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Spare Room Annual Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein & Jackson Mac Low
April 30, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeSpare Room and Passages Bookshop
present a marathon reading
IDA by Gertrude Stein
Pieces o’ Six by Jackson Mac Low
Sunday, April 30
12:00 pm until finish
(probably around 8:00-8:30 pm)
Admission free
Passages Bookshop
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665
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The Spare Room Reading Series hosts an annual marathon reading, in which
local writers, artists, and friends read aloud one or more booklength texts.
This year’s marathon features Gertrude Stein’s short novel Ida (1945) and
Jackson Mac Low’s thirty-three “poems in prose” Pieces o’ Six (1992).
Readers (in order of appearance) will be
Chris Piuma
David Abel
Phoebe Wayne
Elizabeth Costello
James Yeary
Joe Safdie
Chris Ashby
Patrick Hartigan
Endi Bogue Hartigan
Angel O’Brien
Rodney Koeneke
Laura Feldman
Seann McCollum
John Beer
Robert Blatt
Sam Lohmann
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Upcoming events at Passages Bookshop:
Saturday 5/6 Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Mark So
Wednesday 5/10 Spare Room Reading Series
Susan Schultz, Norman Fischer, & Jeanne Heuving
Friday 5/12 Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Mike Richard
Saturday 5/20 Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Kenneth Gaburo’s Maledetto performed by the
Evergreen Experimental Music Ensemble
Friday 5/12 Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Nico Vassilakis & mARKO WHENs
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