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Poets Kim Stafford, Francesca Bell, & Nastashia Minto

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Kim Stafford’s new collection, Wild Honey, Tough Salt (Red Hen), offers a prismatic view of Earth citizenship – with testaments for world community, spells for peace, earth blessings, and family consolations. Unapologetically sensual and forthright, Francesca Bell’s Bright Stain (Red Hen) explores desire, loss, faith, doubt, tenderness, and violence; and sex as experience, metaphor, and magnifying lens for relationships. In her poetic memoir, Naked (Eldredge), Nastashia Minto strips herself of who she used to be and gives readers permission to see her naked – exploring topics of family, faith, race, sexuality, abuse, love, and identity.

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Bone Tax Poetry Series

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

Details TBA

Free

Comedy vs. Tragedy #16

Cider Riot 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Three musicians vs. three poets vs. three comedians! - the audience picks the winners! Plus a featured performance and a raffle! ************************************************** PRICE OF TICKETS $10 online with an advanced purchase or $15 at the door. Get yours now at WWW.NOVAPDX.ORG ************************************************** ROUND ONE – NINE PERFORMERS Three poets will perform one piece in their round. Then the audience will select their favorite performance by applause and that poet will advance to the final round. Then three comedians will perform and the audience will select one to advance. Then three musicians will perform and the audience will select one of them to join the poet and the comedian in the final round. FEATURE PERFORMANCE - DeAngelo Gillispie SPECIAL GUEST: Mr. Monday POETRY Nani Jones Vivian…

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$10 – $15

Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

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 June 22nd, we'll have a feature from Robert Lashley, two mini features from Dena Rash Guzman & Skyler Reed, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Robert Lashley A 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award, Robert Lashley has had poems published in such journals as Feminete, Seattle Review of Books, NAILED, Gramma, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and The Cascadia Review. His work was also featured in Many Trails to the Summit, an anthology of Northwest form and lyric poetry, and It Was Written, an anthology of poetry inspired by hip hop. His full-length books include THE HOMEBOY…

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Free

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Robert Lashley

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!!! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Robert Lashley! More about Robert: A 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award, Robert Lashley has had poems published in such journals as Feminete, Seattle Review of Books, NAILED, Gramma, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and The Cascadia Review. His work was also featured in Many Trails to the Summit, an anthology of Northwest form and lyric poetry, and It Was Written, an anthology of poetry inspired by hip hop. We will be at our venue, Tiny's Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone…

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Free

The Work Poetry Workshop with Christopher Luna

Angst Gallery 1015 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Join us on Monday, June 24 for The Work, a poetry writing workshop at Angst Gallery led by Christopher Luna. “Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.” ― Allen Ginsberg, “Memory Gardens” (Fall of America, City Lights) The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion, and sparks the shifts in consciousness which can lead to healing, personal growth, and an interest in fighting for progressive social change. The Monday Night Edition of The Work takes place at Angst Gallery (1015 Main Street, Vancouver) from 6-8:30 pm on the second and fourth Monday of each month, unless…

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Free – $20

Poetry Practice Space

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Poetry Practice Space is a monthly gathering for poets and writers. Writing materials, readings and prompts for generative writing will be provided. Come share a space to talk about your writing practice, and current writing projects, bemoan rejections, celebrate acceptances, share writing resources— and write together! Consider Poetry Practice Space the calisthenics for your poetics. Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Free for members

Free – $5

Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday July 27th, we'll have a feature from Sam Preminger, two mini features from Morgan Paige & Donovan James, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Sam Preminger Sam Preminger is a non-binary, Jewish poet based out of Portland, OR. They serve as the Managing Editor of Nailed Magazine and hold an MFA from Pacific University. You can find more about Sam at sampreminger.com. ~ MINI-FEATURE: Morgan Paige Morgan Paige is a creator, morbid optimist, business owner and cannabis lover residing in Vancouver, WA. Her poetic cadence is not her own. Rather, an expression of the ever unfolding spiral of nature manifesting itself through her selection of…

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Poetry Night – John Sibley Williams, Coleman Stevenson, Cindy Williams Gutierrez

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our monthly poetry night, this month featuring John Sibley Williams, Coleman Stevenson, and Cindy Williams Gutierrez. What happens when metaphysics and social critique meet? Poetry that has to find a new form to express the tension it embodies. John Sibley Williams’ newspaper-like columns in As One Fire Consumes Another do just that. Here, transcendent vision and trenchant social insight meet, wrestle, and end up revitalizing one another. About Metaphysik: Written to accompany the Metaphysik deck by Daniel Martin Diaz, this series of essays by poet and artist Coleman Stevenson muses on concepts of connection and creativity. Readers are invited to think about the ways they access information, form ideas, and communicate those ideas to others. The essays are followed by a set…

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Free

Poems with J Mase III: A Night of Black Trans Survival

First Unitarian Portland 1211 SW Main St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on Thursday, June 27, 7-8:30 p.m. for the performance along with a Q&A after. No charge. Drop-ins are welcome; however, advanced registration and free-will donations are appreciated. J Mase III is a Black/trans/queer poet & educator based in Seattle by way of Philly. His work has been featured on MSNBC, Essence Live, Everyday Feminism, Black Girl Dangerous, the New York Times, Buzzfeed, the Root, the Huffington Post, TEDx and more. He is the author of If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell my Kidney I was the Fiercest Poet Around, as well as And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, and inappropriate Jokes about Death. As a performer, he has shared stages with world renowned artists like Chuck…

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