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Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma with Janice Lee —Begins June 5th

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma June 5 - July 2, 2022 (Synchronous Zoom sessions Mondays 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27) ***SOLD OUT! Email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com to add your name to the waitlist*** “What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James “How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong "Death needs a…

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$50

Poetry hosted by Igor Brezhnev

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

We originally advertised this as a reading by Red O’Hare, but it turns out that Red will be out of town. Igor will bring us some great poetry regardless, someone or someones worth hearing from. Red is rescheduled for One Day.

Free

Notes and Motes: improvised jazz and surreal poetry

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

Notes & Motes: The Vlatkovich Trio Plus One Michael Vlatkovich - trombone Chris Lee - percussion Shao Way Wu - Bass Casey Bush - poet

Free

Portland Lit Mic

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

Literature open mic hosted by some lovely folks from PSU. You wrote it, you read it.

Free

Crossings | with Performance Works NorthWest & Buckmxn Journal

Performance Works NorthWest 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Crossings is a multi-disciplinary production seeking discovery through collaboration. Three teams—each featuring a dancer, musician, and poet—will combine skills and insights to present a new brew of performance. The three collaborating organizations, Performance Works NorthWest, Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, and Buckmxn Journal, place the creative impulse completely in the hands of the artists, intentionally selecting creators who are also adept performers. This is a grand confluence focused deliberately on collaboration—dancers Sophia Tweed Ahmad, Danielle Ross, and Akela Jaffi; musicians Michael Gamble, Machado Mijiga, and Cyrus Nabipoor; and poets Rich Perin, Emmi Greer, and Carolyn Supinka; don’t know each other but will dare to create together. We can’t tell you what these artists will do just yet, and we like it that way. But we do…

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$5 – $35

Submission Deadline: Pile Press: Summer Reading Issue

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Pile Press is open for submissions from May 1st - June 12th, 2022! We accept poetry, short fiction, CNF, comics, photography, art, and more. We publish women, non-binary and gender fluid creatives. More submission guidelines and details can be found here: https://pilepress.com/home-2/submit/ See also their call on Instagram here!

Free

Wellspring Open Mic

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

John Carter hosts this very open mic. You’re welcome to share any of your talents from any field of art or other interest. Music and poetry, of course, but also comedy, magic, dance. You can give an art talk about a piece of visual art. You can read a chapter of your dissertation. Let’s share our creative endeavors so that we can all grow through shared inspiration. Starting in March, Wellspring will be on 2nd and 4th Sundays right after Community Art Day. Sign ups start at 6:00 or so.

Free

June Poetry Practice Space

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

Join us monthly on zoom, on the third Thursday of the month for prompts and sharing. Register here, and we’ll send the zoom link on the day of the event. 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

Brittney Corrigan and John Sibley Williams

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

An evening of poetry with Brittney Corrigan and John Sibley Williams Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Breaking, Navigation, 40 Weeks, and most recently, Daughters, a series of persona poems in the voices of daughters of various characters from folklore, mythology, and popular culture, published by Airlie Press. Solastalgia, a collection of poems exploring climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene age, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in 2023. Brittney was raised in Colorado and has lived in Portland for the past three decades, where she is an alumna and employee of Reed College. She is currently at work on her first short story collection. John Sibley Williams is the author of Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Book Award,…

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