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Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland

Please join us on May 30th at Crush Bar. Sign ups 6:30 pm Show 7:00 pm $5 dollar suggested donation. All proceeds go towards Bryony Blazes chap book. We are honored to have two features. Xesxa Depentes is a poet and performer living in Portland, OR. it’s the author of the chapbook crying in the sun (txt books, 2017). its work has been published in the recluse, the poetry project newsletter and on the poetry foundation’s harriet blog. Trenna Sharpe is a poet from Tennessee, currently living and writing in Portland, Oregon. Her poems appear in the The Heart's Many Doors, The Tangerine, 5:2:One Magazine, Industrial Lunch, Poetry Miscellany, Incessant Pipe, and The Lifeboat. She's a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for…

Free – $5