LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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The Work Poetry Workshop with Christopher Luna

Angst Gallery 1015 Main St, Vancouver

Join us on Monday, June 24 for The Work, a poetry writing workshop at Angst Gallery led by Christopher Luna. “Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.” ― Allen Ginsberg, “Memory Gardens” (Fall of America, City Lights) The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion, and sparks the shifts in consciousness which can lead to healing, personal growth, and an interest in fighting for progressive social change. The Monday Night Edition of The Work takes place at Angst Gallery (1015 Main Street, Vancouver) from 6-8:30 pm on the second and fourth Monday of each month, unless…

Free – $20

Survival Stories

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories -- A Quarterly Reading Series We welcome feminist readers from across the gender spectrum and from every intersection sharing their written work in narrative tapestry. We hope to be antidepressant, hope-peddling, boundary-breaking, multicultural, and oriented towards action. Our inaugural reading theme is "water." Doors at 6:30pm. Our first readers will be: Anya Pearson, Domi J Shoemaker, Flint Flint, Kate Gray, Margaret Malone, Mary Wysong-Haeri, Pamela K. Santos, and Ravyn Gerri Stanfield Hosted by Marissa Korbel.

Free

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation With Tim Olmsted

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

At 36 years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat, following the ancient practice of holy mendicants. Soon he became deathly ill from food poisoning – and his journey took a startling turn. His lifelong meditation practice had prepared him to face death, and he now had the opportunity to test the strength of his training. In his powerful, candid account of the inner workings of a Buddhist master, In Love With the World (Spiegel & Grau), Rinpoche shares the lessons he learned from his near-death…

Free

Kevin Scott

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

In The Voice of This Stone (Carpe Diem), a respected volcanologist with five decades of scientific study and boots-on-the-ground experience shares his expert knowledge. Through more than a dozen case studies from around the globe, Kevin Scott offers chilling details about what happened before, during, and after infamous volcanic cataclysms. During his lengthy career as a field geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Scott traveled extensively to visit sites that were dramatically altered by forces within the earth. Scott’s case studies highlight some of the best known events and advance warnings regarding future episodes. By deciphering the histories of other disasters, Scott proposes, lives can and will be spared.

Free

Reading: 9 Bridges

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

9 Bridges is a community for writers to find support, friendship and helpful resources in an informal, evolving community setting.

Free