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Mother Foucault’s 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview

Join us at the 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival at Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, Washington! October 25-27, join publishers, authors, and plain old book lovers for potlucks in the pavilion, readings, workshops, walks by the sea, and maybe even some karaoke at the Sou’wester Lodge and Trailer Park in Seaview, Washington. Featuring: Alejandro de Acosta, John Beer, Gerald Costanzo, Karolinn Fiscaletti, 2019 Airstream Fellow Harrison Harb, Anis Mojgani, Flavia Rocha, Ed Skoog, Rose Swartz. We are proud to announce the Winner of our Poetry Fellowship this year is Harrison Harb! As the 4th Annual Airstream Poetry Fellow, Harrison will spend the week prior to the festival in the Sou’wester’s Potato Bug trailer and share his work at the Saturday night reading. Tickets for the festival: Tickets…

$20

A Halloween Poetry House Show!

Pointy House 2930 SE Clay St, Portland

Slamlandia invites you to embrace the macabre and join us for our October house show - with a special holiday twist! Come out to Slamlandia’s All Hallows Eve Poetry Show. This house show will have a poetry open mic - to sign up bring out your spookiest work - poems about ghosts! vampires! zombies! financial aid debt! Don't have any scary poems of your own? Come read us your favorite piece by Poe! Lovecraft! Shelley! R.L. Stine! Do your best rendition of Werewolf Bar Mitzvah for us! Or better yet, bring us a ghost story! This house show will also have featured readings from both Avery Gadling and Bri G. Avery Gadling is a southern transplant whose accent was lost along the way here. They…

$5 – $10

Filament’s October Reading Featuring Alicia Jo Rabins

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

Join us for Filament's October reading, with special guest Alicia Jo Rabins! We have a new cast of talented MFA readers in addition to Alicia, and we're delighted to be back at the IPRC this autumn. "Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life. Rabins’ first collection of poetry, Divinity School, won the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her second collection, Fruit Geode, was published in October 2018 by Augury Books/Brooklyn Arts Press. As a musician and performer, Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about the…

Free

Fall 2019 Seasonal Workshop w/ Domi Shoemaker & Daniel Elder

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

Workshop Leader: Domi Shoemaker. Co-Facilitator: Daniel Elder This fall, come on a new adventure with Corporeal Writing. Lidia has been offered an incredible opportunity that will take her out of town and deep into her writing all autumn long, so she’s leaving a pair of seasonal workshops in the trusted hands of Domi Shoemaker and Daniel Elder.Domi has been co-facilitating workshops with Lidia since the birth of Corporeal Writing , and Daniel has been writing with and learning from both Lidia and Domi for the four years that he has called Portland home. Together, using prompts and methods learned from Lidia as well as devised on their own, these two writers will take you deep into the richness of metaphor. Color. Changes in light, leaves, life. Meditation. Observation. In this generative workshop…

$275

Clara Parkes

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

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool (Abrams) is a fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way. Join Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold.

Free