregon. April 14 Willa will speak at PCC Rock Creek's Creative Process Symposium with novelist Loretta Stinson and sculptor Mylan Rakich.	Latest Updates SAVE THE DATE: Willa's interdisciplinary exhibit entitled THE BOOKS OF ESTHER will open at the Oregon Jewish Museum, Sept. 12, 2012 Check out Exit, Winter, a juried show : Reception: First Thursday, January 5, 6-9pm; Exhibition Dates: January 5 - 28, 2012, Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland. Willa will show two photos and a ceramic sculpture. Crows, Birkenau Watchtower in Winter Death Bed Check out Willa' poems in the current issue of The Barefoot Review at: http://barefootreview.org/winter2011.html#willa_schneberg. Check out Garrison Keillor reading Willa's poem "Spilled Milk" on a recent Writer's Almanac: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/10/06. Check out Willa reading her poems on the Oregon Poetic Voices website: http://oregonpoeticvoices.org/poet/198/ Check out Willa's piece on the Writer's Craft. Photos from Willa's Opening Guardino Gallery, Portland Oregon, March 31 - April 24, 2011. Willa's essay and slideshow "Bearing Witness at Auschwitz/ Birkenau" is in the Spring 2011 edition of Northwest Dharma News. To read her essay visit: www.northwestdharma.org/news/Spring11/witness.htm. Willa Schneberg's ceramic sculpture "Eternal Flame Torah Pointer (yad in Hebrew) was donated by Nathan Cogan In Memoriam of Sara Cogan to the Havurah Shalom Synagogue, Portland Oregon. The work is on permanent display in the space where services are held. A picture of the sculpture is below: "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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