A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Join us on November 21 to hear BFA students and faculty read from their work! Free and open to all. 🌲☔️🎤✏️ Featuring: Gretchen Adams, Lily Lamadrid, Sam Miller, Anna Stein, and Missi Jarrar. With readings by BFA Faculty: Justin Hocking and Gabe Urza Smith 238
Free Youth 10-24* Thursday, November 21st, 6-8pm Mind & Mouth writing workshops are back! Depending on the week, these workshops will be led by our Mind & Mouth facilitator Briauna, our rad youth collective member David, or other folks in the community! Check specific dates for details! Details for this specific date TBA, but the leader will be Briauna! *Sign-in and enrollment are required. Enrollment (open only to folks 10-24) is required for the majority of our programming. If you're a young person, you should enroll! It’s free! For more details check out our enrollment page!
To mark the occasion of the bicentennial of Herman Melville’s birth (August 1st, 1819), John Arcudi has brought together fifty-seven world renowned artists and their gorgeous, brand new illustrations for Moby Dick, Bartleby, Pierre, The Confidence Man, Typee, Billy Budd, and White Jacket, as well as excerpts from Melville’s letters. A short passage from Melville’s writing accompanies each illustration, giving context to the story. Artists include Matt Kish, Dave Malan, Hunt Emerson, Evan Cagle, Brahm Revel, Ryan Sook, and Cosimo Miorelli. John Arcudi is a Portland comic book writer, best known for his work on The Mask and B.P.R.D. and for his series Major Bummer; his most recent work, Rumble, is illustrated by David Rubin and published by Portland-based Image Comics. The son of a…