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

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Ongoing

Intro to Letterpress: Two Day Workshop

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

Day 1: Typesetting Essentials Day 2: Printing Essentials Learn to set moveable type and print on table top and poster presses in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historic process. Gain access to IPRCs collection of over 150 fonts of lead and wood type. Leave the class with a printed card and the satisfaction that comes with using 100 year old equipment! Successful completion of this 1 day class grants IPRC Studio Members access to open studio print hours so you can keep on printing. Nonmembers and Basic Members receive one trial month of Studio Membership after completion of the course. 2 Day Workshop Saturday & Sunday 10 am – 2…

$150 – $250

Oregon Battle of the Books Trivia

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

Test your OBOB knowledge in a fun and relaxed atmosphere! We will be playing trivia-based games featuring questions from this year’s 3-5 division OBOB reading list. Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun and get a little extra practice before the battles begin.

Free

Machiko Tateno in Conversation With Heidi Nestler

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

In Japanese Pickled Vegetables (Tuttle), dietician and fermented food expert Machiko Tateno has collected more than 130 easy, healthy recipes for pickled, preserved, and fermented vegetables. Tateno will be joined in conversation by Heidi Nestler, founder of Wanpaku Natto.

Free

True Crime Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

True Crime Book Club meets on Sundays and October's pick is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club. Email us to order it or come in!

Free

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Rashida Quinn

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This slam is a qualifying slam for the Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals. There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Rashida Quinn! We will be at our venue, Tiny's Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is welcome. We do not censor our mic except for instances of hate-speech. Please also note that we start a little earlier then at previous venues. Accessibility info: Tiny's is on the 6 bus line, which is a frequent service line. It is a quarter mile from the the streetcar line and about a half mile away from the max.…

Free

Refugee and Migrant Rights Fundraiser

Dig A Pony 736 SE Grand Ave, Portland

A combination reading and concert event raising funds for Team Brownsville and the McAllen Immigrant Respite Center, with poems by Kim Stafford, Armin Tolentino, Sophia Shalmiyev, Ana Maria Ferreira, and Gwendolyn Morgan, as well as live music, and raffles for donated good from Literary Arts, the IPRC, Tavern Books, Zig Zag Wanderer, Holocene, and more.

Free

Janis: Her Life and Music

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

Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. In Janis (Simon & Schuster), Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.

Free