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word.FisherPoet Zine Queen Moe BowsternWriters on the Edge • July 16STAR PERFORMER at the Fisher Poets Gatheringin Astoria and FisherPoets On The Edge inNewport, Moe Bowstern got her first boat jobcooking on a salmon tender in Kodiak, Alaskawhen she was 18. When her grumpy crewmatestold her she’d never make it on a fishingboat, she swore she’d do it just to prove themwrong. Bowstern is a master of storytelling,letting out thekjekljAfter graduating from Northwestern Universitywith a degree in English Literature, Bowsternspent the next nine springs and summersworking as a deckhand and skiff operator inthe salmon, herring, halibut and cod fisheriesof Kodiak Island, Alaska. Her work has beenpublished in the anthologies Salt In Our Veins,and Drive, and in the Alaska Fishermen’sJournal. She has also written for and publisheddozens of ‘zines and was nominated for a 2003Independent Press Award.At the Nye Beach Visual Arts Center. Showbegins at 7pm in the second floor meetingroom of the Newport Visual Arts Center, locatedat 777 NW Beach Drive (across from the NyeBeach Turnaround). General admission is $6at the door, students always admitted free.Light refreshments will be available.Mountain Rescue Doctor,Christopher Van TilbergAt Seaside Library • July 14CHRISTOPHER VAN Tilburg, author of “MountainRescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in theExtremes of Nature” is hosted by the SeasideLibrary on Thursday, July 14, 7pm. The event willtake place in the Community Room and there willbe book sales and signings presented by BeachBooks.Christopher Van Tilberg is an emergency roomphysician and a member of Crag Rats (the firstofficial volunteer mountain rescue group in thenation). The book recounts rescues done on Mt.Hood by season. In the winter, he explains thedangers of tree wells, and patches of loose snowthat can snare skiers and cause serious injury.On a hot day in July, Chris tells of engineering thetricky rescue of a cliff jumper with a back fracture.When Christopher’s mountain rescue beepergoes off, the call may take him racing up a mountainpeak, scaling down a rocky ledge to intubate ahiker, or fighting through a blizzard to the site of anairplane crash.Seaside Public Library is located at 1131Broadway, across from the Swimming Pool. Formore information call (503)738-6742 or visit usat www.seasidelibrary.org and www.facebook.com/seasidepubliclibraryJohn DanielManzanita Writer Series • July 17LUNAR BOY Gallery and Astoria Coffeehouse will behosting an event of hilarity, and dramatic reading ofthe new literary sensation: Go The Fuck to Sleep.This rhyming bedtime book for grown-ups by AdamMansbach is told from the (absolutely hysterical) perspectiveof the frustrated parent. Excerpt: “The catsnestle close to their kittens, The lambs have laid downLunch with the Author seriesAt Beach BooksBEACH BOOKS continues its Lunch with the Authorseries on July 11 at 12 noon with Gloria Stiger Linkeyand Sally Steidel. Gloria will read from her new bookNative American Women: Three Who Changed Historyand Sally will discuss the drawings she created for it.This is the story of three Native American women inthe 1800, Sacagawea, Watkuese and Marie Dorian,whose lives intertwined. Gloria has been telling theirtales for the past four years, speaking to groupsas varied as the American Association of UniversityAdam Mansbach readsGo the F•ck To Sleepwith the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed,my dear. Please go the fuck to sleep.” And please beadvised: as the title of this book suggests, this readingwill be peppered with a significant dose of f-bombs.Friday, July 15, 6pm @ Lunar Boy Gallery, 24011th St, in Astoria.Women, elementary schools and tourists on a cruiseship. And now she has written about them in herbook, beautifully illustrated by Cannon Beach artist,Sally Steidel.Please contact Beach Books at 503-738-3500 tomake reservations as space is limited. Cost is $20and includes a catered lunch and a copy of NativeAmerican Women: Three Who Changed History. FMI:Karen Emmerling, Beach Books, 503-738-3500.OREGON WRITER John Daniel,author of the award-winningmemoir Rogue River Journal isthe featured guest at the JulyManzanita Writer Series, onSaturday July 17, 7pm, at theHoffman Center.Daniel’s latest work The FarCorner: Northwestern Viewson Land, Life, and Literature(Counterpoint, April 2009), isa collection of personal essaysthat explore various subjectsin the human and more-thanhumanworlds, seeking todefine his allegiances to hishome places, his region, andthe wholeness of life itself.Author of nine books of poetry,essays, and memoir, Daniel haswon the 2006 Pacific NorthwestBooksellers Award for RogueRiver Journal—an account ofa winter in solitude interwovenwith memoirs of his father andhis own coming of age—as wellas two Oregon BookAwards and a fellowshipfrom the NationalEndowment for theArts. A former WallaceStegner Fellow atStanford University andJames Thurber Writer-in-Residence at Ohio StateUniversity—and a formerlogger, hod carrier, railroader,and rock climbinginstructor—Daniellives with his wife,Marilyn Daniel, in theCoast Range foothillswest of Eugene, Oregon.He is now conducting a yearlongmemoir workshop throughFishtrap, a community of writersand readers headquartered inEnterprise, Oregon.The Hoffman Center, locatedat 594 Laneda Ave in Manzanita.OPEN MIC: After thefeatured guest, sign up for a 5minute reading. FMI: hoffmanblog.orgonline or contact KathieHightower, 503-739-1505;kathie@jumpintolife.net).25 july11 hipfishmonthly.com