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Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events
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		1 The Poet’s Toolkit Part 3: Sense – Kate Gray The Nib “Empire” Magazine Issue Release Party Transmit Culture: Graduate Research Symposium Plonk presents Daniel H. Wilson and Stevan Allred SFWA Portland Publishing Happy Hour – May 2019 View All 7 Events »	2 Deep Happening Slamlandia May Guilder Slam All Time Comics release party and art exhibit with Josh Simmons First Thursday: Book Art by Melody Chelsea Biondolillo in conversation with Justin Hocking View All 11 Events »	3 Spare Room reading: Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Phoebe Wayne, & Trevino Brings Plenty Guy McPherson on Climate Change Julie M. Albright The Verse featuring Jonie Blinman Bill McKibben in Conversation With Adriana Voss-Andreae View All 6 Events »	4 Free Comic Book Day TFAW Portland! Free Comic Book Day at Books with Pictures Intro to Letterpress: Two Day Workshop Star Wars Day! May the 4th Be With You Free Comic Book Day 2019 at Bridge City Comics! View All 14 Events »	5 Salt and Straw Ice Cream Cookbook The Voice of Empathy: John Sibley Williams and Paulann Petersen The Poisoner’s Handbook Deep Artwork 3D book release party with Pat Moriarity QTIPOC Draw Night View All 6 Events »
6 Portland State Faculty Author Exhibition Free Range Poetry: Kristin Berger, Joannie Stangeland, Carey Taylor Grant High School WITS Grief Rites Readers Series – May 6 Seanan McGuire View All 7 Events »	7 Niche Book Club: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Story Setting with Rosanne Parry and Willamette Writers Lauren Myracle Michael Beschloss Shawn Levy	8 Joshua Williamson Flash #70 Signing! Joe Wilkins Christine Riccio INCITE: Queer Writers Read: May Red State Revolt – Eric Blanc View All 6 Events »	9 Beneath the music from a farther room: manuel arturo abreu Celebration of Mothers! With Leanne Grabel and more For Colored Folks Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring John Burgess Heather B. Armstrong View All 11 Events »	10 Mother’s Day Weekend Sale at Cosmic Monkey Comics! IN FLUX: Sarah Zapata & Travis Boyer Composers in the Poet’s Cabinets: Works on Paper #1 Michael Collier in Conversation with David Biespiel A.J. Franks, Stephen T. McCrea, Leah Stenson (Inkwater Press) View All 6 Events »	11 Mother’s Day Weekend Sale at Cosmic Monkey Comics! Intro to Risograph Printing Find Your Golden Thread: A Writing Workshop with Madeleine Eno The Work Poetry Workshop: Saturday Edition (New Starting Time) World Collage Day Afternoon Cut-Up View All 12 Events »	12 Mother’s Day Weekend Sale at Cosmic Monkey Comics! Longreads Club: The Underground Railroad of North Korea Slam Team Battle feat. bassam
13 Pop-Up Magazine – Spring Issue 2019 SFF Book Group – May A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times	14 No Adults Allowed Teen Book Club Garden+ Lecture Series: Balazs and Botond Bognar Collage Night 2019 Orpheus Pop-Up Magazine – Spring Issue 2019 View All 8 Events »	15 ANI DIFRANCO in Conversation With Cari Luna – SOLD OUT Paulann Petersen A Dog Named Beautiful: A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home Teachers Summer Reading Night Julie Orringer in Conversation With Karen Thompson Walker	16 Verselandia! East Side Slam Orpheus 2019 Night Two Free Community Reading and Book Release Party Tea with the Author: Leni Zumas QUEER PDXpression View All 14 Events »	17 Comedy vs. Tragedy #15 Birth Without Fear Science Fiction Book Group Young Adult Book Club (Hawthorne) Our Weather Our Sea: Samuel Ace and Marcus Lund View All 8 Events »	18 Compose Creative Writing Conference 2019 Intro to Screenprinting Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari Diary Comics with Liz Yerby STRAY Record Release Party View All 9 Events »	19 Autism Art-in Tess Gallagher in Conversation With Greg Simon & Danielle Vermette Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES Mata Hari Book Release Party Lilla Lit Launches on May 19! WTAW Portland Presents Exile and Return View All 8 Events »
20 Book Club @ The Stacks The Turnout presents Front Porch Sessions feat Nishat Akhtar, Andrew Holguin, and Lindsey E. Murphy Jill Biden Less of More: Pursuing Spiritual Abundance in a World of Never Enough Sunnyside Streetcars: The Streetcars of Southeast Portland	21 Portland Correspondence Co-op Orpheus 2019 Night Three Poetry Reading: Tess Gallagher and Paulann Petersen The Moth: StorySLAM: Flawed Pico Iyer	22 BTTM FDRS release party with Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore Apricot Irving in Conversation with Sony Ton-Aimé Ooligan Press Writers of Color Spring Showcase Readers Choice Book Club Oregon Humanities presents Think & Drink with Danielle Allen View All 8 Events »	23 Telltale Community Night Street Books presents: A Celebration of the Book Orpheus 2019 Night Four Save Yourself – Julie Grandstaff Eat Like a Fish View All 6 Events »	24 An Armful of Words: Celebrating the Belmont HMart Objection! Poetry Slam 2019 PZS Zine Anthology Release Old Pal Reading Karen Russell in Conversation With Leni Zumas	25 Book Launch for The Supernormal Legacy book 3, Emerge Poetry: Walter Moore, David Turkel & Jesse Donaldson	26 Longreads Club: Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies Chase Darkness Meetup and Discussion Last Sunday Writing Workshop
27	28 On Call in the Arctic	29 Poetry Practice Space Rebecca Robinson and Stephen Strom Annie Jacobsen Classics Book Group Whitenoise Project 19: Yen / Kaufka / Kim / Agcaoili / Perez View All 7 Events »	30 QUEER PDXpression Christopher X. Shade Reading: Thomas J. Sims: On Call in the Arctic David Wolman & Julian Smith The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story	31 This Will Destroy You – Pedram Navab and Janice Lee Young Adult Book Club (Burnside) Future Prairie Screening + Q&A Do You Have Kids? Life When the Answer Is No

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