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Family Poetry Circle

Multnomah County Library - Holgate Library 7905 SE Holgate Boulevard, Portland

Bring the whole family for a celebration of poetry during National Poetry Month. Local poets will read poems geared toward both adults and children. Take home a poem to learn by heart together! About the poets: Melissa Reeser Poulin writes poems and essays. Her new chapbook, Rupture, Light (Finishing Line Press 2019) is a collection of poems about motherhood and growth. More at https://melissareeserpoulin.com. Caitlin Dwyer is a writer from Portland. Her poetry has appeared in Talking River, the Notre Dame Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Quiddity, Thrush, and others. She writes poetry, literary journalism, essays, and occasionally science fiction. First come, first served. View this event on our website: https://multcolib.org/events/family-poetry-circle/99690

Free

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…

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$200

Wendy Willis and David Biespiel

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland

Wendy Willis is a poet and essayist from Portland, Oregon. She is also the Founder and Director of Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a program of the National Policy Consensus Center (in the Hatfield School of Government) at Portland State University and the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, a global network of organizations and leading scholars working in the field of deliberation and public engagement. Her next book of essays, These are Strange Times, My Dear, was released in February. Her last book of poems, A Long Late Pledge, is a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Award. David Biespiel is the author of eleven books, including Republic Café, published in 2019, The Education of a Young Poet, which was selected a Best Books for…

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