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Stories and Songs with Ken Scholes

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Come out for an evening of stories and songs with local author and musician Ken Scholes. Sample the food, music, and books of this unique Portland venue! Ken Scholes is the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of five novels and over fifty short stories.  His work has appeared in print for nearly twenty years.  His series, The Psalms of Isaak, is published by Tor Books and his short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press.

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Future Prairie: Spring Fling

The Hallowed Halls 4420 SE 64th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Please join the artists of Future Prairie as we dance our way through camellia season and into the cherry blossoms. This will be our spring fling: calling on visions of paradise, utopia, dreams, romances, and joy. Musical performances by Joni Renee Whitworth, Vivian Cecylia Tylińska, and Allegra Jongeward Live painting by Jasmine Co, Kathleen Boudwin, and Megan Krzmarzick Comics by Sabine Rear Poetry by Chris Gonzalez, Julia Laxer, and Olivia Marovich Dance by Jaleesa Johnston Photography by Sam Reynolds and Kimberley Hasselbrink Lecture by Roseanna Zanna Colabella We will have American Sign Language interpreters. Thanks to a grant from CymaSpace, our show can be inclusive of the Deaf and hard of hearing community! Our queer variety show is inspired by the chautauquas of the 19th…

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Songbook PDX 15

American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

Writers on the songs that terrified and inspired them. Eight readers, eight experiences, eight readings eight songs played after the eight readers read their eight pieces. April's SongbookPDX is already on fire. Come on out for the literary mixtape you always wanted. Featuring: Carmel Breathnatch, Flint, Daniel Dagris, Chris Bleiler, Bethann Cartino, Missy Ladygo, Carol Fishbach, and Adam Strong

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Paulann Petersen

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

Paulann Petersen’s new poetry collection, One Small Sun (Salmon), takes readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a Hyderabadi shrine in India’s subcontinent. Its pages contain a meditation on postmortem photographs, an ode to the female earwig, an elegy for a grandmother’s panache. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry’s ability to bring alive again what is coded into the blood, these poems ultimately form an arc of an aging woman’s life. This collection tells the tales of what she has always realized, is ever learning, but – only through poetry’s vehicle – can truly know.

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Street Roots Vendor Poetry Reading

Collins Gallery 801 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Street Roots is a local weekly newspaper that provides economic opportunities each year to more than 700 vendors who are experiencing homelessness and poverty. Street Roots also has a thriving community of poets and writers. Come listen to some of the talented poets read their work. Snacks provided. Made possible by The National Endowment for the Humanities Fund of The Library Foundation.

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Oregon Book Awards: Poetry, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Finalists reading

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

A reading with some of the Oregon Book Awards finalists in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction: manuel arturo abreu David Biespiel Patrick deWitt Nick Dybek Apricot Irving John Larison Matthew Minicucci Dionisia Morales Meaghan O’Connell Wendy Willis Beth Wood Taylor Zajonc Leni Zumas

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Rob Roberge in Conversation With Joshua Mohr

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

When Rob Roberge learns that he’s likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to record the most formative moments of his life – ranging from the brutal murder of his childhood girlfriend, to a diagnosis of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, to opening for indie band Yo La Tengo. As Liar (Future Tense) twists and turns through Roberge’s life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll on its head. Roberge will be joined in conversation with Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life.

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Damon Krukowski

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

Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In his new book, writer-musician Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In Ways of Hearing (MIT) – modeled on Ways of Seeing, John Berger's influential 1972 book on visual culture – Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Krukowski lays out a choice: Do we want a world enriched by the messiness of noise, or one that strives toward the purity of signal only?

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David Vann

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

In his riveting new novel, Prix Médicis étranger winner David Vann reimagines his father’s final days. Halibut on the Moon (Grove) traces the roots of mental illness in one man’s life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. In vivid and haunting prose, Vann offers us an aching portrait of a mind in peril, searching desperately for some hope of redemption.

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Reading: Angus Vieira

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Author, poet, photographer, and bullshit artist.

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