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Pirate (and Potty!) Story Time with Dawn Prochovnic

Green Bean Books 1600 NE Alberta Street, Portland

Celebrate Talk like a Pirate Day with us as we welcome local author Dawn Prochovnic on Thursday, September 19th at 3:30pm. Dawn will lead a lively, interactive story time and pirate party to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day and the pre-launch of one of her latest books, Where Does a Pirate Go Potty? For pirate enthusiasts and potty humorists of all ages! Her previous book in the series, Where Does a Cowgirl Go Potty?, will also be available at this event. Signing and questions will follow the story time.

Free

Slamlandia September Picnic PDX Poetry Open Mic

Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Ave, Portland

Join us on SEPTEMBER 19TH for our third Thursday Poetry Open Mic! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic! Show begins at 7:00 PM Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. $5 suggested donation at door. This show will not have a poetry slam or a featured poet. We ask for just poetry on this mic, no music or stand up comedy. ★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★ The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is a great way to share your wonderful poetry! You can share…

Free – $5

The Half Past 40 Howling Drunk Poetry Bash

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Make no mistake. This is a birthday party, but this is not just any party....This is a birthday party for all the losers who were picked last, who never received an invitation, who was never asked out for the school dance. This is a party for us! This is the party celebrating two thing I love most in this world, poetry and music. The evenings literary and musical entertainment will be provided by some of the people I respect and admire the most in the Portland area. The very fact these special people agreed to do this with me astounds me. Remember, no gifts needed. Bring joy! Bring tears! But mostly just bring your own lovely selves! The event starts at 6:30 P.M. and the…

Free

Susan Banyas

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

Susan Grace Banyas joins us to talk about her book The Hillsboro Story: A Kaleidoscope History of an Integration Battle in My Hometown, a multi-voiced tale that brings to light the courageous people who fought for integration and equal protection in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, at a time when Cold War tensions were at their peak. Two months after the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its momentous Brown v. Board of Education decision, an eight-year-old girl named Susan Grace Banyas, living in the small town of Hillsboro, Ohio, bore witness to a courageous community protest staged to support and hasten the integration of her town's public schools, after the "colored school" was mysteriously set on fire. Five decades later, Banyas, now a…

Free

Author Event: Don Merrill

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

With pledge drive season coming up, author Don Merrill (Pledge: The Public Radio Fund Drive) answers questions and discusses public radio's innards with the curious.

Free

Atticus

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

Atticus’s third collection of poems, The Truth About Magic (St. Martin’s Griffin), builds on the pains and joys of romance explored in Love Her Wild and The Dark Between Stars – heartbreaks and falling in love, looking back and looking inwards – by taking a fresh, awakened journey outward. An adventure into the great unknown. It’s about finding ourselves, our purpose, and the simple joys of life. It’s about lavender fields, drinking white wine out of oak barrels on vineyards, laughing until you cry, dancing in old barns until the sun comes up, and making love on sandy beaches.

Free

5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland

Cardinal Club Presents: ~5x5~ 9/19/19 7 pm with new work by: Nathan Wade Carter Spencer Pond Isabel Zacharias Sarah Cutsforth Shloimy Notik this thursday! 7pm! come out for the newest edition of 5x5, with work by @purrbot @____iz__ @shloimynotik @milhouse_rules @sarahjanecuts

Free

Attic Institute: 20th Anniversary

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

The Attic Institute 20th Anniversary Reading featuring Associate Fellow in Nonfiction Brian Benson and four Attic students: Craig Brandis Irish Chung Jennifer Dorner Valerie Rea

Free

Steve Anderson

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Hawaii, 1948. Troubled WWII hero turned deserter Wendell Lett desperately seeks a cure to his severe combat trauma, and The Preserve seems to be his salvation. Run by Lansdale, a mysterious intelligence officer, and Lett’s ambitious wartime XO, Charlie Selfer, the secretive training camp promises relief from the terrors in his mind. Together with Kanani Alana, a tough-minded Hawaiian also looking for a new start at The Preserve, Lett begins to feel hopeful. All illusions are shattered, though, when Lett discovers The Preserve’s true intentions – to rebuild him into a cold-blooded assassin. Based on true events, Steven Anderson’s The Preserve (Skyhorse) is a fast-paced historical thriller that will leave you breathless.

Free