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Trans Voices Fringe Fest

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

This showcase features independent trans and genderqueer artists exhibiting nontraditional and unconventional vocal expressions. Organized by A Stick And A Stone! LINEUP: Cohabitation of Breaths - Abigail J Hansel of Yolk Sauna & June T Sanders (trans femme audio-visual ambient noise duo from "Idaho") Porch Cat (grunge-y pop punk / riot grrrl from "Bellingham") Sibila (industrial dancey synthy noise en español from "Olympia") DJ Vu (improv / experimental / noise from "Olympia") ChrisTiana Obeysummer (spoken word from "Seattle") Mx. Valentino (jazz-folk-punk) Robert Torres (poetry / spoken word) Sefer Raziel (glitch / noise / performance art) Myllo Mae (performance art) Dreams (synthy gay electronic beat rock) A Stick And A Stone (haunting choral experimentations) & More TBA In conjunction with TVF 2019 (a festival of trans…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Pamela K. Santos

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday September 28th, we'll have a feature from Pamela K. Santos, two mini-features from Michelle Ruiz Keil & Jennifer Dawson, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Pamela K. Santos Pamela K. Santos is a writer and conceptual artist weaving multilingual narratives from diasporic lineages. A 2019 recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation award, Oregon Literary Fellowship, and Mineral School residency, her poetry appears in Tayo Magazine, Anomaly, Newtown Literary, Stoked Words, and the Unchaste Anthology. Pamela co-founded Portland’s Winter Poetry Festival (its second year coming this December). You can find more information about Pamela at pamelaksantos.com and follow her on Instagram at @fistsofmanilamae and on Facebook…

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Book Launch for Stella Jeng Guillory’s An Advancing Glacier

Angst Gallery 1015 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Book Launch Celebration for Stella Jeng Guillory’s An Advancing Glacier 6pm September 28, 2019 Angst Gallery 1015 Main Street Vancouver, WA 98660 angstgallery.com In our era of retreating glaciers, Stella Jeng Guillory’s An Advancing Glacier is refreshing. The first and title poem opens “I capture your chill/ I nurture your chill/ I rapture your chill” and through the rest of the chapbook the poet does indeed capture details, nurture appreciation, and open us to rapture. We travel across many continents but these are not just tourist accounts decorated with exotic flowers. Each poem is precise and deeply personal. Grandmother chews food “small and fine./ She feeds me,/ mouthful by mouthful.” The reader will also be fed. – Penelope Scambly Schott Born in China and raised…

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Chris Gonzalez

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

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 Chris Gonzalez! More about Chris: Chris Gonzalez is an educator, journalist, playwright, poet, musician, and creative-collaborator based in Portland, Oregon. Chris has been a featured poet for the past six years, performing alongside International Slam Champions Saul Williams and Shane Koyczan. Chris’s first book of poetry, water or bread, was published in 2018 by Human Error Press. We will be at our venue, Tiny's Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is welcome. We do not…

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Free – $5

Poetry Reading: Gary Lark, Jessica Mehta, Hannah Larrabee

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Airlie Press poets Gary Lark, Jessica Mehta, and Hannah Larrabee. Oregon poet Gary Lark will read from his new collection, Ordinary Gravity. These haunting poems drop you into a world of logging towns of western Oregon in the fifties and sixties—a way of life undergoing change—with forays into the small towns, the woods, and on the rivers. Gary Lark is a keen, elegiac witness to the people in this world and the generation marked by the Vietnam War, and their hard-won wisdom and ironies. These poems and people "enrich the thin life of this planet," as the title poem states. In life, one shouldn't presume too much, but there are gains—"All you have to do is brave the thorns." A lifelong Oregonian,…

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OPP – Other People’s Poems!

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Come recite someone else’s poem from memory, or just listen. First Fridays 7pm sharp (First Wednesday in October, exceptionally)

Free

Slamlandia Oct. Cider Riot Slam ft. Shanna & Michael Alden

Cider Riot 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our OCTOBER Poetry Open Mic and Slam at our new first Thursday location - Cider Riot! This is a WOWPS qualifying slam! This show will be 21+ - if you are under 21 years old, we have shows in other locations we'd love to have you come out to! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM. Cider Riot 807 NE Couch Street Portland, OR 97232 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 wonderful duo, Shanna & Michael Alden! Michael Alden has spent…

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Poetry Reading: Sara Quinn Rivara and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Sara Quinn Rivara and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet to read from their latest collections. Animal Bride is the second collection of poems from Portland poet Sara Quinn Rivara. "'Not the drowned girl but the swimming one, ' Rivara writes in Animal Bride. These poems are written at the crossroads of womanhood: to be a woman in captivity or a woman breaking free. Like a 21st century Persephone, the woman at the heart of Animal Bride journeys out of the underworld of a violent marriage to find strength in her animal self. Bride, wife, mother, lover--Rivara wrestles with many forms of being female, and summons the natural elements of fire and ice, air and water, to become a shapeshifter. I found myself…

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Mother Foucault’s: Arthur / Barclay / Kuipers / Toliver

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

A poetry reading by James Arthur, Adèle Barclay, Keetje Kuipers, and Ashley Toliver. Canadian-American poet JAMES ARTHUR is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. ADÈLE BARCLAY’s writing has appeared in The…

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