For twenty-five years, Portland Arts & Lectures has delighted and informed Oregonians. Reporter, humorist, and poet Calvin Trillin has been delighting and informing Americans for even longer. Join us in celebrating our milestone anniversary with Trillin, a long-time friend and supporter of Literary Arts who appeared as our very first Portland Arts & Lectures speaker in 1984. A true polymath whose writings range from the farcical to the politically forthright, Trillin consistently proves to be an entertaining provocateur.

A former reporter for Time and the New Yorker as well as a columnist and weekly poet for the Nation, Calvin Trillin is the author of a dazzling number and range of books, including an account of the desegregation of the University of Georgia, numerous comic novels, a series of memoirs, and multiple collections of poetry.

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