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Tess Gallagher in Conversation With Greg Simon & Danielle Vermette

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

Tess Gallagher’s new poems are suspended between contradiction and beauty. Is, Is Not (Graywolf) upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovers daringly at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Gallagher will be joined in conversation by poet Greg Simon and writer Danielle Vermette.

Free

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES Mata Hari Book Release Party

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Join us for a special, spy-themed Book Release Party with Rose City Book Pub "faculty member" author Katherine Factor. WW1-the Belle Epoque food & drinks for all ages will be served. Spy gear and dress-up encouraged! WARNING!!! This author event is different from other author events…. Join us for a very special reading of CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE SPIES: MATA HARI by Katherine Factor— an interactive middle grade story from the perspective of the young Margaretha Zelle, an icon of the glamorous Belle Epoque a century ago. Katherine will read from the beginning until YOU decide what happens next in the story. There will be a Q&A after the reading and book-signing. Books will be available for sale there.

Free

Lilla Lit Launches on May 19!

Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland

Join Lilla Lit for our inaugural event on May 19, 4-6pm, and enjoy food, drink, books, nature, culture, community and readings from Portland writers.

Free – $10

WTAW Portland Presents Exile and Return

Portland Northwest Hostel Cafe 1810 NW Glisan St, Portland

Join Why There Are Words – Portland (WTAW-PDX) for “Exile and Return” May 19, from 4 to 6 pm at the Portland Northwest Hostel Cafe, our fabulous new venue. We’ll have an amazing afternoon with the following amazing feature. Kate Gray’s passion stems from teaching, coaching writers, and volunteering as a writing facilitator with women inmates. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, one full-length collection, Another Sunset We Survive, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and a newly-released collection, For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems published by Widow & Orphan House. Her first novel, Carry the Sky stares at bullying without blinking. Now she is writing through Sylvia Plath in a novel-in-progress, narrating what led to The Bell Jar and her suicide…

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Reading with Jason Christie and jayy dodd

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland

Join us for an evening of poetry with Jason Christie and jayy dodd. What happens to identity when we're obsessed with self-surveillance and devalued words? Now that we've sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent the uncanny valley in which we've set up shop? In lèse-majesté, Jason Christie recoils in horror at the thoroughness of his self, then begins to write toward a new understanding brokered between all the things that define him and who he thinks he should be and interrogates how we reduce people to words, especially online, turning them into objects. Jason Christie is the author of Canada Post, i-ROBOT, Unknown Actor, and a coeditor of Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry.…

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