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A Poetry Reading by Rosalie Moffett

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland

Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, (Ecco/Harper Collins) winner of the National Poetry Series. She is also the author of June in Eden (Ohio State University Press). She has been awarded the “Discovery”/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets. She is a professor at the University of Southern Indiana.

Free

Horror Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

We will discuss The Institute by Stephen King. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same way Luke did. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King's gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don't always win. Available at a 15% discount to order…

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Small Press Residency – Perfect Day Publishing

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland

Rocking Frog Cafe & NovaPDX present our Small Press Residency program starting this October. Every month, meet the people from local small press publishers involved in making great books. During the residency you can purchase the featured press’ books at Rocking Frog Cafe and meet the people behind them. This month our featured press is Perfect Day Publishing (www.perfectdaybooks.com). Join us on Thursday, October 24th with our guests Mohamed Asem, Alissa Hattman & Jack Lewis. ~ Mohamed Asem Mohamed Asem is the author of the memoir Stranger in the Pen (Perfect Day Publishing, 2018). His work has appeared in Oregon Humanities, Eunoia Review, the anthology What Lies Beneath (selected by Hilary Mantel and Bonnie Greer), and elsewhere. He has an MFA in creative writing from…

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Queer Writing w Wayne Gregory

Attic Institute 4232 SE Hawthorne, Portland

How does being queer shape the stories we write and the way we write them? Does character, plot, or theme make a narrative queer or is it something in the way a queer writer sees the world that colors a narrative? This class will invite writers to explore and express their identity and how it informs what they write and the way they write it.  Whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction, or just writing for yourself this class will help you make connections between who you are becoming and what you are imagining through your writing. Writers with little or a lot of experience are welcome to this workshop-style class. Bring something you’re already working on or start from scratch, but either way our…

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$210 – $237

Poetry Night – JC Mehta, Gwendolyn Morgan, Armin Tolentino

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland

Join us for our monthly poetry night! This month we’ll hear from JC Mehta, Gwendolyn Morgan, and Armin Tolentino. SAVAGERY joins JC Mehta’s oeuvre as a reflection of what it means to be indigenous in today’s increasingly hostile, post-colonial America. Reflecting on self, place, and space and with strong confessional leanings, SAVAGERY joins the ranks of other much-needed indigenous poetry of the era to provide a lens (and mirror) into indigenous issues and disparities while also providing a constant offering of hope. These poems are raw and very, very necessary. Gwendolyn Morgan’s Before the Sun Rises offers richly textured poetic renderings of and emotional responses to natural landscapes. Her poems hold a deep sense of care for and rootedness in the natural world. She weaves…

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5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland

It’s that time again! Thursday 10/24 7pm, come out for the next edition of 5x5! This month featuring six rad poets sharing their newest work @cardinalclub @katslarue @fistsofmanilamae @__k___dog__ @deepspacemime @mademoiselledelphine @ayearofstrangehours Stop by and say hi

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Jake Brennan

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

From Jake Brennan, creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, Disgraceland, comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history. At the center of Disgraceland (Grand Central) is the ever-fascinating music industry – a glittery stage populated by gangsters, drug dealers, pimps, and groupies, with violence, scandal, and pure unadulterated rock 'n' roll entertainment.

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Melissa Matthewson in Conversation With Chelsea Biondolillo

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

Melissa Matthewson’s memoir-in-essays follows the journey of a pirate radio DJ, writer, mother, and organic farmer exploring identity, sexuality, and feminine desire through opening her marriage. Tracing the Desire Line (Split Lip) looks closely at what happens when the narrator runs the edges of desire by questioning the nature of monogamy and freedom within a conventional marriage. Matthewson will be joined in conversation by Chelsea Biondolillo, author of The Skinned Bird.

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2019/2020 Portland Arts & Lectures: George Packer (Sold Out)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland

George Packer is a journalist, novelist, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker. His latest book is Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, which the members of the Whiting Award grant jury—from whom Packer was awarded a grant to complete the work—say is “irreverent, fast-paced, and unfailingly rigorous. . . an enthralling nonfiction picaresque that offers incisive clues to the complexities this country faces today.” Packer’s other works include the nonfiction titles The Unwinding, recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2013; The Assassins’ Gate, which was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Blood of the Liberals, which…

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Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE

The Old Church Concert Hall 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland

STORYTELLERS DAN KENNEDY Host of the Moth Podcast, Author of Loser Goes First, Rock On, and American Spirit — Loads of McSweeney's Humor, Fly-Fishing is his Meditation ALINA ALIYAR Returning July Russian Roulette Winner, Proud Parent, Chocolatier, Executive Producer of 7 Deadly Sins Show, Public Ugly Crier KATIE NGUYEN Returning March Russian Roulette Winner, Named one of the Portland Mercury’s Geniuses of Comedy, Host of Earthquake Hurricane, Addicted to Using Q-tips in Ears LORI FERRARO Writer, Sketch Comic, Huffington Post Blogger, Magnet For Dental Hygienist Chit-Chat, Unhealthy Obsession With Mick Jagger DARSHANPREET GILL High School Science Teacher, Has Traveled To Over 25 Countries, Harry Potter Club Advisor at Her School, Grew Up On A Farm, Ex- Marching and Jazz Band-er Featuring: DAN KENNEDY Host of Peabody Award-Winning Moth Podcast, Author of Loser Goes First, Rock On, and American Spirit — Loads of McSweeney's Humor, Fly-Fishing…

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$16 – $26
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