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The Work Poetry Workshop with Christopher Luna: Saturday Edition

Niche Wine Bar 1013 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

“Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.” ― Allen Ginsberg, “Memory Gardens” (Fall of America, City Lights) Join us on Saturday, November 16 for The Work, a monthly poetry writing workshop at Niche Wine Bar led by Christopher Luna. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion, and sparks the shifts in consciousness which can lead to healing, personal growth, and an interest in fighting for progressive social change. I look forward to sharing my passion for poetry with you. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. We will read and discuss poetry, and write several new poems together from 11:30-2:00. Doors open…

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Free – $20

WORDS AND PICTURES : A workshop w/ Anis Mojgani

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

So much of writing poetry is a combination of putting together different elements, whether congruous or not, to see what their juxtaposition creates in the imagination of the reader; of deciding what to put on the page and what to leave absent; and how these decisions give space for readers to become an active part of what they are reading. What happens when we add pictures into the mix, whether simple or complex ones? What poetic spaces in the writer and reader are created with these combinations? What sort of poems become poems when words and pictures are put together? Writing poetry often begins simply by letting something from inside unfurl untethered to reveal its shape to you, and then picking up to see what it…

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$25

Wordlights Poetry ft. Avery Gadling

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, November 16th, we'll have a feature from Avery Gadling and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Avery Gadling Avery Gadling is a southern transplant whose accent was lost along the way here. They love their homemade family, Magic, and their four legged toddler. (Who is in all ways, much cooler than he is) In his spare time, Avery can often be found writing, drawing and creating impossible things. Avery released his first chapbook Kitchen WItchin shortly after winning a spot on the 2019 PPS slam team. In it you will find recipes, original poem cuts, and other such magics. Purchase your digital download directly from Avery…

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Free

Poetry Slam and Open Mic!

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 be at our venue, Tiny's Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is welcome. We do not censor our mic except for instances of hate-speech. Please also note that we start a little earlier then at previous venues. Accessibility info: Tiny's is on the 6 bus line, which is a frequent service line. It is a quarter mile from the the streetcar line and about a half mile away from the max. The building and stage is wheelchair accessible and…

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Free – $5

A Night With: jayy dodd

Yale Union 800 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

an intimate poetry/performance from jayy dodd featuring guest artists Leigh Nishi-Strattner & Travante Franklin

Free

Survival Magic: Poetry and Performance Art with Lauren Sweeten

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Super sparkle glitter attack! Hot tub of hope *activate* Boom! Pow! What's happening? It's a poetry show! Welcome to the poetry party all ye activists, artists, doers, and dreamers. We have some heart balm magic to weave. Let us begin at 7 o'clock.

Free

Third Monday Poetry at Wildwood

Wildwood Saloon 1955 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

Last Stand at the Wildwood Saloon poetry reading Signup at 8pm and reading starts at 8:30

Free

Carlos Reyes and Christopher Howell

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We are pleased to welcome Christopher Howell and Carlos Reyes reading from their new collections of poems. In Christopher Howell's twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. The Grief of a Happy Life explores the interplay between memory and imagination, celebrating the ways that happiness and grief inform one another and give our lives fullness and vitality. Arranged in four sections, Howell's poems feature not only these concerns, but a large and various cast of characters. Woven together with Howell's trademark precision and accessibility into exquisite tableaux, each provides a view of we must live with and what we must not live without. Born in Portland, Christopher Howell is the author of a dozen poetry collections, including…

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Free

Contemporary Brazilian Poetry at Portland State

Portland State University - Fariborz Maseeh Hall 1855 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

This Thursday, PSU presents the poets Rodrigo Bravo and Flavia Rocha, along with translator Sean Nagus. They will read from their own work and also participate in a discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature. The presentation is free and open to the public. Rodrigo Bravo is a translator and researcher in Linguistics with emphasis in translation of poetic discourse, comparative literature and stychology. Lecturer at the graduate school of music at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, he develops his doctoral research at the Graduate School of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at USP. Curator of the TransFormações exposition, at Casa das Rosas (SP) (2017), he also serves as a member of the editorial board of the literary series Neûron at Editora Córrego. Bravo authored academic essays, articles and the books Ernesto na Torre…

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Free

Small Press Residency – Propeller Books

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

Rocking Frog Cafe & NovaPDX present the Small Press Residency program. Every month, meet the people from local small press publishers involved in making great books. During the residency you can purchase the featured press’ books at Rocking Frog Cafe and meet the people behind them. This month our featured press is Propeller Books (www.propellerbooks.com). Join us on Thursday, November 21st, for the last event for Propeller Books small press residency, hosted by Lucas Bernhardt, the guests for this evening are: Daneen Bergland, Ally Harris, and Harper Quinn. ~ Lucas Bernhardt holds MAs in English and in Writing from Portland State University, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He manages the Portland State University Writing Center and is…

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Free
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