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Contemporary Brazilian Poetry at Portland State

Portland State University - Fariborz Maseeh Hall 1855 SW Broadway, Portland

This Thursday, PSU presents the poets Rodrigo Bravo and Flavia Rocha, along with translator Sean Nagus. They will read from their own work and also participate in a discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature. The presentation is free and open to the public. Rodrigo Bravo is a translator and researcher in Linguistics with emphasis in translation of poetic discourse, comparative literature and stychology. Lecturer at the graduate school of music at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, he develops his doctoral research at the Graduate School of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at USP. Curator of the TransFormações exposition, at Casa das Rosas (SP) (2017), he also serves as a member of the editorial board of the literary series Neûron at Editora Córrego. Bravo authored academic essays, articles and the books Ernesto na Torre…

Free

Small Press Residency – Propeller Books

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland

Rocking Frog Cafe & NovaPDX present the Small Press Residency program. Every month, meet the people from local small press publishers involved in making great books. During the residency you can purchase the featured press’ books at Rocking Frog Cafe and meet the people behind them. This month our featured press is Propeller Books (www.propellerbooks.com). Join us on Thursday, November 21st, for the last event for Propeller Books small press residency, hosted by Lucas Bernhardt, the guests for this evening are: Daneen Bergland, Ally Harris, and Harper Quinn. ~ Lucas Bernhardt holds MAs in English and in Writing from Portland State University, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He manages the Portland State University Writing Center and is…

Free

Slamlandia November Literary Arts Show ft. Desmond Spann

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

Join us on NOVEMBER 21ST for a Thursday Poetry Open Mic and Slam! This is a qualifying slam to get into our WOWPS finals at the start of next year. Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. No door admission. We will have a feature from the fantastic Desmond Spann! ★ •*´¨`*• 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…

Free

Alicia Jo Rabins + Martha Silano: A Poetry Reading

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, ritualist and Torah teacher. She is the author of poetry books Divinity School (2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode (finalist for the 2018 Jewish Book Award), and has released three albums with Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about Biblical women. Rabins lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their two small children. www.aliciajo.com Martha Silano’s newest poetry collection is Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books 2019). Previous collections include The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception and Reckless Lovely, both from Saturnalia Books. Martha teaches at Bellevue College, near her home in Seattle, WA. marthasilano.net

Free

Spare Room reading: Bravo, Rocha, & Negus

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland

An evening of Brazilian poetry in Portuguese & English with RODRIGO BRAVO FLÁVIA ROCHA SEAN NEGUS RODRIGO BRAVO holds a Master’s in Linguistics with a background in Classics and Hebrew Studies at the University of São Paulo. He is a translator and researcher in linguistics with emphasis in translation of poetic discourse, comparative literature, and stychology. Lecturer at the graduate school of music at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, he develops his doctoral research at the Graduate School of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at USP. Curator of the TransFormações exposition, at Casa das Rosas (SP) (2017), he also serves as a member of the editorial board of the literary series Neûron at Editora Córrego. Bravo authored academic essays, articles and the books Ernesto na Torre de…

Free

5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland

Thursday 11/21 7:30pm @cardinalclub presents the next edition of 5x5 featuring the poetic musings of @queenofcalcium @katslarue @michellerayeoh @futureeva @justinwsant Stop by and say hi

Free