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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Hold on tight and learn about weather and storms in illustrator Jonathan Hill’s Science Comics: Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate (written by MK Reed) (First Second), an action-packed nonfiction graphic novel for middle-grade readers. Furious floods, looming landslides, terrifying tornadoes, ferocious forest fires! Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something?
The Stoner Babes Reading celebrates empowerment. Join us as we listen to bad ass, gorgeous, intelligent, motivated and talented humans share their stories! The Rose City Book Pub has delicious food and drink. This is also a coloring party, so we can all color while we listen to these wonderful readers! The incredible readers are: Domi Shoemaker Nastashia Minto Mary Mandeville Anya Pearson Beth Cartino Valarie Rae Leah Baer Jewels Bring your friends, sisters, lovers and mothers.
**NOTE: Start time changed to 3:30pm. First reader will begin at 3:45pm. FREE READING Hodgepodge is back in May! Still a free event, still for the 21+ crowd, still at the Jade Lounge, at a *new time*. Our May reading will be hosted by Sione Aeschliman and feature special guests Chuck Caruso, Elle Marr, Erika Brumett, and Tiffany Grimes. The Readers: CHUCK CARUSO’s perverse tales make you snicker at things you shouldn’t laugh about, and then they punch you in the gut. https://chuckcaruso.com/ ELLE MARR writes adult thrillers and short fiction. She loves spooking herself around dark corners, and is excited for her debut novel, The Missing Sister, to be published in Spring 2020 by Thomas & Mercer Publishing. https://ellemarr.com/ Through science, history, parascience, and…
Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by Nova PDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday May 11th, we'll have a feature from Nastashia Minto, two mini features from Rachel Ancheta & Chris Gonzalez, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Nastashia Minto is an African American woman who was born in South Georgia and raised there by her grandparents. She grew up in poverty and around drugs, alcohol, and family violence. Her life experiences led her to obtain an associate’s degree in occupational therapy and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She has been writing since she was nine years old and has found that her writing offers her another way to help people. Currently residing in Portland, Oregon her debut…
A night of true stories, documentary films, photography, and radio from some of our favorite writers, performers, and musicians. Unrecorded, live onstage. Pop-Up Magazine is a live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Each evening is unique, but here are a few things to look forward to: Some of the country’s most interesting writers, filmmakers, photographers, radio producers, and illustrators share new, true stories onstage. Stories come to life on a giant screen filled with photographs, films, illustrations, and animations. Story soundtracks are composed and performed live onstage by Magik*Magik Orchestra. Curious, creative people come to see old friends and meet new ones. Venues like BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and The…
John Dodge’s A Deadly Wind (Oregon State) is a detailed account of the most powerful windstorm in recorded history to strike the West Coast. The Columbus Day Storm of Oct. 12, 1962, was a freak of nature, with deadly winds topping 100 miles per hour. The storm killed dozens, injured hundreds, damaged more than 50,000 homes, and leveled enough timber to build one million homes. A Deadly Wind tells the story spiced with human drama, Cold War tension, and Pacific Northwest history.
With species rapidly disappearing and global temperatures rising, there is more urgency than ever to act on the ecological crises we face. Leading Buddhist environmentalist Stephanie Kaza has spent her career exploring the intersection of religion and ecology. In Green Buddhism (Shambhala), she offers guidance on how people and communities can draw on Buddhist concepts and practices to live more sustainable lives on our one and only home. Kaza will also present Conversations With Trees (Shambhala), a collection of evocative meditations on the beauty, fragility, and resilience of trees.
Featured writers: Ash Good, Celeste Gurevich, Nastashia Minto, Skyler Reed
A night of true stories, documentary films, photography, and radio from some of our favorite writers, performers, and musicians. Unrecorded, live onstage. Pop-Up Magazine is a live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Each evening is unique, but here are a few things to look forward to: Some of the country’s most interesting writers, filmmakers, photographers, radio producers, and illustrators share new, true stories onstage. Stories come to life on a giant screen filled with photographs, films, illustrations, and animations. Story soundtracks are composed and performed live onstage by Magik*Magik Orchestra. Curious, creative people come to see old friends and meet new ones. Venues like BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and The…
From Jeffery Deaver, the master of suspense, comes the first novel in a thrilling new series. A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. But what seems a simple investigation quickly thrusts him into the dark heart of America’s tech hub. The Never Game (G. P. Putnam’s Sons) proves once more why “Deaver is a genius when it comes to manipulation and deception” (AP).