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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Maya Hersh

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This slam is the third of four qualifiers for our third semi-final to pick our team for 2019! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this even but no one is turned away. We will have a feature performance from Maya Hersh! More about Maya: Originally from New England, Maya Hersh once spent 90 days on a greyhound bus searching for a place with as much rain as possible, and ended up in Seattle. She has competed and coached at an embarrassing number of now defunct national poetry competitions, and has performed on stages across the U.S. and Canada. Maya has self published enough things to have lost count, and has been featured on…

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Free – $5

Free Range Poetry

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

Free Range Poetry presents 2019 Opening Night Smorgasbordal Open Mic Monday, February 4, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland No featured readers. Open mic readers limited to a single poem of no more than two pages of material. If there is time to spare, we’ll go around again starting from the top of the sign-up list. sign up begins 5:30 pm. readings begin 6:00 pm readings end 7:30 pm. Open mic poetry readings the first 30 minutes, followed by Oregon poets reading from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Formerly Verse in Person, now curated by volunteers Diane Corson, John Miller and Dan Encarnacion. Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45 pm at the…

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Free

Grief Rites Readers Series ~ Feb 4

American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

A monthly storytelling showcase about grief, loss and love. Gather in community with others who share grief in all forms and manifestations. Come ready to cry, laugh, listen and hold space for yourself and others. *Trigger warning, because Grief. Content not edited for language or topic. Mature audience. *Venue is accessible; gender-neutral restrooms on premises Readings begin promptly at 7pm. Come early, grab a drink (full bar) and find your seat. Please consider bringing canned goods or cold weather clothing/blankets to donate to the Post 134 food & clothing pantry, which serves local veterans, houseless and anyone in need. ***This month's event will include an open mic, in addition to our curated readers. If you have words to share about your grief, we welcome you.***…

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Free

OPP: Other People’s Poems

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Memorize someone else's poem, and come to the shop to recite it! Starts at 7pm sharp.

Free

One Page Wednesday: February

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Writers, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh work. Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented Portland writers.Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! Doors open at 6:30. Please, no reading from electronic devices. February’s One Page Wednesday‘s featured readers will be Kate Gray and Ashley Tolliver. The evening will be hosted by Natalie Serber. Kate Gray’s first novel, Carry the Sky (Forest Avenue, 2014), takes an unblinking look at bullying. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive (2007) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed chapbooks, Bone-Knowing (2006), winner of the Gertrude Press Poetry Prize and Where…

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Free

Slamlandia February Guilder Slam ft. AM Pressman

Guilder Cafe 2393 NE Fremont St., Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our FEBRUARY Poetry Open Mic and Slam at Guilder! This will be our fourth and final qualifying show to make it into our Grand Slam in March 2019! Compete and place in the top two slots to move onto our Grand Slam! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:00 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 6:30 PM. Guilder 2393 NE Fremont St Portland, OR 97213 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $1-5 suggested donation. We will have an spotlight performance from the awe-inspiring A.M. Pressman! A.M. Pressman is an Indonesian-American comedian and poet living in Richmond, Virginia. Their work has…

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$1 – $5

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. A.M. Pressman

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This slam is the fourth of four qualifiers for our third semi-final to pick our team for 2019! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature performance from A.M. Pressman! More about A.M. Pressman: A.M. Pressman is an Indonesian-American comedian and poet living in Richmond, Virginia. Their work has appeared on Button Poetry, Slamfind, Poictesme, and Write About Now, and explores issues of mixed Asian identity, family, faith, sexuality, gender, and trauma through personal narratives. They are a 2016 Southern Fried Indie Finalist, 2017 WOWPS and IWPS Representative for Washington D.C.'s Beltway Slam, 2017 NPS semi-finalist and most recently placed 2nd in…

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Shut Up and Eat Open Mike

Shut Up and Eat 3848 SE Gladstone St, Portland, OR, United States

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…

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Slamlandia Valentine’s Literary Arts Show ft. Sage Lilac

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on FEBRUARY 14TH for our second Thursday Poetry Open Mic and Slam! This will be our Valentine's Day show! Bring your love poems! Bring your anti-love poems! Bring your heartbreak poems! Bring your odes to how you'd love to marry mac and cheese! Bring your Valentine's Day sucks poems! We're excited to hear them all! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. No door admission. We will have a spotlight performance from the astounding Sage Lilac! Sage Lilac is a trans…

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Tim Whitsel

Angst Gallery 1015 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Hosted by Christopher Luna and Toni Lumbrazo Luna of Printed Matter Vancouver Featuring Tim Whitsel 7 pm Open mic sign up begins at 6:30 and closes at 7 FREE Angst Gallery 1015 Main Street Vancouver, WA 98660 angstgallery.com Food and libation provided by Niche Wine Bar, 1013 Main Street Sound provided by Briz Loan & Guitar: http://briz.us/ LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004 Tim Whitsel believes in the power of dogwood blossoms. He may have migrated west on a solitary bicycle at the age of nineteen. He remembers the cheekbones of the first girl he kissed. He studied with David Waggoner, James Welch and Stanley Plumly at the University of Washington. For six years he curated the Windfall…

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