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Corporeal Writing Online – Soma & Sense w/ Brigid Yuknavitch: 4/28/19

Online N/A, Portland

STARTS: 4/28/19 WHERE: Online, for 6-weeks LEADER: Brigid Yuknavitch COST: $350 Soma and Sense These experiments are in writing process. Each follows symbols you encounter through your sensing body. Somatic experiences hold imagery and stories. We all have different modalities that are strongest in our imaginations and psyches. Our individual and collective poetics can show up in the ways we dream. One sense may be stronger for you than another, like smell or taste, and carry your memory and imagination far (as Marcel Proust explored). Some senses are earlier than others like smell and hearing. Shamans journey and experience extraordinary reality in different sensory modalities. Some people hear a voice to write, and others find their process in images, or rhythms. And, working in more…

$350

Poetry Month Party!

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland

Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month! We will be partying to honor all the writing we've done this month and all the writing we have yet to do! This will be an informal gathering with pot-lucking, open-micing, writing games and other social to semi-social activities. Bring your poetry, your pens and your snacks (labeled for ingredients please!) Our friends at De-Canon: A Visibility Project are allowing us to use their beautiful space which is ADA accessible. If you need other accommodations to attend the event, please reach out to PDX Poetry Fest and we will do our best to help. Be sure to go to address: 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR 97213. That’s the De-Canon entrance door to get in (not the Milepost…

Free

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Bella

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Bella! More about Bella: Bella is Southern California grown, and found herself in Portland after a few things went wrong, or completely right if you ask her now! Her poetry centers around her experiences being a woman of color, abusive relationships, her eating disorder, and the hope in between it all. She likes breakfast for lunch or dinner because she is a rebel. She has also always wanted to feature at Portland Poetry Slam so woooooo!! We will be at our venue, Tiny's Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is…

Free – $5