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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • WORKS
    • Endless Pressure, Endlessly Applied
    • LICHEN SONGS >
      • Notes for Lichen Songs
    • BEAVER'S FIRE
    • KEEPING THE SWARM
    • FRED HILL—A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE
    • SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE
    • DARKROOM SOLDIER
    • POETRY IN MOTION
    • WEST OF PARADISE
    • ZOO POEMS
    • OREGON LITERATURE SERIES
    • CHINESE COUPLETS
    • MARKING THE MAGIC CIRCLE
    • OFF THE MAIN ROAD
    • SUNDAY AFTERNOON
  • REVIEWS
    • Lichen Songs REVIEWS
    • Beaver's Fire REVIEWS
    • Keeping the Swarm REVIEWS
    • Soldier to Advocate REVIEWS
    • Darkroom Soldier REVIEWS
    • West of Paradise REVIEWS
    • Marking the Magic Circle REVIEWS
    • Off the Main Road REVIEWS
    • Sunday Afternoon REVIEWS
  • EXCERPTS
    • West of Paradise EXCERPTS
    • Marking the Magic Circle EXCERPTS
    • Off the Main Road EXCERPTS
    • Sunday Afternoon EXCERPTS
  • INTERVIEWS
    • 2021—FILM
    • 2016
    • 2006
    • 2000
    • 1999
    • 1997
    • 1996
    • 1994
    • 1978
    • 1971
  • EVENTS

EVENTS

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         Poetry Reading: William Stafford Memorial, January 15, 2014, Roundhouse         Series, Joe Bean's Cafe, La Grande, Oreg.
  • Non-Fiction Reading: First Draft Reading Series, January 16, 2014, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, Oreg.

FULL LENGTH VIDEO: EOU ARS POETICA: VENN READING
Author George Venn, Professor Emeritus, reads from Keeping the Swarm, for EOU's largest Ars Poetica crowd ever.

KEEPING THE SWARM EVENTS (2012--2013)
  • Book Launch Party, November 18, 2012, Cook Public Library, La Grande, OR
  • Holiday Cheer, December 2, 2012, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
  • Public Reading, January 29, 2013, Ars Poetica, Eastern Oregon University
  • Public Reading, April 6, 2013, Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission "Discovering Oregon Originals"
    Gresham Library, Gresham, OR
  • Public Reading, April 7, 2013, Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission "Discovering Oregon Originals,"
    Central Library, Portland, OR
  • Public Reading, September 26, 2013, Fishtrap, Enterprise, OR

NORTHWEST BOOK TOUR: SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE: C.E.S. WOOD’S 1877 LEGACY (2006-2008)

  • Linn County Historical Society, Albany, Oregon, 5/ 18/ 2008
  • “C.E.S. Wood.” Laurence Cotton and John Degraaf. KCTS, Seattle, Washington, 30 minutes, 5/ 27/ 08
  • Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Walla Walla, Washington, 4/ 11/ 08
  • “C.E.S. Wood.” Laurence Cotton and John Degraaf. Oregon Public Broadcasting (“Oregon Experience.”)
    30 minutes, 2/ 11/ 08
  • Columbia Forum, Astoria, Oregon, 11/ 12/ 07
  • Coaster Theater, Cannon Beach, Oregon, 11/ 11/ 07
  • Tamastslikt Cultural Heritage Museum, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon, 11/ 3/ 07
  • High Desert Museum, Sagebrush Soldiers Event, Bend, Oregon; two presentations with Stephan Zacharias,
    Living History Program Actor, as Lt. C.E.S. Wood, 6/ 9/ 07
  • Lewis and Clark State College, Native American Awareness Week, Lewiston, Idaho, 3/ 15/ 07
  • Deschutes Public Library, Deschutes Historical Society, Bend, Oregon, 1/ 14/ 07
  • Van Meter, Mike. “Mike Van Meter Interviews Author George Venn.” KLCC Radio: Northwest Passage,
    12 January 2007, at 4:00 and 4:30 pm.
  • The Book Barn, Bend, Oregon, 1/ 12/ 07
  • Central Oregon Community College Library, Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program, Bend, Oregon, 1/ 11/ 07
  • “The Talking Earth.” George Venn’s Soldier to Advocate Interview by Walt Curtis. KBOO Community Radio,
    Portland, Oregon, 12/ 11/ 06.
  • Eastern Oregon University, Reading Room, Pierce Library, La Grande, Oregon, 12/ 4/ 06
  • Multnomah County Library, Hollywood Branch, Portland, Oregon, 11/ 11/ 06
  • Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, Native American Center, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 11/ 10/ 06
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