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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

May 9, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Free
Online, N/A, Portland, OR 97207

Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings.

You can submit your poetry as an audio recording to us. In the audio recording, please introduce yourself, tell listeners where to find your work online and any other message you want to share, and of course your poems. If you have any virtual events you are a part of feel free to share how to find them. Please make the recording up to 7 minutes and give about 5 seconds of silence at the start and at the end of the recording.

Send the recording to wordlightspoetry@gmail.com and if there are any links you want for us to list on our website, please include them in the email. Thank you!

You can also submit your poetry albums to our collection to feature on the radio, if you do, please include a link where your album can be purchased so we can promote your work.

Sign up to our mailing list at wordlightspoetry.com for updates.

Thank you!

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings, presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev, continue as an internet radio show on Shady Pines Radio. Huge thanks to Shady Pines Media for providing us with this platform to share our poetry.
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YOUR HOST: Igor Brezhnev

Igor Brezhnev is a poet and a book designer among his other sins. He is the founder of Wordlights poetry reading series and of Lightship Press, a small press focused on publishing poetry. Igor has two full length collections of poetry published by Liquid Gravity Publishing, a spoken word album Good Days & Bad Days (Lightship Press, 2018), as well as a couple of self-published chapbooks in ‘nights since’ series. You can support Igor at www.igorbrezhnev.com.

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While we are not going to be at Rocking Frog, please keep supporting our amazing venue, so we can come back to it when the dust settles.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/supportfrogbaristas

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Shady Pines Media is a Recording Studio, Video Production Studio, web channel run out of an awesome basement space in Portland, Oregon

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Rocking Frog Cafe is an independently run, local gem in the lower Belmont District of southeast Portland. Nestled in a lovely early-century Craftsman-style bungalow, we offer a comfortable place to study, eat and socialize. Find out more about The Rocking Frog at rockingfrogpdx.com.

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NovaPDX is a talent and production company based in Portland, Oregon. We organize and host performance and educational events, showcasing local and visiting musicians, poets and comedians. Our mission is to create spaces where talent thrives. Learn more about us at novapdx.org.

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Details

Date:
May 9, 2020
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Source:
https://www.facebook.com/events/905002619942742/

Venue

Online
N/A
Portland, OR 97207

Organizer

NovaPDX
Website:
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