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PSG Story Swap and Potluck – Open to the public

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland

The Portland Storytellers' Guild invites you to join us at the Multnomah Arts Center (Room 30 - parking available behind building) for a Story Swap and Potluck beginning at 6:30PM. This is a monthly event on the 2nd Friday of each month -- from September through May. Open to the public, free of charge, and is for tellers and non-tellers alike. The Story Swap is a great time to visit with others that love stories. Here you will hear stories from well experienced tellers and those telling for the very first time, and all of the stops along the way in between. Many have come just to hear the stories and over time decided they wanted to tell a story. We often hear that we…

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Eric Flamm, Donald J. Mackie, Benjamin Lederer (Inkwater Press)

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland

Join us for our monthly reading by authors from Inkwater Press! Portland Zionists Unite! and Other Stories, by Eric Flamm: These raw, interlocking short stories—set in Israel, Portland, and Thailand—explore the complex reality of modern Israel, its recent history, and what it represents to its citizens and foreign-born Jews. With a range of different narrators—three Israel Defense Force soldiers, a hawkish retiree, a synagogue executive director, and a young video game fan—each story viscerally speaks to the contrasts between Israel’s founding mythology and current political realities. Each narrator’s perspective is different, but collectively the voices engage with a growing concern in US Jewish communal life: how to countenance an Israel that increasingly doesn’t reflect the values of American Jews. When Push Comes to Shove: A…

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Gobshite Quarterly # 33/34!

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

This issue features: Leanne Grabel on Sylvia Plath's last weekend - Jennifer Robin travelling many dimensions of strange on the Portland bus system - Poe Ballantine on the manic under-achievements of FancyPants McTeo - Recent poetry & prose from Lithuania, Croatia, Russia, and Switzerland. Each piece appears in English & at least 3 other languages.

Free

7 Deadly Sins Presents: Andrew Dickson’s Kids These Days

McMenamins Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan St, Portland

7 Deadly Sins is proud to present the launch of its new 7DS: Voices series with the world premier of Andrew Dickson's Kids These Days at Portland’s historic Mission Theater. Kids These Days is part storytelling, part comedic monologue, and part TED Talk about how much and fast the world has changed, how awful and amazing it is to be a parent, and the generational politics of baby boomers, generation X and Y, millennials, and whatever kids younger who were born a few years ago are going to be called. For example, Andrew will perform his ABC book, written for the world kids are going to inherit. ("A is for Apple. They make the bright, colorful devices we pay attention to instead of you.") And he’ll present his list…

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$25

Unchartable Release + Reading

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

Join Portland Review as we launch the 2019 issue, Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns. The first themed anthology in our 63-year publishing history, we've called on an international set of writers and artists to contemplate, create, and "grapple with the environment in the widest sense of the word." This event will feature readings by 2019 contributors Tracy Daugherty, Amalia Gladhart, Brooke Matson, and Vuslat D. Katsanis; Vuslat D. Katsanis will be reading a translation of Öznur Kutkan's work. The event will also include an author discussion of the Unchartable theme, moderated by Portland Review's Jennifer Cie. The issue can be purchased at the time of the event or through online pre-order: http://portlandreview.org/unchartable-on-environmental-unknowns/ Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, two books…

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