Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205
United States
Free and open to the public.
The Rumpus is pleased to host Jake Skeets, author of the award winning collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, for a pop-up poetry reading at the Portland Book Festival. Jake Skeets will join forces with authors Kristen Arnett (Mostly Dead Things) and Malcolm Tariq (Heed the Hollow) for this poetry reading.
Fnd the pop-up in front of MEDIUM by Heather Watkins, located in the Northwest Art Galleries on the 4th floor in the Portland Art Museum. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map to find this location.
Admission is Free and open to everyone. Join The Rumpus and the Portland Book Festival for fifteen minutes of literary bliss!
Jake Skeets
Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Waters Edge. Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico, he holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts.
This National Poetry Series winner is an unflinching portrait of the actual west—full of beauty as well as brutality, where boys tentatively learn to become, and to love, men.