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Jessica Garrison & Sarah Weinman

Online N/A, Portland

On the surface, 58-year-old Jose Martinez didn't seem evil or even that remarkable — just a regular neighbor, good with cars and devoted to his family. But in between taking his children to Disneyland and visiting his mom, Martinez was also one of the most skilled professional killers police had ever seen. A page-turning, suspenseful story of a drug cartel hit man who got away with murder after murder in California's Central Valley for three decades, award-winning reporter Jessica Garrison’s The Devil’s Harvest (Hachette) reveals how the criminal justice system fails our most vulnerable immigrant communities. The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious…

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Free

2020 Tin House Residents Virtual Reading

Online N/A, Portland

with Ashia Ajani, Jari Bradley, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Faylita Hicks, Kirin Khan, and Abbey Mei Otis Free and open to the public! ASL Interpreters! We’re very excited to host the 2020 Tin House Residents for an online reading! Mark your calendars for September 14th, 5:00 pm PST, and join us for an evening of remarkable talent! Head to our website for more info about the Residents and their incredible work.

Free

Fall 2020 online: Nature Writing Now

Online N/A, Portland

What does it mean to write about nature now? We are living at a time of great ecological peril and promise, when some thinkers are questioning whether “nature” still even exists. How to write about this complexity in authentic and evocative ways? How to convey both the beauty and the corruption of beauty? Together, we will consider some historical and contemporary nature writing. Noticing how the genre has changed over time will help us understand how our cultural conceptions of self and nature have both changed and remained the same. Contemporary nature writing often reflects complex social and political realities, while also reminding us of the abiding depth of feeling created by, for instance, placing one’s hand on a tree trunk and pausing to simply…

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$285

The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

Online N/A, Portland

NOTE: Due to restrictions aimed at keeping us safe from the COVID-19, The Work will continue as a remote workshop via Zoom. Please email Christopher Luna at christopherjluna@gmail.com by midnight the night before each workshop to RSVP if you would like to participate. Also, please share this event with others who might be interested. The cost for the workshop is a suggested donation of $20 to Christopher Luna’s PayPal account: christopherjluna@gmail.com “Suggested” means that we would like for you to join us regardless of whether or not you can afford it right now. Join us on the second and fourth Monday of every month for The Work. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages…

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Free – $20

Livestream Poetry Reading: Gina Williams, Dan Raphael, Christopher Luna

Online N/A, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Gina Williams, Dan Raphael, and Christopher Luna for a livestream reading from their latest collections. Livestream registration link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/poetry-reading-gina Gina Williams's An Unwavering Horizon is a finely crafted collection that explores perspectives and understandings often missed in the hustle and crush of everyday life. The beautiful things. The ugly things. The poetry of things. Williams takes an honest, questioning look at the hard realities of the human condition, from family crisis to war to our precarious place in the natural world, while also seeking answers and offering hope for the future. Jonathan Starke, editor of Palooka and author of You've Got Something Coming writes, "Williams channels the hardships of existence through a lightning voice of empathy and illumination--pure and crisp…

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Free

An Appointment with Emily and Your Chair: Free Writing Session

Online N/A, Portland

Writing, even on a good day, is hard. So how do we do it on the not-good days, on the days when it feels like the world is upside-down? “Butt in chair” is the simple answer. We make ourselves sit down, and we don’t get up until we’ve gotten a few sentences down at the very least. But sometimes it feels impossible to even get to the chair. We’d honestly rather throw the chair out the window than sit in it. But what if we made an appointment with the chair? And we knew that other interesting people were doing it too, at the exact same time? This free Zoom meeting is that appointment. We’ll say hello, and then we’ll work from a writing prompt.…

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