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An afternoon with poets Willa Schneberg + Marilyn Stablein

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Poets Willa Schneberg + Marilyn Stablein will read on Saturday November 2nd at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop.   Marilyn will read from her new books, Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu (Chin Music Press, June 2019) and Milepost 27 (Black Heron Press, April 2019).   Willa would read from her essay entitled “Where Guests are gods: A Poet’s Sojourn in Kathmandu,” published in Calyx: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women as well as from poems she wrote this summer at the Mudhouse Residency in Crete.   Willa Schneberg is a poet, ceramic sculptor, curator, and psychotherapist in private practice. She has authored five poetry collections including: Box Poems; In The Margins of The World, recipient of the Oregon Book Award; Storytelling…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Allegra White

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, November 2nd, we'll have a feature from Allegra White and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Allegra White Allegra White is a writer based in Portland, OR. Allegra's chapbook of poetry On The Backs Of Product Request Forms (2019) explores themes of escapism and humor in the mundane. She studied English Literature at Cal State Northridge and is an avid rock climber. She currently paints billboards in Portland for work and writes and climbs in her free time. *** Sign-ups start at 5:30, show starts at 6PM. On first and third Saturdays each performer in the open mic gets 10 minutes, there are only 8 slots…

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Fur Not Light Party & Reading

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland

To celebrate the publication of Jeff Alessandrelli's second poetry collection Fur Not Light Cardinal Club will be hosting a post-Halloween party/reading with some of Jeff's friends who helped him shape/edit the book. Special drinks and foodstuffs inspired by Fur Not Light will be for sale and free (chocolate) cake will also be available. This will be the international literary event of the decade. Fur Not Light press blurbicle: Taking its inspiration from the work of Russian Absurdist authors such as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, Fur Not Light interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. Incorporating serial poems such as “Nothing of the Month Club” and “December 32nd,” as well as the long ideogram-based work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in…

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