A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Author and psychotherapist Rebecca Alexander reads and signs copies of her new book, A Kids Book About Body Image, helping kids of all races, genders, and sizes have a better understanding of body image and tune out the noise and unhealthy messaging that often surrounds the topic.
Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon mystery authors W.H. "Bill" Cameron and J.S. James. Crossroad is Oregon author W.H. Cameron's latest mystery. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor a clear indication she was even part of the accident. The crash offers plenty…
We are pleased to welcome Portland poet Dan Raphael to read from his new books of poems, Manything, published by Unlikely Books. Raphael is a master of verse and performance, and this post-Beat tome contains sixty-five of his wild, vivid trips-in-verse. Raphael was born in Pittsburgh and attended Cornell University, Bowling Green State University, and Western Washington University. Since the 1970s, he has lived in the Northwest, working and sharing the fruits of his labor as a poet, literary activist, performer, editor, and reading host. He retired from the Oregon DMV after thirty-three years and lives in Portland with his wife Melba and more than 400 plant varieties. Most Wednesdays he writes and records a “current events poem” for the KBOO evening news. Raphael has…
When it comes to friendship, family, and romance, we all want the same things: to love and be loved, to communicate, to fight fair, and to feel okay in our own skin. Jessica Lanyadoo’s Astrology for Real Relationships (Ten Speed) is a modern, practical guide that will help you understand your blind spots, blocks, and fears so you can make choices that leave you happy and fulfilled. Full of real talk about attraction, dating, sex, frenemies, self-love, and more, this book will help you build and maintain strong connections and get what you really want in relationships, not what you think you should want.