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Summer | Write from Life w David Biespiel | Aug 20-21 | In-Person + Online (2 SPOTS OPEN FOR IN PERSON; OTHERS ON ZOOM)

Online N/A, Portland

Praise for Writing from Life: "I left the weekend with an agenda and a plan and realistic expectations." ~ Pat Brim-Williams This popular tune-up workshop will be run twice this summer, in July and August. It's the kind of study every writer needs, an opportunity to write from studying your own portrait and then seeing what subjects that leads you to. The supportive approach emphasizes observation as the route to achieve new material, new possibilities, and new pieces, whether you are writing fiction, memoir, or poems. The approach teaches you new skills that you can use for all your future writing, as well as how to transfer your observations into clear notes, jottings, studies, and pieces of new writing. This method of writing is one of the foundational skill sets that all writers should…

$215 – $244

Black Poets Society: Sisters & Soulfood

Online N/A, Portland

Blackness, whiteness and otherness: words, when strung together, that may cause discomfort and awkwardness. Join us in that discomfort this August as we meditate on the voice of the Black Woman. The poetry and the spoken word African-American Women will guide us in dialogue to hear from our community differently, to know one another differently, to see reconciliation differently. Format: Black Poets Society is a two session series with readers sharing a broad range of historic and modern poetry and spoken word by Black Women. Attendees will have a chance to respond in writing, discuss and unpack in table conversations and participate in a larger group conversation. Each part is a standalone event, but will weave together thematically. You should come to these events if…

Free

Patio Book Release Party: Intestinal Fortitude

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Rose City Book Pub is thrilled to host the book release party for Intestinal Fortitude by Earl Llewellyn Goldmann! Join us on the patio for light refreshments and a great time! Part autobiographical and part expose, INTESTINAL FORTITUDE, weaves Earl’s battles with injury, abuse, depression, and recovery even as he succeeds as a basketball standout, teacher, coach, father and friend. In his compassionate and moving memoir, Earl’s stories flow into our hearts and souls. We experience his unflinching optimism. Earl proves that a strong man with resilience and gratitude can find himself and be a beacon of hope for all of us.

Free

Jennifer Robin

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland
Free