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An Armful of Words: Celebrating the Belmont HMart

High Low Art Space 936 SE 34th Ave, Portland

(This is a remake for it to be a public event!) Hi Portland Fam! To celebrate the opening of the Belmont HMart, the folks at High/Low Art Space and I are organizing an AAPI literary reading! Come enjoy an Armful of Words with a handful of writers!! There will be light snacks purchased direct from the HMart! There will be more art on the walls, like this amazing tiger by Conner Choi. Plus work by Seungdo Hyun. This is a space for building community, art, and solidarity. Bring your friends! Friday May 24 6pm Suggested donation $0 - $10 High/Low Art Space 936 SE 34th Ave

Free – $10

Objection! Poetry Slam 2019

Lagunitas Community Room 237 NE Broadway St #300, Portland

The YLS Service to the Public Committee, in association with Literary Arts, invites you to the Second Annual Objection! Poetry Slam. The theme is "Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society" and the event is open to participants ages 13-22 who would like to perform a poem expressing their views. The local and talented Alex Dang will be emceeing the slam and hosting a creative writing workshop at the beginning of the event. And there will be free food, beverages, and cash prizes! Attendance is free, no RSVP required. We hope you join us for a night of creative thought and performance. Details and rules at https://mbabar.org/calendar/2019-05-24/objection-poetry-slam-2019.html

Free

Old Pal Issue 2 Reading

Private Residence - Email for Address 0 SE Nonexistant Ln, Portland

Three contributors to Old Pal, Jac Nelson, Rose Swartz, and Jenessa Vanzutphen, read from their work across genres at a friendly, private residence. All are welcome to join! Please email editors@oldpalmag.com for the address. You can find our readers' work in Issue 2 of Old Pal and / or learn more about them below. JAC NELSON is a multimedia poet living between the ancestral lands of the Nisqually people (at Puget Sound) and of the Očeti Šakówiŋ (at the Minnesota River). Their work begins with art and artist as ethical questions that emerge from inherited context: ancestry, language, land, trauma, coercion, and decision activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Jac continues to learn about, engage with, and resist the ways they benefit…

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Free

PZS Zine Anthology Release and Reading

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

Celebrating year 19 of the Portland Zine Symposium, PZS will be releasing our fundraiser anthology, on the theme "Mistakes". Come buy a zine and support PZS! Readers To Be Announced doors at 6:30 // readers promptly at 7 bring money for a zine or to donate to PZS // NOTAFLOF

Free

Karen Russell in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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

Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives is on full display in the eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories in her new collection, Orange World and Other Stories (Knopf). Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master, showcasing Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Russell will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.

Free
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