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Slamlandia November Literary Arts Show ft. Desmond Spann

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on NOVEMBER 21ST for a Thursday Poetry Open Mic and Slam! This is a qualifying slam to get into our WOWPS finals at the start of next year. 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 Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. No door admission. We will have a feature from the fantastic Desmond Spann! ★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★ The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is a great way to share your wonderful poetry! You…

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Free

Alicia Jo Rabins + Martha Silano: A Poetry Reading

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

Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, ritualist and Torah teacher. She is the author of poetry books Divinity School (2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode (finalist for the 2018 Jewish Book Award), and has released three albums with Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about Biblical women. Rabins lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their two small children. www.aliciajo.com Martha Silano’s newest poetry collection is Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books 2019). Previous collections include The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception and Reckless Lovely, both from Saturnalia Books. Martha teaches at Bellevue College, near her home in Seattle, WA. marthasilano.net

Free

Spare Room reading: Bravo, Rocha, & Negus

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

An evening of Brazilian poetry in Portuguese & English with RODRIGO BRAVO FLÁVIA ROCHA SEAN NEGUS RODRIGO BRAVO holds a Master’s in Linguistics with a background in Classics and Hebrew Studies at the University of São Paulo. He 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 de…

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5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Thursday 11/21 7:30pm @cardinalclub presents the next edition of 5x5 featuring the poetic musings of @queenofcalcium @katslarue @michellerayeoh @futureeva @justinwsant Stop by and say hi

Free

(Soma)tic Poetry Workshop with CA Conrad

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

(Soma)tic poetry rituals provide a window into the creative viability of everything around us, initiating an extreme present. With (Soma)tics we will learn how even in crisis we can thrive through poetry, as well as learn to collaborate in unexpected ways with other artistic disciplines. Soon we’ll all agree with Alice Notley saying, “poetry’s so common hardly anyone can find it.” Location: Room 601 Given as part of The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Symposium: Art + Environmental Justice: A free, full-day interdisciplinary symposium to promote dialog on the interplay of environmentalism, social justice, design, education, and the arts. Scholars, activists, educators, designers and artists working on environmental justice issues will explore the politics surrounding systemic biases and the ways that environmental degradation and…

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CA Conrad, Allison Cobb, Demian DinéYazhi’, Introduced by Jay Ponteri, Moderated by Daniela Molnar

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

CA Conrad is a 2019 Creative Capital Fellow, and the author of 9 books of poetry and essays: their While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017) received the Lambda Award. A recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, they also received the Believer Magazine Book Award and the Gil Ott Book Award. Their work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Polish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Danish, French, and German. They teach regularly at Columbia University and at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); Born2 (Chax Press); and Green-Wood, originally published by Factory School with a new edition in 2018 from Nightboat Books. Cobb’s work has…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Doc Luben

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 23rd, we'll have a feature from Doc Luben, mini-features from Devin Devine & Brennan Lucas Staffieri, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Doc Luben Doc Luben is the two time Portland Poetry Slam City Champion, and a finalist at the 2013 Individual World Poetry Slam. Doc Luben can also transform into a steam locomotive. Their writing appears in the collections Multiverse on Write Bloody Press and Nouns Of Assemblage on Housefire Books. They are a recurring feature on Button Poetry, including the Best Of Button live showcase in Oakland, CA. They were formerly the Tucson AZ Grand Slam champ. Their writing has been adapted…

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Joan Dobbie + Erica Goss: Poetry Reading

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

Goss and Dobbie co-host the River Road Reading Series with Martha Gatchel (riverroadreadings.blogspot.com) in Eugene, Oregon.   Aside from writing poetry, Erica Goss works on combining words with images in poetic videos. She teaches poetry and videography and publishes a beautiful newsletter, “Sticks and Stones.” Her poem, “State of Jefferson,” recently won Zocala’s eighth annual poetry prize.   Joan Dobbie has a 1988 MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and has been writing and publishing poems for many decades. Her Woodstock Baby, A Novel in Poetry came out in 2013. Her second full length poetry book, The Language of Stone is “hot off the presses.” Her website is joanspoetry.blogspot.com.

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Submission Reading Series

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

The reading is slated for poets Bill Carty (author of Huge Cloudy, Octopus Books), Sheila Dong (author of Moon Crumbs, Bottlecap Press), and Ally Harris (author of Dispersal, The Song Cave). Join us for a one-off event celebrating the launch of books n chapbooks by writers from the Pacific Northwest. Bill Carty (Seattle), Sheila Dong (Corvallis), and Ally Harris (Portland) will be reading from their newest releases, and the event will be emceed by Kate Garklavs Saul and Aaron Hand of Submission Reading Series. Doors at 7:30pm Reading promptly at 8:00pm Books available by cash and apps _ _ _ _ Bill Carty is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books) and the chapbook Refugium. He has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work…

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Nastashia Minto

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 Nastashia Minto! 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.…

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