A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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A weekly poetry reading series that takes place in Lone Fir Cemetery. Lemon World 8 features poetry by Abby Castillo, Dodd, and Deep Listening with Malcolm *Reading site is visible from the cemetery entrance on the Morrison side across from the Belmont Apartments*
Join us for our SEPTEMBER Poetry Open Mic and Slam at our temporary first Thursday location - the Rocking Frog Cafe! This is a WOWPS qualifying slam! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:00 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 6:30 PM. Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $1-5 suggested donation. We will have an spotlight performance from the superb Stephanie Dogfoot! Stephanie Dogfoot is a queer spoken word poet and stand up comic from Singapore (and a few other places along the way). She has won national slam championships in Singapore (2010)…
Come recite someone else's poem from memory, or just listen. First Fridays 7pm sharp
Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, September 7th, we'll have a feature from David McIntire and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: David McIntire As poetry rarely pays well, David McIntire has taken on numerous occupations over the years including printer, flooring installer, private investigator, delivery boy, factotum, retail manager, warehouse worker, pharmacy technician, Uber driver and roadie. His poetry has been translated into Swedish of all things. David lives in a converted school bus in Portland, Oregon. His first two books, Punk Rock Breakfast and No One Will Believe You are available from International Word Bank and his latest collection, Everything I Write is a Love Song to the World, is…
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 Stephanie Dogfoot! More about Stephanie: Described as “a right-on wordsmith and master of comic poignancy” (Sabotage Reviews), Stephanie Dogfoot is a multi-award winning queer poet who has been writing and performing poetry since 2008. She has performed on stages all over the world, including the Georgetown Literary Festival, Glastonbury Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, and many more. She is a moderator for Singapore Poetry Writing Month and founded and runs a poetry night in Singapore called Spoke & Bird,…
Portland artist Michael Namkung teams up with transformational speaker Kyle Cease for an experiential mind-bending journey through storytelling, poetry and live visual art, in a creative process that breaks down our self-imposed limitations and makes a break for freedom. Beneath the dry surface features of every human life runs a powerful current of creative energy waiting to be expressed out into the world. And while every individual has a unique path, there is only one way forward—to embrace the art of becoming yourself. During intermission and after the show, Kyle will sign copies of his new book, The Illusion of Money: Why Chasing Money is Stopping You from Receiving It, and Michael will sign copies of his book of poetry, Seeing The Invisible. $25 GA…
Atticus Review announces HER ANIMAL INHERITANCE, Vol. 2, a video poem by Tai Woodville, Alissa Hattman, and Sara Jackson-Holman. This FREE show & screening will take place at The Waypost on Sunday, September 8, 2019, starting at 8PM. Siren and the Sea will be opening. Tai Woodville and Alissa Hattman will introduce the film. HER ANIMAL INHERITANCE, Vol. 2, is a collaborative video poem by Tai Woodville, Alissa Hattman & Sara Jackson-Holman created during a three-day artist residency at the historic Sou’Wester lodge in Seaview, Washington. The filmette examines the burden of transgenerational pain, as well as the healing alchemy that can come from solidarity, support, and shared process. Tai Woodville is a Los Angeles born, Portland-based writer, poet, singer-songwriter & conceptual artist. She attended…
Free Range Poetry presents Amy Baskin, Nastashia Minto, Melissa Poulin The SECOND Monday of September Monday, September 9, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland An open mic will precede featured poets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. AMY BASKIN’S recent work has appeared in VoiceCatcher, Cirque and Friends Journal. She is a 2019 Oregon Literary Arts fellow and two-time Willamette Writers Kay Snow Poetry honorable mention recipient. When she is not writing, she matches international students at Lewis & Clark College with local volunteers to help make them feel welcome and at home during their stay. NASTASHIA MINTO has performed at the Unchaste Readers Series, Neon…
Eva Bertoglio Reading
Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens were two of the most important modern American poets. Their collected poems represent distinct and original responses to twentieth century literary modernism and to the culture of their time. And unlike T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, they did not gain early notoriety through radical technique or bold pronouncement. Drawn as they were to the international currents of modernism, they also remained rooted in the American scene and developed their own, deeply personal approaches to becoming modern poets. As they grew as poets and slowly published their work, the value and enormity of their achievement was gradually recognized. Frost was no longer seen as a regional poet of a vanishing rural world, and Stevens was recognized as more than a home-grown…