Grab a cocktail and enjoy some poetry! It’s happy hour on Saturday, so join us in celebrating new work, new books, and raise your glass to say, “Cheers!”
Free admission | 21+
Location:
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR 97214
3:00-5:00pm (show up a little early to grab a drink and a seat!)
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Readers:
Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose work has either appeared or is forthcoming in African American Review, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2018, The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, storySouth, Guernica, and elsewhere. Destiny has won the Academy of American Poets Prize, Naugatuck River Review’s 2016 Poetry Contest, and Meridian’s 2017 “Borders” Contest in Poetry. She has received support from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Pink Door, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. She earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University, where she currently works as a research coordinator.
Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of the poetry collection deciduous qween, selected by Richard Blanco for the 2017 Benjamin Saltman Award & forthcoming from Red Hen Press in June 2019. His recent poems appear in the Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Poetry Daily, Grist, Houston Public Media, & elsewhere. He received his MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University & currently lives in Houston, where he teaches with Writers in the Schools.
Heidi Seaborn is the author the award-winning debut book of poetry Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do} (C&R Press/Mastodon Books, March 2019), Poetry Editor for The Adroit Journal and a New York University MFA candidate. Since Heidi started writing in 2016, she’s won or been shortlisted for nearly two dozen awards including the International Rita Dove Award in Poetry and published in numerous journals and anthologies including The Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Penn Review and Nimrod, a chapbook and a political pamphlet. She graduated from Stanford University and is on the board of Tupelo Press. www.heidiseabornpoet.com
Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay, to be published by Milkweed Editions in February 2018. She is also the author of the chapbook Nonstop Godhead, selected by Rigoberto González for the 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship 30 and Under and her poem “I’m Trying to Write a Poem About a Virgin and It’s Awful” was selected for Best New Poets 2015 by Tracy K. Smith. Her poems have also appeared in the New Yorker, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, and The Antioch Review. She is the 2016 DISQUIET International Literary Prize winner in poetry and is the recipient of scholarships from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the Image Text Ithaca Symposium. She holds a BA in English literature from Trinity University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston.
John Allen Taylor’s first chapbook, Unmonstrous, will be published by YesYes Books in spring 2019. His poems are published in DIAGRAM, Nashville Review, The Common, Pleiades, and other places. He serves as the senior poetry reader for Ploughshares, coordinates the writing center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, co-directs the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program, and bakes sourdough bread.
Amber Flora Thomas is the author of three collections of poetry: Red Channel in the Rupture (2018), The Rabbits Could Sing (2012), and Eye of Water (2005), which won the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A recipient of the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize, and Ann Stanford Prize, her work has appeared in The New England Review, Tin House, Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, Saranac Review, and Third Coast, as well as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and numerous other journals and anthologies. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and faculty member. She received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. She was born and raised in California.
Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press, 2019). He is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a residency from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and, most recently, a 2019-2021 Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry. Jim’s recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, and Washington Square Review. Originally from Cookeville, Tennessee, he holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He tweets @whiteside_jim
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