Third Tuesday Author: David Biespiel

David Biespiel was born in 1964 and grew up in Houston, Texas.  He is a poet, literary critic, columnist, and contributing writer at The Rumpus, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Partisan, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications.

He is the author of numerous books, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award. His books of essays include a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, and A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry, which received the Frances Fuller Victor Award. From 2005-2010 he was the editor of Poetry Northwest. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.

Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in additon to other colleges and universities. He is a longtime faculty member in the MFA program at the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and also in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program. He is the President of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library and admission is free. The Lake Oswego Public Library is located at 706 4th Street, Lake Oswego. For more information, contact Alicia Yokoyama at 503-534-4228.