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3rd Annual East Portland Arts & Literary Festival

Orchards of 82nd 8188 SE Division St, Portland

Will we see you at 3PALF — oops, we mean, EPALF? Our third annual festival featuring artists and cultural workers of color will animate two community hubs in East Portland: Orchards of 82nd (O82), APANO’s brand-new home and community space, and Fubonn, the largest Asian grocery store and shopping center in Oregon! Spanning October 4-5th, EPALF will feature a spectrum of live performances, interactive creative activities, a full family-friendly lineup, and more at O82, plus our hallmark Book & Craft Fair at Fubonn. Join us in celebrating local artists, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in East Portland through this signature event. Suggested donation is $5, and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. Hosted by APANO’s Arts & Media Project. WITH PERFORMANCES…

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Free – $20

Three Ways to Disappear – Katy Yocom

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland

Join us for a reading of Three Ways to Disappear, a debut novel by Katy Yocom. Leaving behind a nomadic career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, country of her childhood and of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn, fears that India will be Sarah’s undoing. As Sarah’s new job is made complicated by complex local politics and a forbidden love, Quinn copes with their mother’s refusal to discuss the past, her son’s life-threatening illness, and her own increasingly troubled marriage. When Sarah asks Quinn to join her in India, Quinn realizes that the only way to overcome the past is to return to it, and it is in this place of…

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Free

William Kent Krueger

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

William Kent Krueger returns with This Tender Land (Atria), a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression – an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.

Free

Manything Goes, at Mother Foucault’s

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Come help dan raphael celebrate his new book, Manything, with this book launch at Portland's premier reading venue. Manything is 132 pages long, and comes form Unliekly Books in New Orleans. Lawrence Smith, editor of Caliban, wrote: "It is appropriate that Dan Raphael’s Manything has come out in the year of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. Raphael is one of the few poets since Whitman to have such a complete delight in the multiplicity of the world. His integration of the objects of man’s making with the wildness of nature is liberating. The poet’s body parts can function independently and often co-mingle freely with dirty streets, rain, bottles, squirrels, and the sun. Manything is a vision, one that moves us beyond our complacency, making us less…

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Free

Jackie Shannon Hollis

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

When Jackie Shannon Hollis marries a man who doesn’t want children, she joyfully commits to a childless life. But when she holds her newborn niece, Jackie begins to question her decision. As she navigates the overlapping roles of wife, daughter, aunt, sister, survivor, counselor, and friend, she explores what it means to choose a different path. This Particular Happiness (Forest Avenue) delves into the messy, beautiful territory of what we keep and what we abandon to make the space for love.

Free

OLIVIA GATWOOD Life of the Party Tour with Ari Chi & special guest Cailin Nolte

Star Theater 13 NW 6th Ave, Portland

Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Olivia Gatwood has received national recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. As a finalist at Brave New Voices, Women of the World and the National Poetry Slam, Olivia's performances have been featured on HBO, Huffington Post, MTV, VH1, and BBC among others. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, The Winter Tangerine Review, Poetry City U.S.A., Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and The Missouri Review. Her Amazon Best Selling collection, New American Best Friend, reflects her experiences growing up in both New Mexico and Trinidad, navigating girlhood, puberty, relationships, and period underwear. Olivia is a full-time touring artist, and has performed internationally at over two-hundred…

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$15
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