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Livestream: Joann Boswell, Christopher Luna & Rebecca Smolen

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Joann Boswell, Christopher Luna and Rebecca Smolen for a livestream reading from their latest collections. Livestream registration link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/joann-boswell Local writer Joann Boswell presents her new book, Cosmic Pockets. What if Mary wasn’t really a virgin? Could Jesus be an alien from another planet? How do we know we’re not all living inside of God? Poet and photographer Joann Renee Boswell invites us to travel with her into an encounter with the inconvenient complexities of earth-life and outer space, politics and religion, Bigfoot, feminism, Santa Claus, and spirituality––all tucked inside the Cosmic Pockets of life. Simultaneously whimsical and serious, Cosmic Pockets traces Joann’s personal journey out of evangelical Christianity and into an evolving understanding of faith––what if the universe is…

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Free

Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Robyn Kaur Sidhu

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Slamlandia is hosting another digital poetry open mic. This open mic - only poetry, no music please - will take place on August 20th. We'll be hosting this event with the help of Literary Arts. You can access our Zoom link in advance. Here is the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcOmuqz0qGtaSZsUI8oaSMnAeIg6OqIMR Sign ups for the open mic will be posted at 6:30pm PT day of via Facebook posts and an Instagram story. Comment / reply to get your name on the list. Open mic will promptly begin at 7pm. Poets gets 3 minutes to share poetry - please do not go over time. We will have a feature from Robyn Kaur Sidhu. Robyn Kaur Sidhu (she/he/they) is a Queer, mad, chronically ill, Punjabi-Canadian spoken word poet,…

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Free

Stay Home Stay Queer

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for our August eddition of Stay Home Stay Queer. show starts at 7:30 PM. Zoom code: 878 8742 4707 password: poetry

Free

September Open Mic feat. Michael Jasso

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our September 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 have a feature from Michael Jasso! More about Michael: Michael Jasso (not to be confused with Hagrid) is a poet, teaching artist and organizer based out of California's Central Valley. He is the founder of The Loud Mouth Poetry Jam, Visalia's premiere slam venue for 8+ years. Since he started competing 11 years ago he's represented his venue at NPS 2014 & 2015, competed as a storm poet at IWPS 2018, and has coached several of Visalia's reps. Much like Hagrid, he talks funny and is looking forward to becoming your best friend. We are…

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Livestream Poetry Reading: Megan Alpert, Amelia Diaz Ettinger, Jennifer Perrine

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Northwest poets Megan Alpert, Amelia Díaz Ettinger, and Jennifer Perrine for a livestream reading from their new collections, published by Portland's own Airlie Press. Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/poetry-reading-megan Pre-signed copies of all books will be available for pickup, local delivery, or shipping. In Washington state poet Megan Alpert's The Animal at Your Side, narrators scavenge for clues, trying to stitch together a life in the midst of unrootedness. Finding bones, talismans, and half-heard voices that portal back to both personal and collective history, the speakers are haunted by diaspora, family estrangement, intergenerational trauma, and resilience. What are the costs of being far away from a homeplace? What are the costs of returning? And when the costs are too high on both sides, how do you…

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Brad Garber & Gina Williams

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

NOTE: Due to circumstances beyond everyone's control, this month's reading will take place over Zoom. Email christopherjluna@gmail.com by no later than 3 pm on September 10 to indicate your interest in participating. In the subject line, let us know if you are "Reading" or "Just Listening." You will receive instructions for how to join the meeting. Open mic readers are invited to share one poem for three minutes or less. The Loranger family, who have been loyal regulars since our very first reading in November 2004, recently lost their home in a fire. In lieu of a five-dollar suggested donation, we request that you donate to the Loranger’s GoFundMe page. Let’s come together as a community to help our friends in need: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jack-and-lori-loranger-fire-fund Ghost Town…

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Free

The Poetry Box LIVE – A Zoom Poetry Reading Series

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Poetry Box LIVE - September Edition Time: Sep 12, 2020 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading series on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Shawn Aveningo Sanders is the host/emcee with 3 Featured Poet/Authors each show. September Featured Poets: • Joanne Godley, author of PICKING SCABS FROM THE BODY HISTORY (Virginia) • Pamela Anderson-Bartholet, author of JUST THE GIRLS: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees (Ohio) • Marshall Witten, author of MY MIND'S EYE (Vermont) ------- ABOUT THE FEATURED POETS ---------- Joanne Godley, author of Picking Scabs from the Body History (The Poetry Box, 2020) is a practicing physician, poet and writer whose work is informed by social injustices. She is…

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Free

First Matter Press 2020 Book Release

Cathedral Park N Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Come join First Matter Press for a Poetry Reading in the Park to celebrate our 2020 Titles, featuring Peter Hamer, Eitan Codish, K. M. Lighthouse, Dan Wiencek and Lauren Paredes. Sunday, September 13, 2020 Cathedral Park, Portland OR (underneath the St. John's Bridge) Gather at 5:30pm Readings begin at 6pm Physical distancing and masks required. Please bring your own blanket/chair, drinks and snacks. Questions? firstmatterpress@gmail.com Rain? Check our website firstmatterpress.org for weather updates

Free

Mike Birbiglia & J. Hope Stein Ticketed Event

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

In The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad (Grand Central), comedian Mike Birbiglia devotes his unflinching and brilliant storytelling acumen to parenthood — to fatherhood — as well as how he, a man deeply determined never to have children, found himself with one. Nuanced, honest, hilarious, but also poignant, it’s a story that reveals not only his own but also our collective human nature — reassuring us that we’re actually all in this thing together. The New One is sprinkled with poetry by Birbiglia’s wife, J. Hope Stein, written as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood. With laugh-out-loud observations on the roller coaster of being a parent, The New One is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a…

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$28

The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

NOTE: Due to restrictions aimed at keeping us safe from the COVID-19, The Work will continue as a remote workshop via Zoom. Please email Christopher Luna at christopherjluna@gmail.com by midnight the night before each workshop to RSVP 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: christopherjluna@gmail.com “Suggested” means that we would like for you to join us regardless of whether or not you can afford it right now. Join us on the second and fourth Monday of every month for The Work. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages…

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Free – $20
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