Come up to the lake and join the Summer Fishtrap community as New York Times best-selling novelist Jamie Ford delivers the 36th Summer Fishtrap Keynote address on this year’s theme of “Generations.” Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani opens the evening with poems filled with inspiration, humor, and hope. Get you tickets here.
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer, Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Jamie’s latest novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, was an instant NYT bestseller. His work has been translated into 35 languages. (He’s still holding out for Klingon, because that’s when you know you’ve made it).
Learn more: jamieford.com
Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, Anis has done commissions for the Getty Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Oregon Parks Department, and the Portland Timbers. His work has appeared on HBO, National Public Radio, in the pages of the NYTimes, and in such journals as Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review. The author of five books of poetry and the libretto for the opera Sanctuaries, his first children’s book is forthcoming from Holiday House/Neal Porter Books, and his latest poetry collection comes out in 2023, The Tigers, They Let Me. Originally from New Orleans, Anis currently lives in Portland Oregon.
Learn more: thepianofarm.com
