Oregon Literary Fellowship Reading
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United StatesA reading featuring the 2023 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients.
Free
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Poetry
National Poetry Month: FREE Movie Night! Slam featuring poet Saul Williams
The Headwaters Theatre 55 Northeast Farragut Street #9, Portland, OR, United StatesApril is National Poetry Month! Come enjoy a free movie and stay for the open mic! Tonight's film will be Slam (1998) featuring poet Saul Williams. A little about Slam and Saul Williams: Slam is a 1998 American independent drama film directed, co-written and co-produced by Marc Levin and starring and co-written by Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn. It tells the story of a young African-American man whose talent for poetry is hampered by his social background. Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor. He is known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop, and for his lead roles in the 1998 independent film Slam and the 2013 jukebox musical Holler If…
$10
Jessica Gigot and Ann Stinson
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesIt is always a joy to welcome authors from Oregon State University Press to the store, and tonight we have two of them! Please join us to hear Ann Stinson and Jessica Gigot discussing their most recent books, The Ground at My Feet and A Little Bit of Land, respectively. Ann Stinson grew up on her family’s tree farm in southwestern Washington state, on a ridge above the Cowlitz River. After building a life in New York and Portland, she returned home at the age of fifty, when her brother’s death from cancer left her manager and co-owner of three hundred acres planted in Douglas fir, western red cedar, and ponderosa pine. The Ground at My Feet is a memoir about loss and grief as…
Free
Reading: Jessica E. Johnson and Kesha Ajose-Fisher
Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United StatesAnnie Bloom's welcomes Portland writers Jessica E. Johnson and Kesha Ajose-Fisher for readings and conversation. Jessica E. Johnson's new poetry collection is Metabolics. Kesha Ajose-Fisher's short story collection, No God Like the Mother, is newly reissued by Portland's own Forest Avenue Press. Signed and personalized copies of both authors' books are available for order! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; all orders without a name specified in the order notes will be signed only. About Metabolics: In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often in tension. Metabolics, a book-length poem, borrows the movements of metabolic pathways…
Free
Slamlandia
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United StatesSlamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old to come share their work. We strive towards a safer space for poets to read their own poetry, witness others, and participate in community. This event takes place in-person. Please see our Covid-19 guidelines for in-person events at Literary Arts. Hosted by Julia Gaskill. **Slamlandia usually takes place the third Thursday of the month, but will be taking place the second Thursday in April due to some scheduling conflicts. We will resume to third Thursdays after this month. Thanks!** Julia Gaskill Julia Gaskill is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. Her…
Free
Susan Gevirtz & David Abel, Works on Paper
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesWorks on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound presents SUSAN GEVIRTZ DAVID ABEL Saturday, April 15 7:30 pm (doors open 7:00) $10-20 suggested donation; no one turned away Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 503-388-7665 ========================== SUSAN GEVIRTZ Susan Gevirtz will read and play voiceover soundtracks from her play Motion Picture Home recently published in the collection Burns from Pamenar Press. Motion Picture Home was written at the request of Kevin Killian who also directed it for a Poet’s Theatre jubilee in San Francisco. Named after the actual Motion Picture Home for retired stars and workers of the Hollywood movie industry in Los Angeles, it addresses the death there of Gevirtz’s grandfather, and other deaths and schisms such as divorce, wish, and liaisons between…
Free – $20
Portland Poetry Slam Presents: Roxy Allen
Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United StatesWe will see you this Sunday with a feature from Roxy Allen! Sign up for our Poetry Slam or Open mic! Open to all!
Free
Smallpresspalooza
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesAfter a four-year absence, Smallpresspalooza is back! Powell's presents this marathon reading of authors published by local and national small presses for the twelfth time. This year's lineup features Marcelle Heath, Sam Rose Preminger, Nicholas Yandell & Timothy Arliss O'Brien, Craig Buchner, Benjamin Kessler, Marialicia González, Eric Tran, Alyssa Giannini, Ashley Yang-Thompson, Quinn Gancedo, X.C. Atkins, and April Alexis Hernandez. Hosted by Powell's small-press champion and publisher of Future Tense Books, Kevin Sampsell. A full Smallpresspalooza schedule is available here. Preorder a Signed Edition (Heath) Preorder a Signed Edition (Preminger) Preorder a Signed Edition (Yandell & O’Brien) Preorder a Signed Edition (Buchner) Preorder a Signed Edition (Kessler) Preorder a Signed Edition (González) Preorder a Signed Edition (Tran) Preorder a Signed Edition (Giannini) Preorder a Signed…
Free
Poets & Popcorn
Alberta Abbey 126 NE Alberta Street #205, Portland, OR, United StatesEvent starts at 5:30 All ages welcome. Free parking is available in the lot across the street until full. A creative writing workshop, open mic, and film screening community event at The Abbey. Poets and writers will engage in a 1-hour cross-genre / poetry writing workshop in conversation with the themes, subjects, and ideas of the selected film. A 45-minute community open mic will follow, inviting attendees to share new creative work and build literary community with each other. A free admission community film screening will conclude the event, encouraging donations and concession stand purchases beforehand. Workshop participants will be additionally encouraged to engage with the film as an ekphratic inspiration to continue their workshop drafts at a future date. Each stage of the event…
Free
BIPOC Reading Series- April
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesThis bimonthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Come listen to our featured readers, or sign up to share your work in our open mic. Readings will be followed by a short community discussion. The theme for April is “Transformation.” Our featured reader is Brandt Maina. Brandt Maina (he/they) – RIOA wa RIOE —is an abstRact and absuRdist artist, performer and writer from Nairobi, Kenya. In the month of the year of our Lard, May 2020, they graduated with a BFA in Acting and Vocal Performance from Taylor University, a small conservative Christian University in rural Indiana. Simply stated, with a background in the arts, and fresh memories of being homeless…
Free
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