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Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday July 27th, we'll have a feature from Sam Preminger, two mini features from Morgan Paige & Donovan James, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Sam Preminger Sam Preminger is a non-binary, Jewish poet based out of Portland, OR. They serve as the Managing Editor of Nailed Magazine and hold an MFA from Pacific University. You can find more about Sam at sampreminger.com. ~ MINI-FEATURE: Morgan Paige Morgan Paige is a creator, morbid optimist, business owner and cannabis lover residing in Vancouver, WA. Her poetic cadence is not her own. Rather, an expression of the ever unfolding spiral of nature manifesting itself through her selection of…

Magnetic North / True North Social Celebration

Magnetic North 2021 SE Belmont St, Portland

Come join us next Wednesday evening 6/26 for some fun and food. We want to celebrate all our friends, collaborators, and partners in crime! Come one come all! Beers by @montuckycoldsnacks and learn about the next iteration of our #makerspace @truenorthpdx

Free

Queen of the Sea Launch Party

Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland

The FIRST EVENT in our NEW SPACE is heckin DYLAN MECONIS, folks! Which is to say, we are the LUCKIEST. You know her work from Bite Me!, Family Man, Outfoxed, and The Long Con. Now: a big fat book of graphic historical fiction with a whole bunch of nuns. YES. (Official, far more informative marketing copy follows). Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this beautifully detailed hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary. When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But…

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Shawn Levy

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

We welcome Portland author Shawn Levy to the store, reading from his newest book, The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont. For ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favored the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairytale castle, the Chateau seems to come from another world entirely. Its singular appearance houses an equally singular history. An apartment house-turned-hotel, it has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore. Much of what's happened inside the Chateau's walls has eluded the public eye. Until now. With wit and insight, Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons, the creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, the births and deaths that the Chateau…

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Classics Book Group

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

This month our group meets to discuss Richard II by William Shakespeare. Join us!

Free

Readers Choice Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

The Readers Choice Book Club meets the last Wednesday of every month at 7pm. Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. You don't have to RSVP, just come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Join us for the June meeting of the Readers Choice Book Club. We will discuss The Girl He Used to Know edited by Tracey Garvis Graves About the Book: A compelling, hopelessly romantic novel of unconditional love. This wonderful novel deals with life and love on the spectrum with captivating and heart-warming characters who will stay with you long after you've finished. Available…

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Creation Island

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

Creation Island is a generative writing salon hosted in Portland, Oregon. Why island? Do you know how islands are formed?? They bubble up from the magma or snap off from other land masses, and they have their own ecosystems and their own rules. We’ve been forming islands for years. We’re all about eruptions and watching the lava flow. We make space for you to write HELP and other messages on the shore, then kick down sandcastles and build new ones. Also, we believe deeply in not being an asshole, to yourself or others. Creation Island is taught by Nathan Wade Carter and Zulema Renee Summerfield. Click here for more information, or to sign up.

Free

Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation With Rene Denfeld

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

From award-winning essayist Chelsea Biondolillo, The Skinned Bird (Kernpunkt) is about all the ways we break our own hearts. In lyric, fragmented essays – full of geological, ornithological, and photographic interventions, with landscapes, loss, and longing – Biondolillo travels the terrain of leaving and finding home, while keeping her sights fixed firm on the natural world around her. Biondolillo will be joined in conversation by Rene Denfeld, author of The Child Finder.

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