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Free Poetry Reading featuring Jessica Mehta
February 16, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
FreeJoin poets Jessica Mehta, Pamela Santos, and Ally Harris for an hour of poetry and literary love. Emceed by Zoe LaHaie.
Free and open to the public. Wine and coffee available for purchase.
Ally Harris is the author of the poetry chapbooks Dispersal (The Song Cave, 2019) and Her Twin Was After Me (Slim Princess, 2014). She lives in Portland, Oregon where she curates Submission Reading Series.
Pamela K. Santos is a Pinayorker artist creating multilingual narratives on diasporic identity and hyphenated selves in America’s whitest city. Pamela co-founded Portland’s first Winter Poetry Festival and currently curates the Sari Not Sari installation series. A 2019 recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship, her poetry appears in Tayo Magazine, Anomaly, Newtown Literary, Stoked Words, and the Unchaste Anthology.
Jessica Mehta is the author of over one dozen books, and a fellow at Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington DC. She’s a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and currently working on a project that blends an experimental form of poetry with virtual reality. Jessica is this year’s visiting poet at Chemeketa Community College and preparing for a National Parks Art Foundation residency in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Please note: This reading will be part of a documentary filming.