Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m.

First Alternative Co-Op
South Store Meeting Room
[This has changed! Please note new venue.]

1007 SE 3rd Street, Corvallis

Rob Dietz

Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

Grass Roots Books & Music will host Corvallis writer Rob Dietz, co-author of Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources with Dan O’Neill, for a book discussion and signing at the First Alternative Co-op South Store, in their meeting room. In the book, Dietz and O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth —an economy where the goal is not more but enough.They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial system, create jobs, and more —all with the aim of maximizing long-term well-being instead of short-term profits.

Please Note: The event venue has changed!

Saturday, Feb. 2 at 2 p.m.

Grass Roots Books & Music

227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis

Tom Titus

Blackberries in July: A Forager’s Field Guide to Inner Peace

Biologist Tom Titus returns to his native Oregon in search of old orchards, bay clams, wild mushrooms, spawning salmon, and home. This poetic year-long hunting and gathering of his spirit reunites him with the land and traditions of four generations and leads to a profound reordering of values and priorities. Humor and compelling personal insight illuminate the emotional pitfalls and spiritual payoffs of the conscious pursuit of place.

“Whether stalking an abandoned orchard or wrestling salmon in well-known waters, Tom Titus gives witness to the joys, trials, and mysteries of tramping in the wild. Writing from within his community of many species, he becomes interfused with the weather and the woods. These fine essays delve deep into the meaning of our relation to place.” —Charles Goodrich, author of Going to Seed: Dispatches From the Garden

Saturday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m.

Grass Roots Books & Music

227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis

Poetry Reading
What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems
Edited by Kathryn Ridall

What the River Brings is a collection of poems celebrating rivers by 56 Oregon poets. This afternoon we will be joined by Charles Goodrich, Donna Henderson, Claudia Lapp, Kathryn Ridall, and Tim Whitsel.

“What the River Brings is a great gift to all of us who love rivers. Carry this gift in your canoe or daypack or the pocket of your raincoat; its sentences will shimmer with reflected sky and dive to depths you had not imagined. There is no greater pleasure than sitting by the water when the cottonwoods are sweet and coming to know the river anew through the minds and hearts of Oregon’s most wonderful poets.” —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Riverwalking and Wild Comfort

Saturday, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m.

Grass Roots Books & Music

227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis

Poetry Reading: Constance Eggers
Reliquary

Celebrate the release of local poet Constance Eggers' first chapbook, Reliquary, with an afternoon poetry reading at Grass Roots.

“Pilgrim, saint, a sweltering teenage mother, a stubborn teenage daughter, the Blessed Virgin, a fable’s scrub-maid, a fairy tale’s queen: all quicken within these vibrant lyrics. On page after page of Reliquary, Constance Eggers offers us arresting, archetypal females. Her poems are resonant songs for the kind of ‘spiky, sharp women’ she claims as her kin.” —Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate

Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.

Main Meeting Room,
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library

645 NW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis

Kim Stafford

Reading, conversation, and book signing

100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir

Co-Sponsored by Grass Roots Books & Music, Friends of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, and The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.

Kim Stafford joins us to read from and discuss his memoir 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do.

Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. Growing up, there was a code of silence in the family, not to talk about the hard things. Against a backdrop of the 1960s—puritan in the summer of love, pacifist in the Vietnam era—Bret became a casualty of his interior war and took his life in 1988. In this book, through a brother's devotions, the lost saint teaches us about depression, the tender ancestry of violence, the quest for harmonious relations, and finally the trick of joy.

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