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Running Wild Poetry Slam
March 27, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
FreeRunning Wild Press Portland Poetry Slam: Featured Readers and Open Mic. Your chance to share and perform in Portland. Bring your best five minutes of material for the open mic session. There will be time for about eight readers in the open mic portion, so get there early. Sign-up list will be followed in order. Poetry is encouraged, but all kinds of pieces are welcome. Refreshments available from the Jade Lounge.
Contact: Lisa Montagne
Organization: Running Wild Press
Featuring:
Host: Lisa Montagne, Ed.D.
Director of education for Running Wild Press. She is a poet, author of creative non-fiction, college professor, artist, and dancer from Southern California. lisamontagne.com
Armine Iknadossian
Born in Beirut, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1974 to excape the civil war. She is the author of All That Wasted Fruit (Main Street Rag Press). armineiknadossian.com
B.A. Williams
A queer writer and performer from East Long Beach, CA, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is currently working on a novel-length manuscript and poetry collection.