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Fall Five-Minute Reading Marathon

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland

Join us for the Fall Five-Minute Reading Marathon! All afternoon, between 1-6pm, a series of fabulous local writers will get up on stage and read for five minutes. Stay for one or two, or all afternoon. 1:30 — Leni Zumas 2pm — Elizabeth Pickard 2:30pm — Aaron Gilbreath 3pm — Harold Johnson 3:15pm — Stevan Allred 3:30pm — Nikki Schulak 3:45pm — Missy Ladygo 4pm — Michael Keefe 4:15pm — Liz Prato 4:30pm — Liz Scott 4:45pm — Kalimah Abioto 5pm — Beth Wood 5:15pm — Laura Lampton Scott 5:30pm — jayy dodd 5:45pm — Alexa Weinstein

Free

A Change of Light and other observations

Fuller Rosen Gallery 2505 SE 11th Ave Suite 106, Portland

A Change of light and other observations a solo exhibition of new work by Sammie Cetta Opening reception Saturday September 14, 2019 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Cetta’s work in A Change of Light and other observations is a welcomed intermission from the deluge of contemporary imagery and provides a quiet place for the viewer to imagine their own potential. True to the artists preoccupation with the sky, the space for possibility begins at the horizon line; where the earth and sky dissolve into one another. In a series of 12 letterpress prints, Cetta appoints text written by Julio Cortázar as a jumping off point filled with hope and discovery. A Change of Light and other observations is a suite of prints produced during…

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Spare Room reading: Lindsey Boldt, Sara Jaffe, & Steve Orth

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland

$5 suggested donation for the readers (no one turned away for lack of funds) Lindsey Boldt's most recent publications include: Some Ennui (Portable Press @ Yo Yo Labs, 2019), <<(( ))>> (Couch Press, 2016), and Overboard (Publication Studio Portland, 2012). Her poems, essays, and stories have been published by Wolfman New Life Quarterly, Art Practical, The Drunken Boat, and The Poetry Foundation's blog, Harriet. With Steve Orth, she co-wrote and produced the plays "Dating by Consensus," "Escape from Century Hills," and "The Reading." She lives in Olympia, Washington on Squaxin and Nisqually land. Sara Jaffe is a writer living in Portland, OR. Her first novel, Dryland, was published by Tin House Books in September 2015. Her short fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared or are…

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