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 BOOK LAUNCH | 2023-2024
A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love

WED NOV 1: Powell's City of Books
Portland, 7:30PM

SUN NOV 5: Houston Book Festival
Houston JCC, 4PM

WED NOV 8:
Elliott Bay Book Store
Seattle, 7PM




WED NOV 15: Broadway Books
Portland, 6PM

FRI FEB 9:
Corvallis Art Museum
Q/A W Sindya Bhanoo
Corvallis, 7PM

SAT FEB 17: Mother Foucault's Bookshop
w Matthew Dickman
Portland, 7PM

David speaking at Grassroots Bookstore in Corvallis, Oregon.

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David speaking with Atsuro Riley at the Portland Book Festival.

David speaking at Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Texas.

David in conversation with Wendy Willis at 57th Street Books in Chicago, Illinois.

David speaking at AWP in Minneapolis, Minnesota..

David in conversation with Lia Purpura at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC.

David Biespiel, Madrid, Reading, Poery
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David talking with Gavin Larsen at Portland Center Stage in Portland, Oregon.

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David speaking at the New School in New York City.

David speaking from the "podium" at Desperate Literature in Madrid, Spain.

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David talking via Zoom with the "New Yorker" Reading Group. 

2020 - 2021 VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR —

A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas 

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WED SEP 23: NPR | Houston Matters

Live On-Air Interview with Gary Cohen

Houston, TX. 9:45am CT

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SUN OCT 4:  Palo Alto Jewish Community Center

Conversation with Tova Birnbaum and Luba Palant

Palo Alto, CA. 4pm PT

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THU OCT 8:  BOOK LAUNCH: Powell's Books

Conversation with David Naimon

Portland, OR. 6PM PT

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MON OCT 12:  Elliott Bay Books

Conversation with Emily Warn

Seattle, WA. 6pm PT

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TUE OCT 27:  Annie Bloom's Books

Joint Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Veselka

Portland, OR. 7pm PT

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WED OCT 28:  Unorthodox | Podcast

Interview with Tablet magazine podcast hosts Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie Butnick, and Liel Leibovitz

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FRI OCT 30:  Grassroots Books

Conversation with Tracy Daugherty

Corvallis, OR. 7pm PT

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NOV 11:  Portland Book Festival

Reading at Portland Art Museum

Portland, OR. 1:30pm PT.

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WED NOV 11:  Houston Book Fair

Conversation with Joshua Fuhrman

Houston, TX. 6pm CT

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FRI NOV 13:  Texas Book Festival

Reading with Kelly J. Baptist and David Marquis 

Austin, TX. 8:30pm CT

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SAT NOV 21:  Book Club: Neveh Shalom

Conversation with Rabbi David Kosak.

Portland, OR. 9:30am PT

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TUE DEC 1:  Magic City Books

Conversation with Jeff Martin. Tulsa, OK. 7pm CT

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TUE DEC 15:  Book Club: Beth Shalom

Conversation with Rabbi Marc Rudolph. Chicago, IL. 8pm CT

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SUN MAR 14:  Book Club: Co-Sponsored by Adas Israel and Beth El

Conversation and Q/A. Washington, DC. 11am ET

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TUE MAY 4:  Book Club: The Community Synagogue

Rye, NY

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PAST READINGS

57th Street Books (Chicago)

Alexander Book Co. (San Francisco)

Annie Blooms Books

Allysia Duckler Gallery (Portland)

Associated Writing Program (AWP) Conference

Art Gone Wild Gallery

Barnes & Noble Bookstore

Bay City Arts Center

Beaverton Public Library

Belmont Library

Blackfish Gallery

Blue Peter Bookstore (St. Andrews, NB, Canada)

Book Festival of the South

Book Passages (Corte Madera, CA)

Blacksmith House (Cambridge, MA)

Brazos Bookstore (Houston)

Broadside Books (Northampton, MA)

Broadway Books

Bumbershoot: Seattle Arts Festival

Cadboro Bay Book Company (Victoria, BC)

Portland Central Library

Chapters Bookstore (Washington, DC)

Cody’s Books (Berkeley)

Concordia University

Daedalus Books

Deschutes Public Library

Disjecta

Douglas County Museum

Eastern Washington University

Elliot Bay Book Company (Seattle)

Eckerd College

Everett Community College

Fact and Fiction (Missoula, MT)

Full Circle Bookstore (Oklahoma City)

Glenview Mansion Reading Series (Washington, DC)

Grassroots Bookstore

Haystack Summer Conference

Houston Book Festival

Hugo House 

Jewish Museum of Maryland

Lawrence Gallery

Linn-Benton Community College

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Lynchburg College

Lynnwood Public Library

Magic City Books

Marylhurst University

Milagro Theater

Miller Cabin Reading Series (Washington, DC),

Milwaukee Poetry Series

Mittleman Jewish Community Center

Mother Foucault's Books

Mountain Writers Center

Mount Hood Community College

National Book Foundation

Northwest Bookfest

Ohio University

Open Books: A Poem Emporiaum

Oregon State Poetry Association

Oregon State University

Oswego Heritage House

Salem Arts Festival

Northwest Business for Culture & the Arts

Oregon Jewish Museum

Palo Alto Jewish Community Center

Paulinas Springs Bookstore

Peninsula College

Poetry Foundation (Chicago)

Poets on Broadway Reading Series

Politics & Prose (Washington, DC)

Port Townsend Art Center

Portland Book Festival

Portland Community College

Portland State University

Possession Sound Writer’s Conference

Powell’s City of Books

Printer’s Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)

Provost's Reading, Oregon State University

Rainier Writing Workshop

Readings Between A & B (New York, NY)

Reed College

R.J. Julia Bookstore

Seaside Theater

San Antonio Book Festival

Silverton Poetry Festival

Stanford University

Smithsonian Institution

Southwestern Oregon Community College

Spare Room Collective

Stayton Public Library

St. Andrews Arts Festival (St. Andrews, NB, Canada)

Steve’s Books (Tulsa, OK)

Texas Book Festival

Tiburon Public Library (Tiburon, CA)

Unamuno Author Series, Madrid, Spain

University of Maryland

University of Minnesota

University of Portland

University of Tulsa

Vancouver Public Library (Vancouver, BC)

Village Books (Bellingham, WA)

Wake Forest University

Western Oregon University

Whitman College

Willamette University

Windfall Reading Series

Woodburn Public Library

Wordstock Festival of Books

Writer’s Guild Reading Series

Writer’s Bloc Reading Series (College Park, MD),

Writers’ Center (Bethesda, MD)

                                                                                                         

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LECTURES AND PANELS

2019: Floyd Skloot in Conversation with David Biespiel, Powell's City of Books.

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2019: Aftermath: Poetry Confronts Politics: David Biespiel, Brenda Shaughnessy, KMA Sullivan, and Crystal Contreras. Portland Book Festival.

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2018: Memoir: Becoming a Writer: With Alexander Chee, Michelle Franke, and Nell Scovell. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

 

2017: A Portrait of the Artist: Coming of Age

Memoirs: With Rob Spillman, Chelsea Martin, and Kristen Radtke. Wordstock Portland Book Festival.

 

2017: The Poet's Place in an Uneasy World.

With David Baker, Tyehimba Jess, James Galvin, Ishion Hutchinson. LA Times Festival of Books.

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2017: Books That Saved My Life. With Clay Smith and Michael Schwalbe. San Antonio Festival of Books.

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2017: The Personal Is Political Is Poetic. With Hayan Charara and Morgan Parker. San Antonio Festival of Books.

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2016: Breaking Poetry Pattern: Experimenting with Form in Poetry. With Tyehimba Jess, Anna Moschovakis, Sun Yung Shin. Wordstock Portland Book Festival.

 

2016: The Poet’s Place in an Uneasy World. With Rick Barot, Suzanne Lummis, Spencer Reece, Luis J. Rodriguez. LA Times Festival of Books.

 

2016: The Writer’s Journey. Willamette Writers.

 

2015: Poets & Writers Live, Portland: Literary Opportunities. Portland.

 

2015: The Civic and the Lyric. With David St. John, Peter Gizzi, Amber Tamblyn, Katie Ford. LA Times Festival of Books.

 

2015: Fate of the Writer: Shuttling Between Solitude and Engagement. With Rigoberto Gonzalez, Wendy Willis, Lia Purpura. AWP Conference, Minneapolis.

 

2014. The Art of Place, the Place of Art. With David St. John, Harryette Mullen, Sophie Cabot Black, Matthew Zapruder. LA Times Festival of Books.

 

2013: Why Genre Matters. With Dinah Lenney, Sven Birkerts, Judith Kitchen, Scott Nadelson. AWP Conference, Boston.

 

2013: Postulation and Belief: One Writer’s Assumptions. Craft Talk. Pacific Lutheran University. 

 

2012: Read Poetry. Poets Concord. Newport, OR.

 

2011: Faith and the Writer: Inspiration and Practice. With Dinah Lenney, Askold Melnyczuk, Brenda Miller, Dani Shapiro. AWP Conference. Washington, DC.

 

2011: America’s Next Top (Literary Center) Model. With Charles Jensen, Gail Browne, Jordan Hartt, Andrea Dupree. AWP Conference. Washington, DC.

 

2010: The Future of Reading Culture. With Michael Schaub, Steve Almond, Mona Simpson. Wordstock Portland Book Festival. 

 

2010: What Works. Wordstock Portland Book Festival. 

 

2010: Follow Your Strengths, Manage Your Weaknesses. Craft Talk. Pacific Lutheran University.

 

2009: A Celebration of Stanley Plumly. With Patrick Phillips, David Baker, James Hoch. University of Maryland.

 

2009: Drafts and Revision or Methods and Versions. Craft Talk. Pacific Lutheran University.

 

2007-2009: Poets in Our Backyard. Chautauqua Lecture, Oregon Council for the Humanities.

 

2009: Panelist, Northwest Poetry Publishers’ Forum. Seattle. 

 

2007: Present Various presentations at summer residency for Pacific Lutheran University Low-Residency MFA Program.

 

2006: Panelist, Portland as a Literary City. With Matthew Stadler, David Oates, and Sallie Tisdale. Friday Forum, The City Club of Portland.

 

2006: Panelist, Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program.

 

2005: Panelist, Stalking the Wild. With Dan Orasco and Kary Wayson. Possession Sound Writers’ Conference. 

 

2001-2004: Of Love & War: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. Chautauqua Lecture, Oregon Council for the Humanities.

 

2002: Memorial Tribute to Philip Whalen. Reed College.

 

2002: Jose Marti Celebration. Milagro Theater, Portland, OR.

 

2002: Tribute to Octavio Paz. Milagro Theater, Portland, OR.

 

2002: Music and Voice in Poetry. Keynote. Oregon State Poetry Association Conference.

 

2001 Tribute to Yehuda Amichai. With Tess Gallagher, Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld, U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer, Joshua Stampfer, Primus St. John, Gary Miranda. Portland State University.

 

2001: The Art of Translation. Moderator. With Tess Gallagher, Nikolai Popov, Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld, Steve Wasserstrom, and Joshua Stampfer. Reed College.

 

1993: Imagination and the New Millennium. Sigma Tau Delta Lecture. Lynchburg College.

 

1993: First View, Then Vision. Senior Symposium Lecture. Lynchburg College.

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