LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!

Kids’ Storytime

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

Join us for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe.

Free

Matt Fraction in Conversation With Chelsea Cain & David Walker

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

In a new sequence of three graphic novellas by Matt Fraction (and Elsa Charretier), November (Image) follows the lives of three women intersecting in a dark criminal underground. As fire and violence tears through their city on a single day and night, they discover their lives are bound together by a mysterious man who seems to be the cause of it all. Fraction will be joined in conversation by author Chelsea Cain and comic book writer David Walker.

Free

CA Conrad, Allison Cobb, Demian DinéYazhi’, Introduced by Jay Ponteri, Moderated by Daniela Molnar

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland

CA Conrad is a 2019 Creative Capital Fellow, and the author of 9 books of poetry and essays: their While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017) received the Lambda Award. A recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, they also received the Believer Magazine Book Award and the Gil Ott Book Award. Their work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Polish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Danish, French, and German. They teach regularly at Columbia University and at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); Born2 (Chax Press); and Green-Wood, originally published by Factory School with a new edition in 2018 from Nightboat Books. Cobb’s work has…

Free

Wordlights Poetry ft. Doc Luben

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday November 23rd, we'll have a feature from Doc Luben, mini-features from Devin Devine & Brennan Lucas Staffieri, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Doc Luben Doc Luben is the two time Portland Poetry Slam City Champion, and a finalist at the 2013 Individual World Poetry Slam. Doc Luben can also transform into a steam locomotive. Their writing appears in the collections Multiverse on Write Bloody Press and Nouns Of Assemblage on Housefire Books. They are a recurring feature on Button Poetry, including the Best Of Button live showcase in Oakland, CA. They were formerly the Tucson AZ Grand Slam champ. Their writing has been adapted…

Free

Daedalus Books Reading and Book Signing

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland

One week from today! free, accessible, & all are welcome New work from: Daniel H. Wilson (author of Robopocalypse), Jason Gurley (author of Eleanor), Benjamin Parzybok (author of Sherwood Nation), Curtis C. Chen (author of Waypoint Kangaroo), Jasmine Gower (author of Moonshine), and Arthur Smid (author of You Will Win the Future)

Free

Joan Dobbie + Erica Goss: Poetry Reading

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Goss and Dobbie co-host the River Road Reading Series with Martha Gatchel (riverroadreadings.blogspot.com) in Eugene, Oregon.   Aside from writing poetry, Erica Goss works on combining words with images in poetic videos. She teaches poetry and videography and publishes a beautiful newsletter, “Sticks and Stones.” Her poem, “State of Jefferson,” recently won Zocala’s eighth annual poetry prize.   Joan Dobbie has a 1988 MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and has been writing and publishing poems for many decades. Her Woodstock Baby, A Novel in Poetry came out in 2013. Her second full length poetry book, The Language of Stone is “hot off the presses.” Her website is joanspoetry.blogspot.com.

Free

Submission Reading Series

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

The reading is slated for poets Bill Carty (author of Huge Cloudy, Octopus Books), Sheila Dong (author of Moon Crumbs, Bottlecap Press), and Ally Harris (author of Dispersal, The Song Cave). Join us for a one-off event celebrating the launch of books n chapbooks by writers from the Pacific Northwest. Bill Carty (Seattle), Sheila Dong (Corvallis), and Ally Harris (Portland) will be reading from their newest releases, and the event will be emceed by Kate Garklavs Saul and Aaron Hand of Submission Reading Series. Doors at 7:30pm Reading promptly at 8:00pm Books available by cash and apps _ _ _ _ Bill Carty is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books) and the chapbook Refugium. He has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work…

Free