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

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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

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Greg Bee

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 will be the first slam in our qualifying season foo the International Poetry Slam! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Greg Bee! More about Greg Bee: Greg Bee is a traveling poet, storyteller, and performer. His work deals with topics like mental health and addiction recovery, gender and sexuality, as well as social and political issues. His first book, Saying Goodbye to Toxic Boys is a codependent love story. 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.…

Free – $5

Wallflowers: A Reading Series

Abigail Hall 813 SW Alder St, Portland

Sunday January 19th! Come out to @abigailhallpdx and see these great writers read original work and writing by women who have informed their craft! @radish_king @iamstillmelia @nataliegaryet @caitlin_delohery A monthly reading series in Abigail Hall honoring a lineage of women writers // Curated by @aamebel & @tyler.sowa

Free

Oh Word!?

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

Drop in any 1st or 3rd Sunday for a collaborative workshop/workspace for collage & found poetry creation. Each week will have a centering exercise & in the spring participants have the option of contributing to a zine & group reading! this workshop is for Black, Indigenous POC who identify as Queer/Trans/Non-binary! facilitated by dovesong labs

Free

Caren Beilin in Conversation With Maya Dusenbery

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

Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman) is a daring memoir by Caren Beilin about reproductive health and the IUD, gendered illness, medical gaslighting, and activism in the chronic illness community. Rhapsodic and unabashedly polemical, Beilin scrutinizes the literary, artistic, and medical history of rheumatoid arthritis, as she considers the copper IUD's role in triggering her sudden onset of chronic autoimmunity. Blackfishing the IUD is an argument that the copper IUD is sickening quite a lot of women – and that we listen first and foremost to women's testimony to begin to resolve it. Beilin will be joined in conversation by Maya Dusenbery, journalist, editor, and author of Doing Harm.

Free