Orpheus 2019 Night Four
Fort Vancouver High School 5700 East 18th Street, Vancouver, WA, United StatesFeatured writers: Christopher Ryan Gonzalez, Marissa Korbel, Erika Worth
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Readings
Save Yourself – Julie Grandstaff
Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United StatesImagine what it would feel like if you had enough money to survive a medical emergency or a short time out of work, or if you had enough money set aside to pursue your dreams or retire without worrying about money. Save Yourself: Your Guide to Saving for Retirement and Building Financial Security will show you how to take control of your finances and build the confidence and security you’ve been wanting. It is a comprehensive guide to saving for retirement and shoring up your financial security so you can do whatever it is you want. Through the stories of real people, it shows you exactly how you can make the changes that will allow you to save for a long and secure retirement so that…
Free
Everything is Fine Series #9
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United StatesA casual monthly reading to help you forget all that other sh*t. Now in its new home at Mother Foucault’s, 3rd Wednesdays after May (because this is the 4th Wednesday).
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Eat Like a Fish
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesPart memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish (Knopf), Bren Smith – a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer – shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!).
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Abbigail N. Rosewood
Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United StatesAbbigail N. Rosewood’s luminous debut novel, If I Had Two Lives (Europa), follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an immigrant in the United States – and her necessary return to her homeland. An inspiring meditation on love, loss, and the presence of a past that never dies, Rosewood’s novel explores the ancient question: Do we value the people in our lives because of who they are, or because of what we need them to be?
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An Armful of Words: Celebrating the Belmont HMart
High Low Art Space 936 SE 34th Ave, Portland, OR, United States(This is a remake for it to be a public event!) Hi Portland Fam! To celebrate the opening of the Belmont HMart, the folks at High/Low Art Space and I are organizing an AAPI literary reading! Come enjoy an Armful of Words with a handful of writers!! There will be light snacks purchased direct from the HMart! There will be more art on the walls, like this amazing tiger by Conner Choi. Plus work by Seungdo Hyun. This is a space for building community, art, and solidarity. Bring your friends! Friday May 24 6pm Suggested donation $0 - $10 High/Low Art Space 936 SE 34th Ave
Free – $10
Old Pal Issue 2 Reading
Private Residence - Email for Address 0 SE Nonexistant Ln, Portland, OR, United StatesThree contributors to Old Pal, Jac Nelson, Rose Swartz, and Jenessa Vanzutphen, read from their work across genres at a friendly, private residence. All are welcome to join! Please email editors@oldpalmag.com for the address. You can find our readers' work in Issue 2 of Old Pal and / or learn more about them below. JAC NELSON is a multimedia poet living between the ancestral lands of the Nisqually people (at Puget Sound) and of the Očeti Šakówiŋ (at the Minnesota River). Their work begins with art and artist as ethical questions that emerge from inherited context: ancestry, language, land, trauma, coercion, and decision activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Jac continues to learn about, engage with, and resist the ways they benefit…
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PZS Zine Anthology Release and Reading
IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United StatesCelebrating year 19 of the Portland Zine Symposium, PZS will be releasing our fundraiser anthology, on the theme "Mistakes". Come buy a zine and support PZS! Readers To Be Announced doors at 6:30 // readers promptly at 7 bring money for a zine or to donate to PZS // NOTAFLOF
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Karen Russell in Conversation With Leni Zumas
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesPulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives is on full display in the eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories in her new collection, Orange World and Other Stories (Knopf). Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master, showcasing Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Russell will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.
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Book Launch for The Supernormal Legacy book 3, Emerge
Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United StatesCome help me launch Emerge into the world!
Free
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