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Filament’s October Reading Featuring Alicia Jo Rabins

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

Join us for Filament's October reading, with special guest Alicia Jo Rabins! We have a new cast of talented MFA readers in addition to Alicia, and we're delighted to be back at the IPRC this autumn. "Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life. Rabins’ first collection of poetry, Divinity School, won the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her second collection, Fruit Geode, was published in October 2018 by Augury Books/Brooklyn Arts Press. As a musician and performer, Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about the…

Free

Fall 2019 Seasonal Workshop w/ Domi Shoemaker & Daniel Elder

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Workshop Leader: Domi Shoemaker. Co-Facilitator: Daniel Elder This fall, come on a new adventure with Corporeal Writing. Lidia has been offered an incredible opportunity that will take her out of town and deep into her writing all autumn long, so she’s leaving a pair of seasonal workshops in the trusted hands of Domi Shoemaker and Daniel Elder.Domi has been co-facilitating workshops with Lidia since the birth of Corporeal Writing , and Daniel has been writing with and learning from both Lidia and Domi for the four years that he has called Portland home. Together, using prompts and methods learned from Lidia as well as devised on their own, these two writers will take you deep into the richness of metaphor. Color. Changes in light, leaves, life. Meditation. Observation. In this generative workshop…

$275