January 20th Performance by Evelyn Sharenov, John McAteer and Kate Mann January 20, 2009

Oregon Literary Review co-hosts Third Tuesdays, a series of readings and performances held at Krakow Koffeehouse 3990 N. Interstate (at N. Shaver, next to The Alibi and blocks from N. Mississippi hip-zone), 7-8:30pm. Readers and performers interested in participating should contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen at gmail.com with an expression of interest and sample work.

The readers/performers for January 20th are Evelyn Sharenov, John McAteer and Kate Mann

Evelyn Sharenov's stories, essays and poetry have been published in Glimmer Train, Fugue, Rain City Review, Mediphors, Hip Mama, XConnect, Eclectica and other journals. She has been awarded an Oregon Literary Arts grant in fiction and has been a notable in Best American Short Stories. She is a freelance reviewer for the the Oregonian newspaper, and has written features and reviews for The Bear Deluxe and Bitch Magazine. Her short story "Magic Affinities" was anthologized in "Love You To Pieces" from Beacon Press last spring. Evelyn has degrees in literature and mental health nursing and did graduate work in piano performance.

John McAteer, originally from Boston, came to Portland via 35 years teaching English in Kyoto, where he published in the Hailstone Haiku Review and became deeply involved in the Japanese Noh theater. His major work was the 2005 production of Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man” as a complete English Noh drama with Japanese musicians and foreign cast and chorus. Recently he has been working on shorter, Noh-inspired “Poem Performed” pieces and will present T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock preceded by an introduction to Noh dance movement.

A former high school teacher, Kate Mann had an awakening of sorts in 2005 and dedicated herself to music full time. She traded in her car for a van, fixed up her mother’s old 1963 Gibson acoustic, and started touring the Western United States. Her unique brand of moody Americana has been cultivating a loyal local fan base, and she is continuing the trend regionally. Her song “Cowboys are my Weakness” was recently selected as a finalist in the Americana category of the Independent Music Awards.