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Kate Gray and Armin Tolentino

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

We welcome poets Kate Gray and Armin Tolentino reading from their newest collections: For Every Girl (Widow and Orphan House) and We Meant to Bring it Home Alive (Alternating Current Press), respectively, at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 17th. For Every Girl is a love song to and celebration of the girl, the queer, the survivor in all of us. In these poems we find not only testimony to the resiliency of girls but an invitation to delight in the pure pleasure of their joy. The book features new and selected poems and includes a conversation between Gray and Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen. Frances Payne Adler, poet and founder of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU-Monterey Bay, says “I am…

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Reading: Jack Moody: Dancing to Broken Records

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Jack Moody to read from his fiction collection, Dancing to Broken Records. Henry Gallagher is a failure. Born into a broken family, now a young alcoholic struggling with mental illness, Henry is successful at one thing: destroying his life. While spending his time and waning finances at local bars and on any woman who will show him affection, Henry reflects on his past, seeing no future other than the one he believes has been preordained for him. From a funeral in Ireland, to a chance meeting with a German millionaire, to a booze-soaked and bloody version of Last Tango in Paris, Henry's life is both darkly humorous and unapologetically human. Accompanied by stories of other down and out characters fighting…

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April Henry & Carolyn O’Doherty

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

When a shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, six teen misfits are trapped. Many of them are hiding impossible secrets, and all of them have a lot at stake. Can they set aside their differences and band together to fight for survival? Run, Hide, Fight Back (Henry Holt) is April Henry’s new standalone YA thriller. In Unleashed (Boyds Mill), the second book in Carolyn O’Doherty’s riveting Rewind trilogy for teens, Alex finds that the city outside the Center is more complicated and dangerous than she’d imagined – and that some of the dangers lie within herself.

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Whitenoise Project 22 + Caldera

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

Whitenoise Project 22 + Caldera: Jolly Wrapper / Ahmed / Cheuk / Peñaloza September 17, 2019 7:00 p.m. Literary Arts (925 SW Washington St., Portland, OR 97205) Join Whitenoise Project and Caldera for a special event at Literary Arts! The night will feature readings and book signings from alumni of Caldera’s Youth Program and Artists in Residence (AiR) Program, including authors Michelle Peñaloza, Leland Cheuk, and Farooq Ahmed, all of whom have just-published or soon-to-be published books that were completed at Caldera. Special guest Jolly Wrapper will open the evening.

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Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

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

Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we have been led to believe. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules, and these approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. The real world, in contrast, is wildly complex and open-ended. Gary Marcus’s Rebooting AI (Pantheon) (coauthored by Ernest Davis) provides a clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of how a new generation of AI can make our lives better.

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