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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

Online N/A, Portland

Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms This workshop is virtual, PST Register here Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms In this 6-week class, we will experiment with short form creative writing. Our focus—whether it’s flash fiction, lyric essay, prose poetry, or hybrid—will be on the art of compression. Each week, participants will be given a writing exercise, a short reading, and two workshop submissions from their peers. Class time will include workshop as well as discussion of readings and craft. Our workshop will be guided by observations, questions, and possibilities. We will be thinking less about how to “fix” a piece of writing and more about what we see, our curiosities, and how to recognize hidden opportunities. Each participant will receive feedback from…

$80 – $200

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic *Hosted at Art at the Cave*

Birdhouse Books 1001 Main Street, Vancouver

Ghost Town Poetry is an open mic that goes down on the second Thursday of every month at Art at the Cave. More information can be found on the Printed Matter Vancouver website: https://printedmattervancouver.com/tag/ghost-town-poetry-open-mic/

Free

Caverly Morgan

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

When Caverly Morgan reentered the world after a period of eight solitary years as a practicing Zen monk, she was confronted with a question so many of us find ourselves asking these days: when faced with the enormity of the collective problems before us, how can an individual mindfulness and meditation practice actually make a difference in our world? In The Heart of Who We Are (Sounds True), Morgan explores how contemplative technologies designed for the pursuit of personal freedom can be — and must be — applied collectively. Filled with wisdom rooted in presence and the truth of our oneness, Morgan’s timely guide invites us to connect with the core of who we are and then use that understanding to transform our own lives…

Free

Seanan McGuire in Conversation With Amanda Cherry

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in Lost in the Moment and Found (Tordotcom), a new standalone tale in Seanan McGuire’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you'll find it here. If you ever wondered about your favorite toy from childhood... it's probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore this time you'd keep safe? You guessed it… Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He's not in the shop, and she'll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she discovers that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not…

Free

In-Store Poetry Reading: Bill Siverly and Penelope Scambly Schott

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Bill Siverly and Penelope Scambly Schott for readings from their latest collections. About Starry Night: "Employing a mirrored parallelism for both individual poems and this entire collection, Bill Siverly takes us on a journey that encompasses Germany, his childhood in Idaho, the pandemic, and the drought. Although Starry Night celebrates the balm of the natural world and the joys of a passionate marriage, the gravitas of the tone here is clear: These poems implicate us fully in the destruction we've wrought on our world. Siverly's lyric voice demands we acknowledge 'how in one lifetime we've greased the skids / of our human demise.'" -Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, author of One Small Sun Bill Siverly was born and grew…

Free