Kevin Sampsell @ CCC

Portland-based writer and publisher Kevin Sampsell will be reading in CCC's Literary Arts Center on October 26. The event is scheduled for 7 pm and will be free and open to the public.

Sampsell is the author of the short story collection Beautiful Blemish, which was nominated for a nerve.com Henry Miller Award, and called by Publishers Weekly "whimsical, hilarious, and cryptic...a gem of warmhearted idiosyncrasy and oddball observation." He is also the author of many other small books such as A Common Pornography and the editor of an anthology, The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night. Sampsell has run his micro-press, Future Tense Books, since 1990. Besides publishing fiction, he is also the founding member of the haiku performance group Haiku Inferno and his reviews appear widely.