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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Literary Arts and Ooligan Press (part of Portland State’s graduate program in Book Publishing) partner to present the third Oregon Writers of Color Spring Showcase. This event will feature many of Oregon’s most talented, diverse writers and is designed to connect these artists with the publishers seeking to hear their voices. The evening’s host will be Anis Mojgani.
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).
Featured writers: Christopher Ryan Gonzalez, Marissa Korbel, Erika Worth
A casual monthly reading to help you forget all that other sh*t. Now in its new home at Mother Foucault’s, 3rd Wednesdays after May (because this is the 4th Wednesday).
(This is a remake for it to be a public event!) Hi Portland Fam! To celebrate the opening of the Belmont HMart, the folks at High/Low Art Space and I are organizing an AAPI literary reading! Come enjoy an Armful of Words with a handful of writers!! There will be light snacks purchased direct from the HMart! There will be more art on the walls, like this amazing tiger by Conner Choi. Plus work by Seungdo Hyun. This is a space for building community, art, and solidarity. Bring your friends! Friday May 24 6pm Suggested donation $0 - $10 High/Low Art Space 936 SE 34th Ave
Three contributors to Old Pal, Jac Nelson, Rose Swartz, and Jenessa Vanzutphen, read from their work across genres at a friendly, private residence. All are welcome to join! Please email editors@oldpalmag.com for the address. You can find our readers' work in Issue 2 of Old Pal and / or learn more about them below. JAC NELSON is a multimedia poet living between the ancestral lands of the Nisqually people (at Puget Sound) and of the Očeti Šakówiŋ (at the Minnesota River). Their work begins with art and artist as ethical questions that emerge from inherited context: ancestry, language, land, trauma, coercion, and decision activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Jac continues to learn about, engage with, and resist the ways they benefit…
Celebrating year 19 of the Portland Zine Symposium, PZS will be releasing our fundraiser anthology, on the theme "Mistakes". Come buy a zine and support PZS! Readers To Be Announced doors at 6:30 // readers promptly at 7 bring money for a zine or to donate to PZS // NOTAFLOF
Last Sunday @ The Stacks will be powered by Dovesong Labs, and your workshop instructor will be jayy dodd. These workshops are available to all on a drop-in basis and all skill levels are welcome. The workshop will begin with some instruction and presentation by the workshop leader, and there will also be time to write, so please bring your pen/paper/laptop/typewriter. $5 suggested donation.
Portland virtuoso poet and spoken word favorite Christopher Luna. Witch Mountain drummer and Weird Fiction savant Nathan Carson. Ford gallery luminary and Hour favorite, poet Alexandria Levin. Special Mystery guest. And your MC, reading a piece that's going in Weirdbook magazine over across the pond, "Give Me The Roses While I Live." Come help keep live spoken word alive in Portland and keep this read going. Bring everyone. FORD FOOD AND DRINK, 2505 SE 11TH. SUNDAY MAY 26. FREE BY DONATION, DONATIONS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. NOMINALLY ALL AGES, SO BE MINDFUL. SAFE SPACE.
For our first post-AWP Whitenoise Project event we are excited to announce a reading at Tryst, a WoC-owned bar and restaurant in Old Town! (also, our second ever reading on the west side and first in a while) We are also welcoming visiting poet and professor Jason Magabo Perez, who brings his first full-length collection, This is for the Mostless. https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2018/03/apertures-wishes-and-questions Featuring: Jessica Yen Beth Haworth-Kaufka Hannah Kim Ie Agcaoili Jason Magabo Perez ADA Accessible and All Ages! $5-10 suggested donation to help support the artists No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The Whitenoise Project is a reading and discussion series aiming to center voices from underrepresented / erased communities (Black and Indigenous people and/or PoC, Women and Femmes of Color,…