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

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Shut Up and Eat Open Mike

Shut Up and Eat 3848 SE Gladstone St, Portland

This is a safe space to share your words and to enjoy others sharing theirs. Our intent is to reinvigorate the poetic scene in SE as a collective group of artists and aficionados. We hope you will join us for these evenings of creativity, culture, and community. How We Do Things We meet on the second Wednesday of every month starting October 12, 2016. If we draw a regular audience we will see about increasing the frequency. We put out the clipboard for sign-ins by 6:25 PM and will start the first reading around 6:35 PM. You are welcome to come early to have a bite or a drink. Poets read in the order they sign up and will have five minutes each to read…

Free