Orpheus 2019 Night Two
Fort Vancouver High School 5700 East 18th Street, VancouverFeatured writers: Jude Brewer, Omar El Akkad, Jewels Pedersen, Laura Moulton, Ben Parzybok.
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Poetry & Prose
Free Community Reading and Book Release Party
First United Methodist Church PDX 1838 SW Jefferson St, PortlandJoin us to celebrate the release of our 56th anthology featuring the talented writers from our spring workshops for adults in recovery, youth experiencing homelessness, adults living in affordable housing and many others. Few Portland events include so many diverse voices! At this event we are also celebrating Write Around Portland's 20th birthday and our 20 years of writers! We’ll have cake and an anthology retrospective to share featuring writers from 1999 to today! The reading is free, ADA-accessible and open to all. Books will be available for purchase. Free guided playtime for children is provided. These readings are funded in part by generous support from: Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, Hillsboro Arts & Culture Council and Multnomah County Cultural Coalition. For…
Free
Reading: Sacred Stone, Sacred Water
Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, PortlandAnnie Bloom's welcomes six contributors from Sacred Stone, Sacred Water: Women Writers & Artists Encounter Ireland: book editor Carolyn Brigit Flynn, June BlueSpruce, Jean Mahoney, Sarojani Rohan, Linda Serrato, and Jessica Webb. This elegant and intimate collection of writing, art, and photography evokes Ireland's wild beauty and deep soul through the work of 14 American women writers and artists at some of the island's most eminent sacred sites. Their journey produced exquisite poetry, photographs, drawings, and essays from visits to three renowned parts of Ireland. They explored world-famous Newgrange and ancient monastic sites in the Boyne Valley, and experienced the rising sun enter the 5,000-year-old passage mound at Lough Crew. In the scenic southwest, they traveled the world-renowned Healy Pass and the Ring of Beara,…
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Portland Review Launch
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, PortlandEach year Portland Review hosts a spring reading in celebration of student editors who are graduating and the incoming cohort of new editors. This reading will feature alumnus and current students of the PSU Creative Writing MFA, as well as contributors featured in the 2019 issue Unchartable. Featuring: Ed Skoog Margot Kahn Case Genevieve Hudson A.M. Rosales Genevieve Hudson is the author of the forthcoming novel Boys of Alabama (W.W. Norton/Liveright), the memoir-hybrid A Little in Love with Everyone (Fiction Advocate, 2018), and the story collection Pretend We Live Here (Future Tense Books, 2018), which is a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Award finalist. Her writing has been published in Catapult, McSweeney’s, Hobart, Tin House online, Joyland, No Tokens, Bitch, The Rumpus, and other places. Her work has…
Free
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