Jake Skeets at Portland Book Festival

Portland Art Museum
1119 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205
United States

Admission: Portland Book Festival pass required

Portland Book Festival is pleased to host Jake Skeets (Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers), alongside authors Julian Smith (Aloha Rodeo) and Justin St. Germain (Son of a Gun) for a conversation on reconsidering the American West.

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Event name: Frontiers: Reconsidering the American West

When: November 9 @ 11:30 am — 12:30 pm

Where: Portland Art Museum, Miller Gallery (Mark & Ann Edlen Family Stage)

New perspectives on the stories and characters that have shaped and are still definiing the American West. Jake Skeets’s debut poetry collection, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, is an unflinching portrait of the actual West, and a fierce reclamation of a living place—full of beauty as well as brutality. A landscaped scarred by violence, but startlingly lush. An unforgettable human drama set against the rough-knuckled frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 adventure upended the conventional history of the American West. Moderated by Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun.