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Online: One Page Wednesday – APRIL

Online N/A, 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 writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! April’s One Page featured readers are YOU. Literary Arts is taking One Page online! Hosted by Natalie Serber. The Zoom call is limited to 75 participants.  At least 20 people will be invited to read for four minutes. Click here to join Wednesday, April 1 at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time. You do NOT need a Zoom account to log on to a Zoom meeting. You don’t need to live in…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings, presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev, continue as an internet radio show on Shady Pines Radio. Huge thanks to Shady Pines Media for providing us with this platform to share our poetry. Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. To submit your audio recordings of poems for our show send them to wordlightspoetry@gmail.com. Please introduce yourself, tell the listeners how to find your work online and read a poem or two, under 7 minutes. You can also submit your poetry albums to our collection to feature on the radio, if you do, please include a link where your album can be…

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A Virtual Open Mic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our first ever Virtual Open Mic! We will make a post on the day of the event for folks to sign up! You will have 3 minutes to read a poem! This event will be held on Zoom. We will post a link 15 minutes before the event for folks to join. You do not need video or microphone capabilities to watch but you do need at least a microphone in order to read. Since this will be our first go at this, there may be some kinks to work out so be patient. We are hoping to do a slam and have features in the future.

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Stay Home Stay Queer

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us Thursday April 30th for our Stay Home Stay Queer edition of Queer PDXpression . We will be using zoom to try to bring everyone together . if you are needing a safe space to get away from all the crazy things happening in life, or if you just need to say f*ck we are here for you. We will announce the room id and password the day of the event, and if you need any help downloading or getting into the room just message us and we will love to help. Sign up starts at 7:30 pm and show starts at 7:45ish

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings! On May 2nd, among others we'll broadcast poems sent in by Greg Bee, Alejandro Jimenez & Jacqueline Suskin! Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings, presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev, continue as an internet radio show on Shady Pines Radio. Huge thanks to Shady Pines Media for providing us with this platform to share our poetry. --- We will be pre-recording the shows on Wednesdays to air on Saturday, since our first two live shows have been prone to tech glitches—so send in your recordings early. Thank you! --- To…

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A Second Virtual Open Mic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our first ever Virtual Open Mic! We will make a post on the day of the event for folks to sign up! You will have 3 minutes to read a poem! This event will be held on Zoom. We will post a link 15 minutes before the event for folks to join. You do not need video or microphone capabilities to watch but you do need at least a microphone in order to read. Since this will be our second go at this, there may be some kinks to work out still so be patient. We are hoping to do a slam and have features in the future.

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Last Stand at Wildwood Saloon Poetry Open Mic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

First Monday open mic poetry show featuring the unimmitatable Jason Kastrup. Host of the fabulous Aural Pleasure showcase! Here is the link to watch. https://getvokl.com/live-broadcast/Last-Stand-at-Wildwood-3

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Online: One Page Wednesday May

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! Hosted by Natalie Serber. At least 20 people will be invited to read for four minutes. Click Here to sign up in advance for this event After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Natalie Serber is the author of a memoir, Community Chest, and a story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a summer reading selection from O, the Oprah Magazine, and an Oregonian Top 10 Book of the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has appeared in The…

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Slamlandia May 7th Poetry Open Mic ft. John-Francis Quiñonez

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We are pleased to announce that Slamlandia will be hosting another digital poetry open mic this month - with a feature from John-Francis Quiñonez! This open mic - only poetry, no music please - will take place on May 7th. We'll be hosting this event with the help of Literary Arts. We're going to be changing up just a little how this one will work, so here's a run down: :::THREE DAYS BEFOREHAND::: -- On Monday, we will make a post about the Zoom link. You can reach out to us via email ( slamlandia@gmail.com ) or DMs, and we will send you the Zoom link for our Thursday chatroom. You can reach out to us anytime from Monday to Thursday. :::DAY OF::: -- 6:30pm…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings. You can submit your poetry as an audio recording to us. In the audio recording, please introduce yourself, tell listeners where to find your work online and any other message you want to share, and of course your poems. If you have any virtual events you are a part of feel free to share how to find them. Please make the recording up to 7 minutes and give about 5 seconds of silence at the start and at the end of the recording. Send the recording to wordlightspoetry@gmail.com and if there are any links you want…

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