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Winter Poetry Festival

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

Portland’s second Winter Poetry Festival is a joyful gathering of poets and poetry lovers. Winter is a magical time where the beauty of language burns brightly in the darkness. The festival will feature a marketplace where you can support poets by buying from them directly, inspiring workshops for poets of all levels of experience, innovative performances and craft-talks from top-notch poets, a guest-screening from Seattle’s Cadence: Video Poetry Festival, and the “Poet’s Playground” an ephemeral pop-up of poetic challenges and collaborations. The Festival will be housed in the beautiful PNCA. ADA accessible. Centrally-located, near many major transit lines.

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Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns, and Moonage Daydreams

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

Inspired by the one and only superhero, extraterrestrial, and rock-and-roll deity in history, Michael and Laurie Allred’s Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns, and Moonage Daydreams (Insight) is the original graphic memoir of the great Ziggy Stardust! In life, David Bowie was one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, seducing generations of fans with both his music and his counterculture persona. In death, the cult of Bowie has only intensified. The Allreds will be joined in conversation by Ben Saunders, director of the University of Oregon’s Comics and Cartoon Studies program.

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Brianna Grisby

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 January 11th, we'll have a feature from Brianna Grisby, mini-features from Julia Gaskill & Stephen Meads, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Brianna Grisby Brianna Grisby is a spoken word poet born and raised in Portland Oregon. She was the 2018 grand slam champion. She has been on the Portland unified slams team twice and will be representing Portland Poetry Slam at the 2020 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Dallas Texas. She loves using her voice to advocate for others, and to help people feel valid. MINI-FEATURES FROM: Julia Gaskill Julia Gaskill (she/her) is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. She has…

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MC Hyland & Chloë Bass

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

This Saturday, January 11, poet and book artist MC Hyland will be in Portland and reading from her latest collection, THE END (Sidebrow 2019). She’ll be joined by New York artist and public practitioner Chloë Bass. MC Hyland is a poet, publisher, scholar, teacher, and public artist. Her poems have been published in journals in the US, UK, and Australia, and she is the author of two full-length books of poetry—THE END (Sidebrow, 2019) and NEVERAGAINLAND (Lowbrow/ H_NGM_N)—and a dozen poetry chapbooks and artist books. From 2009-2012, she ran the Pocket Lab Reading Series in Minneapolis with Jeff Peterson, and she now occasionally curates poetry readings in New York City with various friends. The founding editor of DoubleCross Press, she has worked at Minnesota Center…

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