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Annual Family Breakfast: Broadcast Edition

Online N/A, Portland

Our annual family breakfast is going virtual again this year on 09/30, and you're invited to join us! We'll be celebrating all of our annual successes, and highlighting our newest program, Mobile Journalism (MoJo), which aims to give unhoused folks the tools and skills to be the architects of their own stories. Plus, just like your weekly paper, there will be vendor poetry, profiles and more! RSVP and learn more about the event: avcast.me/streetroots2021 If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Hogan at andrew@streetroots.org.

Free

Reading: Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland writers Mary Fifield and Kristin Thiel, editors of Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene, for a group reading and discussion. The co-editors will be joined by fellow contributors Jan Underwood and Jack Kirne. Omar El Akkad, who blurbed the book, will be reading from a story by contributor Carlos Labbé. About Fire & Water: A Sámi woman studying Alaska fish populations sees our past and future through their present signs of stress and her ancestral knowledge. A teenager faces a permanent drought in Australia and her own sexual desire. An unemployed man in Wisconsin marvels as a motley parade of animals makes his trailer their portal to a world untrammeled by humans. Featuring short fiction from authors around the globe, Fire…

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Free

Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Angelique Palmer

Online N/A, Portland

We're so incredibly excited for Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Angelique Palmer this upcoming Thursday! Here's what you need to know about this month's feature: Angelique Palmer (she/her) is a performance poet, a finalist in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and a member of the 2017 Busboys and Poets/Beltway Poetry Slam Team. Author of The Chambermaid’s Style Guide, and the upcoming Also Dark (Etruscan Press), she’s a Florida State University Creative Writing graduate who calls northern Virginia home. Her work centers on Black Femme Narratives, Awkward Queerness, and Mental Health & Recovery. She makes her own ice cream. Slamlandia is hosting another digital poetry open mic. This open mic - only poetry, no music please - will take place on September 30th.…

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