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Pride Foundation Literary Fundraiser

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Our annual Pride Foundation (https://pridefoundation.org) Literary Fundraiser, as always, brings an incredible lineup. We’ll be hearing from local LGBTQ-identified authors Amy Schutzer, Nastashia Minto, Stephen O’Donnell, and Gillian Herbert. This is a powerhouse event every year and with these readers, this year will continue the tradition. We’ll hear from all of them, and also hear from and about Pride Foundation, and learn about the important work they do for the LGBTQ community in this part of the country.

Free

Metaphysik – Game Release + Book Signing with DMD and Stevenson

Paxton Gate 4204 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us in celebrating the release of Daniel Martin Diaz's latest Mind Game of Divination entitled Metaphysik with accompanying book by Portland writer, artist, and poet Coleman Stevenson. Copies of the game and DMD's nearly sold out artbook Soul Machine will be available for purchase + signing. The Metaphysik deck by artist Daniel Martin Diaz is a tool for problem solving that helps users engage more deeply with their intuitive and imaginative selves. The cards can be used in a variety of ways, individually or pieced together like a puzzle, to explore different modes of thinking and overcome creative blocks. Metaphysik’s evocative imagery is an invitation to a strange new world where experiences of the mystical in the midst of everyday life inspire users to…

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Free

Last Sunday Writing Workshop

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

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.

Free – $5

Tell Me A Story? #5

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Tell Me A Story? is back at our newish home at Rose City Book Pub for the fifth installment of our series! Please join us Sunday, June 30 from 7-9pm as we welcome work from Sylvia Rodemeyer, John Miller, Kevin Sampsell, Raveena Bhalara, and Matthew Dinaro. As always, this event is free of cost and hosted and curated by Jessica Wadleigh.

Free

The Hour That Stretches: June 30, 2019

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Kertoa Kalevala-based comparative mythologist and oral storyteller Ilana Hamilton returns to the Hour; along with founding supporter/author/gallery artist Justin Montgomery, and two fresh, seething Hour virgins... I mean newcomers... poet Josh Baker, and thrice-newcomer poet in the Hour tradition of many other beloved discoveries, Angela Douglass. Your MC will also be reading another chunk of I AM LESION, since you folks like those bits so much. This mutation has to do with Speed. And what happens when someone notices you sitting on an illness. And how incredible people turn a j-o-b into a j-o-y. 6/30/2019, 7-10 PM, 2505 SE 11th Ave, FORD FOOD AND DRINK. NOMINALLY ALL AGES SHOW, SAFE SPACE, BE MINDFUL. FREE BY DONATION, DONATIONS ENCOURAGED. Come help keep live spoken word alive…

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Free

Black Feminist Summer School (PDX)

PSU Women's Resource Center 1802 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED AT https://forms.gle/ruD6uUWRp8tTQ5ic8 The Black Feminist Summer School is an underground freedom school that explores the teachings of Black Feminist Thought (BFT). This pop-up school will deep-dive into the co-constitutive relationship between pain and pleasure using black feminist texts as theory. In other words, the question I am posing is: what is the bittersweetness of Black Feminism? My hope is that we can intimately explore this question together. Borrowing from Fred Moten, The Black Feminist Summer School (BFSS) will follow this model of study: “When I think about the way we were using the term ‘study,’ I think we were committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing,…

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$10 – $25

The Last Verse

Devil's Den 1510 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

The Last Verse is happening at the Devil's Den on July 5th presented to you by Nova Productions. Join us for a night of music and spoken word where incredibly talented local artists share their amazing works in the intimate environment of our favorite wine shop in town! On July 5th, enjoy the music and poetry from Mr. Monday, A Strange Bird and more! The Den has a huge selection of wines but also beer and cider! This is a 21+ establishment but your puppies are welcome! There is no cover however we have a huge bucket for tips and each dollar

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Dovesong Labs Salon Series 002

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

THE SECOND salon & first of the summer! ft Leigh Nishi-Strattner local poetry legend & international influencer, John Manuel Arias a poetry & prose stunt queen visiting from DC, & Callum Angus, Portland's newest nature fave fiction professor. Leigh Nishi-Strattner is a ghost in a girl-shaped body. Currently, she is haunting a pre-war apartment in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her latest book Bone Honey, published in 2018 by Club Soft Things, is available for purchase online at www.clubsoftthings.com/shop. The way to her heart is a bouquet of freshly cut white florals tied with a ribbon. (That’s a hint). (@ex_waifu on IG) JOHN MANUEL ARIAS is a gay, Costa Rican and Uruguayan poet back in Washington, DC after many years. He is a Canto Mundo…

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Free

SongbookPDX 16

American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

Writers on the songs that terrified and inspired them. Seven writers, seven stories, seven songs, unlimited connections. Writers for Songbook PDX 16: Nastashia Minto Jessica Ann Dena Rash Guzman Debby Dodds Joshua James Amberson Andrew Fort Adam Strong

Free

Tin House Summer Workshop Readings: Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jamel Brinkley, and Kaveh Akbar

Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

8:00 pm, Cerf Amphitheater – Signing to Follow Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jamel Brinkley, Kaveh Akbar Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon, and Guernica, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco, and works with…

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