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Mother Foucault’s 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview

Join us at the 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival at Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, Washington! October 25-27, join publishers, authors, and plain old book lovers for potlucks in the pavilion, readings, workshops, walks by the sea, and maybe even some karaoke at the Sou’wester Lodge and Trailer Park in Seaview, Washington. Featuring: Alejandro de Acosta, John Beer, Gerald Costanzo, Karolinn Fiscaletti, 2019 Airstream Fellow Harrison Harb, Anis Mojgani, Flavia Rocha, Ed Skoog, Rose Swartz. We are proud to announce the Winner of our Poetry Fellowship this year is Harrison Harb! As the 4th Annual Airstream Poetry Fellow, Harrison will spend the week prior to the festival in the Sou’wester’s Potato Bug trailer and share his work at the Saturday night reading. Tickets for the festival: Tickets…

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$20

Dan Raphael in Conversation With Christopher Luna

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

Manything (Unlikely), poet Dan Raphael's 21st book, begins with a description of the Rapture from downtown Portland and ends talking about cosmological babies with a couple universes of experience and imagination in between. Raphael will be joined in conversation by Christopher Luna, author of Message From the Vessel in a Dream.

Free

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Schuyler Peck

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

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This slam is a qualifying slam for the Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals. There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Schuyler Peck! More about Schuyler: Schuyler Peck holds a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner. She is the author of A Field of Blooming Bruises and To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart, among other titles. Her work can also be found in JuxtaProse Magazine, Words Dance, Persephone’s Daughters Magazine, The Rising Phoenix Review, Thought Catalog, Literary Sexts: Volume Two, and Crooked Arrow Press. Schuyler is fascinated with the soft and gentle; the…

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Free – $5
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