Witness and the American Literary Review
Paddy's Bar and Grill
65 SW Yamhill St
Portland, OR 97204
United States
Open to the public.
Witness and the American Literary Review invite you to an evening of readings at Paddy’s Bar and Grill. Readers in poetry and prose include John McCarthy (Scared Violent Like Horses, 2019), Jessica Guzman Alderman, Samar Fitzgerald, Jameelah Lang, Cade Leebron, David Mura, Gale Marie Thompson, Ruvanee Pietrersz Vilhauer, and Kathleen Winter.
John McCarthy
John McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses, selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, and Ghost Country, named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by the Chicago Review of Books. He serves as an editor of RHINO magazine and the Quiddity international literary journal and public radio program.
Selected by Victoria Chang, this winner of the Jake Adam York Prize is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.