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Poetry Workshop w/ Zachary Schomburg

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland

Come join Zachary Schomburg this spring at Outlet for a six week Poetry workshop. This will be a generative poetry workshop for poets at all levels. The main focus will be to sustain a poetry writing practice for six weeks with access to a small group of focused readers. After each workshop, Zachary will give the group a prompt/assignment to complete for the week, one that addresses some aspect of poetry writing brought up in your group conversations. The participants will spend the beginning of the following week's workshop discussing your experiences with the assignment. The workshop will be capped at 6 people, so everyone will get about 20 minutes of focused group discussion of their own new work at each meeting. The class will meet once per…

$200

Morgan Parker

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

From Morgan Parker, breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. Magical Negro (Tin House) is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns.

Free