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FALL Online: Read a Poem, Write a Poem Workshop II w Matthew Dickman

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Three-hour workshop where we give a special poem a deep reading and conversation, then generate our own poem. Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions, if needed. For each class, you'll receive a Zoom "invitation," from the instructor. Click the link...follow the simple directions about the settings for your microphone and in-computer video, and you're immediately in the "room" for the workshop. For critique workshops, instructors will communicate with students about the process of sharing work. For more generative workshops, students will be writing together while on Zoom. Teacher: Matthew Dickman Time: Monday, Oct 19, 5:30 - 8:30pm (Pacific Time)…

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$65 – $83

Head for the Hills Virtual Reading and Open Mic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Featured reader Brittney Corrigan (reading at 7pm) followed by an open mic starting at 7:20pm. Open mic is 1-3 poems up to 5 minutes, ending at 8pm. Join the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81905840053?pwd=ZTJsTk9XR3dZNExxOWkxbE5YRTNmdz09 Head for the Hills has been an ongoing poetry series held at the Hillsdale Library that meets on the last Tuesday of the month. Co-hosted by Marc Janssen. Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) Meeting ID: 819 0584 0053 Passcode: 971652

Free

Fall Poetry Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

IPRC Creative Workshops for Fall 2020 will be held online via zoom, PST. This is a workshop for all levels, whether you’ve just written your first poem or have been seriously writing for years. Each week, we’ll read and discuss one another’s work, emphasizing both craft (the shaping and forming of language) as well as the vision that’s unique to each individual. Our conversations will rest upon the assumption that there is no “correct” answer in art—that is, the thoughts and feelings that each piece of writing evokes will be a welcome part of the discussion. All aesthetics are welcome, experimentation is encouraged, and we will strive to meet each piece of writing on its own terms. Through engaging with one another’s work, we’ll dive…

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$250

Poetry Workshop with Risa Mykland

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a Poetry workshop lead by Risa Mykland! This is a free workshop with an opportunity to tip Risa for their time. Workshop info: Risa Mykland (she/they) will be leading a workshop theming around writing about a simple personal experience and using it to illustrate a much larger story from your life. There will be an opportunity in the workshop to individually listen to a song (preferably one you know really well), so if you want to decide on that song before the workshop feel free to. You will also have time to choose it during the workshop. Come prepared with some way to take words down (ex. notebook + pen, phone notes app, laptop document), optionally a song, and your wonderful self.…

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Free

FALL Online: Experiments in Poetic Revision Workshop w Ashley Toliver

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

THE LUMINOUS DARK - EXPERIMENTS IN POETIC REVISION Through experimentation with radical revision and embodied writing exercises, we'll tap into our inner knowing to find more wildness in our work and more freedom in the creative process. Come armed with 10-20 unfinished poems and an openness to pursuing intuitive pathways in this dynamic class. | Maximum: 14 writers Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions, if needed. For each class, you'll receive a Zoom "invitation," from the instructor. Click the link...follow the simple directions about the settings for your microphone and in-computer video, and you're immediately in the…

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$215 – $242

Suzanne Sigafoos Reading from This Swarm of Light

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting Portland poet Suzanne Sigafoos in an online event on Wednesday, October 28th, at 4 pm pacific time. She will be reading from her newly published first full-length collection of poems, This Swarm of Light. A mid-century child of the midwest, Sigafoos is a happy Portland resident. She and her husband live in a 1916 house they restored in 1999, where they now shelter-in-place, grateful for a home among graceful trees and gracious neighbors. Her chapbook, Held in the Weave, was published in 2011 by Finishing Line Press. John Brehm says this about the collection: "Whether they're about hiking down canyons, standing transfixed before an Andrew Wyeth painting, or bathing a dying mother, these poems are devotional.…

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Free

Natalie Diaz

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her second poetry collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, came out in 2020 from Graywolf. Her first collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012. Diaz was a 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, and a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. **Register here for the Natalie Diaz reading. A link will be…

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Free

Eduardo Halfon, Chloe Aridjis & Andrés Neuman

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers From Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic (edited by Ilan Stavans) (Restless Books) is a rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology featuring dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than 30 countries. As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. Taking its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens, the anthology offers a profound global portrait of the defining moment of our time, and sends a clarion call for…

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Free

November Open Mic feat. Shanna Alden and Erin Schick

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our October Open Mic! Sign ups will be available in the event 30 minutes before we start! You will have 3 minutes to read 1-2 poems. We will have a feature from Shanna Alden And Erin Schick! Shanna Alden (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary poet in the Pacific Northwest. Their work has been featured on Tell It Slant Radio, Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio, Voicemail Poems, and the upcoming anthology In the Shadow of the Mic from Bridge and Tunnel books. Their fiction will be featured in Filth Lit Mag. Before the plague, they were a bartender, a barista, and a photographer who focused on human subjects and events. Erin Schick (they/them) is a queer, trans, and multiply disabled social worker…

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Free
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