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Willa Schneberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her second collection In The Margins Of The World, Plain View Press, was awarded the 2002 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She has won two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships in poetry, and received a grant in poetry from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Tikkun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, among others. Click here for a full bio. 2012 READINGS & EVENTS May 31 Willa will participate in a celebration and Memorial Reading for Adrienne Rich: Poet, Activist, Social Critic, Teacher & Catalyst, Thurs. 7-9PM, Buchan Reception Room, Unitarian Church, SW 12th & Main. May 5 Willa will teach a workshop: INVITING LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, THE ORACLE, AND "THE COAT OF MANY COLORS" INTO OUR POEMS,Sat', 2:30 - 2:20PM, and will participate in a reading from Before We Have Nowhere to Stand, Palestine/Israel: Poets Respond to the Struggle, 4:30 -5:20PM, NorthwestPoets' Concord, Hallmark Inn, Newport, Oregon. March 31 Willa will read with other contributors to VoiceCatcher 6, Sat. 2PM, Central Library, Portland. March 22 and March 24 Willa will read at Split this Rock Festival: Poems of Provocation and Witness, Washington, D.C. with other contributors to I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, Thursday, 2PM, Busboys & Poets, 14th & V, Langston Room, and Before We Have Nowhere to Stand, Palestine/Israel: Poets Respond to the Struggle, Sat., 2PM, True Reformer Auditorium, 12th & U. March 21 Willa will present with Ingrid Wendt, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. March 15 Willa will read with Melissa Madenski in the "Comma" Series, Thurs. 7PM, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway. January 22 Willa and Robin Bagai will host an event to celebrate the life and work of William Stafford. Featuring Ron Bloodworth, A. Molotkov, Susan Russell, Suzanne Sigafoos, Joe Soldati, and FWS Board Member ( to be announced) Sat., 2-4PM, Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th, Portland. 2011 READINGS & EVENTS November 1 Willa will read with Mia Birk, Marilyn Johnston, Lois Leveen and Barry Sanders, Tuesday, 7:30PM, 12th Annual Reading of Oregon Jewish Writers, Oregon Jewish Museum, 1953 NW Kearney Street, Portland. October 18 Willa will read with Anita Sullivan at the Figures of Speech Reading Series, Tues., 7PM, In Other Words Bookstore, 14 NE Killingsworth, Portland. July 12 Willa will participate in a panel with Cindy Williams Gutierrez and Fred Marchant, Starting the Avalanche: Remembering War, Genocide, Conquest, Stonecoast MFA Program Summer Residency, Freeport, Maine.	Latest Updates Some photos from James Madison University & Split this Rock, where Willa had the pleasure of reading with Ingrid Wendt, Martha Collins, Naomi Shihab Nye and Alicia Ostriker. Willa will have a poem in the forthcoming anthology: Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books, co-edited by Anne Marie Macari and Carey Salerno with a Foreword by Maxine Kumin: http://alicejamesbooks.org/pages/author.php?authorID=140 Willa's interdisciplinary exhibit entitled THE BOOKS OF ESTHER will open at the Oregon Jewish Museum, Sept. 12, 2012. Two of Willa's photographs were represented in Exit, Winter, a juried show January 5 - 28, 2012, Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland. Crows, Birkenau Death Bed Check out Willa' poems in the current issue of The Barefoot Review at: http://barefootreview.org/winter2011.html#willa_schneberg. Check out Garrison Keillor reading Willa's poem "Spilled Milk" on a recent Writer's Almanac: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/10/06. Check out Willa reading her poems on the Oregon Poetic Voices website: http://oregonpoeticvoices.org/poet/198/ Check out Willa's piece on the Writer's Craft. Photos from Willa's Opening Guardino Gallery, Portland Oregon, March 31 - April 24, 2011. Willa Schneberg's ceramic sculpture "Eternal Flame Torah Pointer (yad in Hebrew) was donated by Nathan Cogan In Memoriam of Sara Cogan to the Havurah Shalom Synagogue, Portland Oregon. The work is on permanent display in the space where services are held. A picture of the sculpture is below: "Hill of Crosses" by Edis Jurcys Willa is the English language editor for Hill of Crosses, Gardens of Life, images of Lithuanian-American photographer Edis Jurcys (cover below), who reveals through his intimate lens, the preservation of the sacred and the constantly renewing spirituality of one of the most unique places in Lithuania – the Hill of Crosses.
Latest Release Storytelling in Cambodia Poems by Willa Schneberg Introduction by U. Sam Oeur and Ken McCullough Click here for ordering information. This moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems journeys from Cambodia's mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. A beautiful and heart-wrenching collection. "Willa Schneberg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey—from the Ramayana and Angkor Wat to the terrors of Pol Pot—encountering along the way Buddhist pacifism and the divine warrior, André Malraux and Tricky Dick and Kent State, among a host of characters. Her Cambodia is a world and she’s gotten deep within its skin. This is rich rewarding poetry, a compassionate, visionary response to a very real world." Sam Hamill "In Storytelling in Cambodia Willa Schneberg writes a searing account of one of the darkest moments in modern history. Schneberg's haunting verse testimony, her portraits of those who dragged a once peaceful country into the nightmare of genocide, her passionate homage to an ancient civilization now irrevocably lost move the reader even as they horrify." Carolyn Forché
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