Clark College's Columbia Writers Series welcomes Kaveh Akbar, poet, novelist and editor, whose works appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review and Best American Poetry. He is the author of "Calling a Wolf a Wolf" and "Pilgrim Bell." "Martyr," his debut novel, was a New York Times bestseller and one of […]

The Camas Public Library offers a Virtual Speaker Series featuring talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. October’s speakers are scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at 11 a.m. Oct. 2, Silvia Moreno-Garcia at 4 p.m. Oct. 9, and Lori Gottlieb at 11 a.m. Oct. 22. Learn more at libraryc.org/camaslibrary/upcoming.

What do Loki, Banksy, Bugs Bunny, Thelonious Monk, Mae West, Yoko Ono, Raven, Eshù Elégba, and Muhammad Ali all have in common? From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at Fourth Plain Community Commons, Author Shepherd Siegel explores the Trickster in politics and culture, discussing the paradoxes, art, tricks, backfires, pranks and pratfalls that form […]

Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna welcome poets Amy Baskin, Alina Cruz and Emma Krall for October’s First Friday Poetry Night, 7 to 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at 1001 Main St., Suite B, Vancouver. Baskin is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow, an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner […]

The "Living on the Land" class series, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays from Oct. 1-Dec. 3, teaches stewardship principles to small acreage land caretakers. Experts will give advice on pasture and livestock management, managing weeds, caring for the forest with wildfire and climate stress, improving wildlife habitat, soil health, stormwater management and well and septic […]