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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
First Monday open mic poetry show featuring the unimmitatable Jason Kastrup. Host of the fabulous Aural Pleasure showcase! Here is the link to watch. https://getvokl.com/live-broadcast/Last-Stand-at-Wildwood-3
Inspired by Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, and his tendency to write while on lunch breaks, this workshop series is meant to provide creative diversion during your lunch hours. For the first series, we’ll be discussing and composing beginnings: how to begin, memorable first lines, and various procedures for getting into a poem. We’ll read poems and excerpts from Renee Gladman, Chelsey Minnis, Heather Christle, Matthew Rohrer, Natalie Diaz, Inger Christensen, Etel Adnan and others. This workshop is free, though registration is limited to 10 people. Meetings will take place via zoom. Register for the workshop here. Participants will be emailed a link for the zoom meetup the week of the first meeting.
*Zoom Meeting Link Here* Teen Poetry Time is a weekly creative space for youth to explore free form poetry in a supportive way. This virtual space we create together will consist of free writing practice, prompts, and opportunities for self-reflection. With the use of tools such as oracle cards, objects, sounds, and other people’s poetry we will generate writing that reflects our own unique voice. Come as you are, already writing, or curious to try. Let’s get free! Every Wednesday from 3-4 pm PST Briauna Taylor is a poet, youth mentor, and seeker of magic living in Portland Oregon. She is the facilitator of the ‘Mind & Mouth’ youth poetry programming and open mic series at local non-profit Marrow. Her practice and personal mission aim…
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, CA. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Her secoSnd book, Postcolonial Love Poem, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2020. Diaz is a Macarthur Foundation Fellow, 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, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as receiving a U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship and Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.
Poetic Divination: generating language to manifest. In this workshop, we will create a space for creativity and vulnerability through questions, prompts and the use of divination tools. We will create language that can be shaped into a poem, a message, or manifestation within these times of great uncertainty.
We are pleased to announce that Slamlandia will be hosting another digital poetry open mic this month - with a feature from John-Francis Quiñonez! This open mic - only poetry, no music please - will take place on May 7th. We'll be hosting this event with the help of Literary Arts. We're going to be changing up just a little how this one will work, so here's a run down: :::THREE DAYS BEFOREHAND::: -- On Monday, we will make a post about the Zoom link. You can reach out to us via email ( slamlandia@gmail.com ) or DMs, and we will send you the Zoom link for our Thursday chatroom. You can reach out to us anytime from Monday to Thursday. :::DAY OF::: -- 6:30pm…
Join us for a virtual show. Performers: Doug will share some Portland history. Jeb Sherill will read from his works. And more! Please consider contributing to this live virtual event with an optional cover fee here: https://www.rosecitybookpub.com/shop/optional-cover-fee-for-virtual-events-5-suggested
Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings. You can submit your poetry as an audio recording to us. In the audio recording, please introduce yourself, tell listeners where to find your work online and any other message you want to share, and of course your poems. If you have any virtual events you are a part of feel free to share how to find them. Please make the recording up to 7 minutes and give about 5 seconds of silence at the start and at the end of the recording. Send the recording to wordlightspoetry@gmail.com and if there are any links you want…
NOTE: Due to the restrictions to keep us safe from the Coronavirus, The Work will continue as a remote workshop via Zoom. Please email Christopher Luna at christopherjluna@gmail.com by 4 pm on Sunday, May 10 if you would like to participate. Also, please share this event with others who might be interested. The cost for the workshop is a suggested donation of $20 to Christopher Luna's PayPal account. Suggested means that we would like for you to join us regardless of whether or not you can afford it right now. Image: The Work, collage by Christopher Luna Join us on Monday, May 11 & 25 for The Work, a poetry writing workshop led by Christopher Luna. “Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work —…
Inspired by Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, and his tendency to write while on lunch breaks, this workshop series is meant to provide creative diversion during your lunch hours. For the first series, we’ll be discussing and composing beginnings: how to begin, memorable first lines, and various procedures for getting into a poem. We’ll read poems and excerpts from Renee Gladman, Chelsey Minnis, Heather Christle, Matthew Rohrer, Natalie Diaz, Inger Christensen, Etel Adnan and others. This workshop is free, though registration is limited to 10 people. Meetings will take place via zoom. Register for the workshop here. Participants will be emailed a link for the zoom meetup the week of the first meeting.