LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
- This event has passed.
Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Jaz Sufi and Brandon Melendez
August 25, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Free – $5Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!!
This slam is a qualifying slam for the Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals.
There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away.
We will have a feature from Jaz Sufi and Brandon Melendez!
More about our features:
Jaz Sufi is a Kundiman fellow, a National Poetry Slam finalist, and the slammaster of the Berkeley Slam, the longest running poetry slam on the West Coast. She was the 2015 Berkeley Grand Slam Champ, and went on to place third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. She was also San Francisco’s representative to the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam, a featured poet at the 2011 USF Creative Justice Art Show, and has toured internationally, from the Scottish Rites Center to performing alongside the Townsend Opera. Her work has been published or is upcoming in PANK, Birdfeast, the Offing, and elsewhere.
Brandon Melendez is a Mexican-American poet raised in southern California. Melendez is a National Poetry Slam finalist, Rustbelt Poetry Slam finalist, and two-time Berkeley Grand Slam Champion. He was awarded Best Poem and Funniest Poem at the collegiate poetry slam festival (CUPSI) while representing UC Berkeley. In 2018, Melendez received the Djanikian Scholarship from the Adroit Journal as well as the 2018 Academy of American Poets Award. You can find his poems in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Muzzle Magazine, Ninth Letter, PANK, The Journal, Shenandoah, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. His debut collection titled Gold That Frames the Mirror will be published in 2019 with Write Bloody Publishing. Melendez currently resides in Boston where he is an MFA candidate at Emerson College.
We will be at our venue, Tiny’s Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is welcome. We do not censor our mic except for instances of hate-speech. Please also note that we start a little earlier then at previous venues.
Accessibility info: Tiny’s is on the 6 bus line, which is a frequent service line. It is a quarter mile from the the streetcar line and about a half mile away from the max. The building and stage is wheelchair accessible and most of the seating can be moved to create space for accessibility equipment. The venue serves food and coffee, so it is not scent-free.