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Local Lounge 3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us Thursday May 16th at the Local lounge. Sign ups will start at 6:30pm and show is at 7:00 pm. We will have the lovely Andy Lee Anderson as our feature. With a mix authentic vulnerability, relevant truth, and humor, Andy Anderson writes poems that make you want to be their friend. They are author of Hello, My Name is Andy, and their work appears in Deep Overstock Journal. Buy their book at this link: https://www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy Books will also be available at event.

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Slamlandia May Picnic PDX Poetry Open Mic

Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on MAY 16TH for our third Thursday Poetry Open Mic! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic! Show begins at 7:00 PM Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. $5 suggested donation at door. This show will not have a poetry slam or a featured poet. We ask for just poetry on this mic, no music or stand up comedy. ★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★ The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is a great way to share your wonderful poetry! You can share…

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Free – $5

Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by Nova PDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday May 18th, we'll have a feature from Julia Gaskill and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Julia Gaskill is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. When she’s not hosting Slamlandia, she can be found performing on the Portland Poetry Slam stage, exploring the Pacific Northwest, or walking your dog. Julia has competed in IWPS, WOWPS, and NPS throughout 2016 - 2018, and she was the Portland Poetry Slam rep at WOWPS 2018 in Dallas, TX. Her work has been featured on FreezeRay Poetry, Ink&Nebula, Slam Find, Write About Now, Rising Phoenix Review, and Voicemail Poems. It goes without saying that she loves Muppets more…

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Street Books presents: A Celebration of the Book

Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join Street Books at City Hall to celebrate reading and community! Bring a book you would like to see on Portland's street library. Enjoy tasty snacks & beverages and participate in an open mic (read a paragraph from your favorite book).

Free

Objection! Poetry Slam 2019

Lagunitas Community Room 237 NE Broadway St #300, Portland, OR, United States

The YLS Service to the Public Committee, in association with Literary Arts, invites you to the Second Annual Objection! Poetry Slam. The theme is "Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society" and the event is open to participants ages 13-22 who would like to perform a poem expressing their views. The local and talented Alex Dang will be emceeing the slam and hosting a creative writing workshop at the beginning of the event. And there will be free food, beverages, and cash prizes! Attendance is free, no RSVP required. We hope you join us for a night of creative thought and performance. Details and rules at https://mbabar.org/calendar/2019-05-24/objection-poetry-slam-2019.html

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Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by Nova PDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday May 25th, we'll have a feature from Bella, two mini features from Bri G & Nastashia Minto, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Bella Bella is Southern California grown, and found herself in Portland after a few things went wrong, (or completely right if you ask her now). She began writing poetry in 2017 after watching a slam performance that was supposed to inspire her not to give up after almost getting evicted out of her apartment (she didn’t get evicted, so the inspiration worked). The first time she performed was in 2018, at Portland Poetry Slam. Her poetry centers around her experiences being…

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Sage Lilac

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!!! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Sage Lilac! More about Sage: Sage Lilac is a trans poet and heavy metal vocalist based out of Portland, OR. She got her start in poetry just after high school by winning both the SpeakNOW Poetry Slam in 2012 and then the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition in 2013. Since then, she has lead many after school programs and in-school residencies through the Nature of Words literary center, shared the stage with renowned performance poet Buddy Wakefield, has had her poems arranged for performance by opera singers, been a PDX Grand Slam finalist…

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Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us on May 30th at Crush Bar. Sign ups 6:30 pm Show 7:00 pm $5 dollar suggested donation. All proceeds go towards Bryony Blazes chap book. We are honored to have two features. Xesxa Depentes is a poet and performer living in Portland, OR. it’s the author of the chapbook crying in the sun (txt books, 2017). its work has been published in the recluse, the poetry project newsletter and on the poetry foundation’s harriet blog. Trenna Sharpe is a poet from Tennessee, currently living and writing in Portland, Oregon. Her poems appear in the The Heart's Many Doors, The Tangerine, 5:2:One Magazine, Industrial Lunch, Poetry Miscellany, Incessant Pipe, and The Lifeboat. She's a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for…

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Free – $5

Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by Nova PDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday June 1st, we'll have a feature from Jane Belinda and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Jane Belinda is a queer jewish poet from Portland, Oregon. They are the Slammaster of Portland Poetry Slam! They write on subjects of grief, queerness, gender, and jewish identity. They have competed nationally at the Individual World Poetry Slam and was on finals stage at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Dallas in 2017. *** Sign-ups start at 5:30, show starts at 6PM. On first and third Saturdays each performer in the open mic gets 10 minutes, there are only 8 slots available and the list order…

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Raggedy Andey

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!!! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Raggedy Andey! More about Raggedy Andey: Raggedy Andey is a poet and spoken-word artist born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. Her poetry ranges from feminist slam poetry to dark metaphorical prose to intense self-reflection which has always been the role of writing in her life. She is the Santa Cruz Legendary Collective’s Co-Slam Master and Grand Slam Champion of 2015 through 2018. Competing in the National Poetry Slam (2015) and Southwest Shoot Out (2018), in which she won the independent competition, as well as taking first place with the Legendary Team overall.…

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