Love poems, Billie Eilish tickets, and all Donations Matched!
Greetings.
Hope you are doing well. It is no secret that we are living in very challenging times. At Street Books, we’ve been thinking about how to contain all the love we have, while acknowledging and feeling the despair. This fall, our Library Operations Coordinator, Josh, suggested we borrow a structure from the poet Pablo Neruda’s collection, Twenty Love Poems & a Song of Despair. This inspired us to collectively create a long list of library patrons, community partners, and even pets that we love and admire, and fashion this into our own version of “love poems.” This month, we'll be sharing some of these Love Poems and we hope they boost you like they do us!
LOVE POEM #1:
Jerry "Baba" Vermillion
Jerry is quiet, capable and always willing to step in and help out. He really shows up. He's funny and smart and devoted to Street Books, in his particular curmudgeonly way.
Nominated by Diana Rempe, Librarian and Community Outreach Director
It's time for Give!Guide!
Your generous support today will help us to continue to provide books, reading glasses and survival supplies on the streets of Portland. With your support, our nonprofit has a big, positive impact on the health and well-being of our community. AND in November and December donations will be matched 1:1 up to $30,000 by a generous group of business partners and donors. A $100 gift automatically becomes $200! Help us to meet our match with a generous today - thank you!
Street Books is excited to partner again with Willamette Week and the many organizations doing stellar work in our city. The campaign begins today, with a Big Concert Day!
Donate $10 or more today and you’ll be entered to win two P1-level tickets for Billie Eilish’s December 8 show in Portland, OR. (Non-transferrable. Winner must confirm name and email for tickets by November 8, 2024).
Street Books is a street library committed to providing connection, community, resources, and advocacy for people living outside or at the margins in Portland, Oregon. We cultivate mutual relationships rooted in dignity and autonomy by showing up every week, year after year, in all kinds of weather, all around the city, to meet people where they are.
The first eight donors who give $50 or more today will receive a $20 Annie Blooms Gift Card. Annie Blooms is an independent bookstore in Multnomah Village, generously supporting Street Books by giving a 10% discount on books that folks buy for our street library. Visit our Wish List and support their great bookstore!
