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Verselandia! East Side Slam

Mt. Hood Community College Theatre 26000 SE Stark Street, Gresham

Literary Arts’ Youth Programs presents the first annual Verselandia! East Side Slam. Cheer on high school students in your community as they perform original poetry in front of a panel of judges. Students from participating East Multnomah County high schools will be competing at this event. Following the same rules as national poetry slams, students must perform original work without props, costumes, or music in front of a panel of judges and a live audience. Using a scale of one to ten, the judges will rate both the performance and the writing of each student. Please note that high school students may use adult language and explore adult themes. This event is free and open to the public. Please share with your community and join…

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Free

QUEER PDXpression

Local Lounge 3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland

Please join us Thursday May 16th at the Local lounge. Sign ups will start at 6:30pm and show is at 7:00 pm. We will have the lovely Andy Lee Anderson as our feature. With a mix authentic vulnerability, relevant truth, and humor, Andy Anderson writes poems that make you want to be their friend. They are author of Hello, My Name is Andy, and their work appears in Deep Overstock Journal. Buy their book at this link: https://www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy Books will also be available at event.

Free

Slamlandia May Picnic PDX Poetry Open Mic

Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Ave, Portland

Join us on MAY 16TH for our third Thursday Poetry Open Mic! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic! Show begins at 7:00 PM Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. $5 suggested donation at door. This show will not have a poetry slam or a featured poet. We ask for just poetry on this mic, no music or stand up comedy. ★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★ The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is a great way to share your wonderful poetry! You can share…

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Free – $5

Poets Rob Schlegel & Jessica Laser

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Rob Schlegel stands among the genderless trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel’s In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (University of Iowa) is a tender search for the mother in the father, the poet in the parent, the forest in the human. Sergei Kuzmich From All Sides (Letter Machine) is the debut collection from Jessica Laser, of which poet Margaret Ross says, "The visceral pleasure one experiences reading these poems corresponds to the depth of their ambition: to fathom human feeling – its contradictions, its infinite shifts – and 'see how full of changes change is.'"

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