Other People’s Poems!
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United StatesCome recite someone else's poem from memory, or just listen. First Fridays 7pm sharp
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Readings
Unamerican Scum Launch Party
The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin King Shot and Eraserhead Press to celebrate the release of Cody Goodfellow's new novels, UNAMERICA and SCUM OF THE EARTH. Readings by John Skipp, John Shirley, Michael Kazepis, Nathan Carson and Cody Goodfellow. Sick beats! Door prizes! Drink specials! EXPIATION! No cover!
Free
Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings
Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United StatesWordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by Nova PDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday July 6th, we'll have a feature from Nani Jones and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Nani Jones Nani lives in Portland, Oregon where she is involved in many poetry platforms. An upcoming poet, with passion for social justice, she has been featured at The People’s Poet and is currently on Portland’s Slamlandia team. *** Sign-ups start at 5:30, show starts at 6PM. On first and third Saturdays each performer in the open mic gets 10 minutes, there are only 8 slots available and the list order is randomized. Come share your words and join us for a night of open mic, a great feature…
Free
Reading of James Tate’s The Government Lake
Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United StatesCelebrate the official PDX release of James Tate’s posthumous collection of poems, The Government Lake. Everyone who shows up is invited to read one or two of their favorite James Tate poems, and one poem at random from the new and final collection. Available for purchase will be copies of The Government Lake and a limited-edition risograph broadside designed by Zachary Schomburg of “I Sat at My Desk and Contemplated Everything I Had Accomplished,” the last poem from the collection.
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Dovesong Labs Salon Series 002
The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United StatesTHE SECOND salon & first of the summer! ft Leigh Nishi-Strattner local poetry legend & international influencer, John Manuel Arias a poetry & prose stunt queen visiting from DC, & Callum Angus, Portland's newest nature fave fiction professor. Leigh Nishi-Strattner is a ghost in a girl-shaped body. Currently, she is haunting a pre-war apartment in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her latest book Bone Honey, published in 2018 by Club Soft Things, is available for purchase online at www.clubsoftthings.com/shop. The way to her heart is a bouquet of freshly cut white florals tied with a ribbon. (That’s a hint). (@ex_waifu on IG) JOHN MANUEL ARIAS is a gay, Costa Rican and Uruguayan poet back in Washington, DC after many years. He is a Canto Mundo…
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SongbookPDX 16
American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United StatesWriters on the songs that terrified and inspired them. Seven writers, seven stories, seven songs, unlimited connections. Writers for Songbook PDX 16: Nastashia Minto Jessica Ann Dena Rash Guzman Debby Dodds Joshua James Amberson Andrew Fort Adam Strong
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Tin House Summer Workshop Readings: Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jamel Brinkley, and Kaveh Akbar
Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, United States8:00 pm, Cerf Amphitheater – Signing to Follow Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jamel Brinkley, Kaveh Akbar Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon, and Guernica, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco, and works with…
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Reading: Mary Lea Carroll: Saint Everywhere
Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United StatesAnnie Bloom's welcomes California author Mary Lea Carroll to read from her book Saint Everywhere. While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew fascinated with the remarkable story of St. Catherine of Siena and made a resolution: Whenever she was lucky enough to travel, if a shrine dedicated to a female saint was nearby, she'd visit it and learn about her. What started as a hobby grew into a journey she never expected, one rich with challenges and cappuccinos, doubts and inspiration, glasses of wine with strangers and moments of transcendence. Over eight quests, Carroll takes readers along with her as she seeks to learn something from a few great women of history, while looking for ways to be a better citizen of the world.…
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Robert Beatty
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesSerafina and Braeden make an epic return in the hotly anticipated fourth installment of Robert Beatty's Serafina series. Serafina, the Guardian of Biltmore Estate, has won battle after battle against the dark forces encroaching on her home. Now, tranquility has returned to Biltmore. Serafina doesn't trust it. She patrols the grounds night and day, hardly sleeping, uncertain of her place after her best friend Braeden Vanderbilt's departure for boarding school in New York. When Mr. Vanderbilt, the kind master of Biltmore, asks Serafina to move upstairs into one of the house's grandest rooms, she's sure it's to keep an eye on the guests who have arrived for the estate's annual hunt. But as Serafina investigates, she becomes more and more unsettled by what Biltmore has…
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Hilary Kearney
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesAt the heart of every beehive is a queen bee. Since her well-being is linked to the well-being of the entire colony, the ability to find her among the residents of the hive is an essential beekeeping skill. In QueenSpotting (Storey), experienced beekeeper and professional “swarm catcher” Hilary Kearney challenges readers to “spot the queen” with 48 fold-out visual puzzles — vivid up-close photos of the queen hidden among her many subjects. QueenSpotting celebrates the unique, fascinating life of the queen bee and chronicles royal hive happenings such as The Virgin Death Match, The Nuptual Flight — when the queen mates with a cloud of male drones high in the air — and the dramatic Exodus of the Swarm from the hive.
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