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Submission Presents PNW Writers
March 28, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
FreeSubmission Reading Series presents a PNW-themed reading featuring writers Jamondria Marnice Harris, Quenton Baker, Jessica Mehta, Rob Schlegel, and Ally Harris. The event will also feature local musicians Jamondria Harris, Kevin Holden, and Emma Browne, and some of the sets will blend poetry and music. This event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Ally Harris
Submission Reading Series presents a PNW-themed AWP offsite reading featuring writers Jamondria Marnice Harris, Quenton Baker, Jessica Mehta, Rob Schlegel, and Ally Harris. The event will also feature local musicians Jamondria Harris, Kevin Holden, and Emma Browne, & some of the sets will blend poetry and music. This event is free & open to the public. Light snacks and booze available for free/by donation.
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Jamondria Harris is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland,Oregon. Their work uses words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, spirit/source, decolonization, fairy tales, femme supremacy, & body horror. They are a VONA Workshop Fellow, among other things. Their book of poetry and art, quaerere, is available from Magic Helicopter Press and their music can be found at meroitic.bandcamp.com and https://soundcloud.com/meroitic.
Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is anti-blackness and the afterlife of slavery. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, Pinwheel, and The Offing. He is the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016).
Kevin Holden is a sound artist and composer based in and around Portland, Oregon. Their work oscillates between dissonance, harmony, and digital recomposition. Check out their sound here: kholstudios.bandcamp.com
Jessica Mehta is a poet, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and author of over 13 books. She’s currently a fellow at Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington DC and working on a poetic VR experience, Red/Act. Find out more at www.jessicamehta.com
Rob Schlegel is the author of In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps, winner of the 2018 Iowa Poetry Prize.
Ally Harris will be reading from her forthcoming chapbook of poems, Dispersal, out soon from The Song Cave. She runs Submission Reading Series and teaches writing, environmental, and social justice at Oregon Culinary Institute.