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Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday August 31st, we'll have a feature from Christopher Luna, two mini features from Toni Lumbrazo Luna & Morgan Paige, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Christopher Luna Christopher Luna served as the first Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA from 2013-2017. His first full-length collection of poetry, Message from the Vessel in a Dream, was published by Flowstone Press in 2018. Luna has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and is the co-founder, with Toni Lumbrazo Luna, of Printed Matter Vancouver, a small press for Northwest writers which also provides writing coaching, editing, and manuscript review. He has hosted the popular…

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Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We welcome Kate Carroll De Gutes, Mat Johnson, and Sallie Tisdale to the store at 7 pm on Wednesday, September 4th, to read from the newly published anthology Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, edited by Lise Funderburg and published by the University of Nebraska Press. In this new collection, twenty-five authors – including Ann Patchett, Daniel Mendelsohn, Jane Hamilton, and S. Bear Bergman – deftly explore a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, reflecting on how it affects the lives they lead today and how it shifts their relationship to that parent (sometimes posthumously) and to their sense of self. Together, their essays form a prismatic meditation on how we make fresh sense of ourselves and our parents when we see the pieces of…

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One Page Wednesday: September

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

Writers, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh work. One Page Wednesday is  a series hosted by Natalie Serber. An opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented Portland writers. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read  – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired!  Please, no reading from electronic devices. September’s featured readers are Chelsea Biondolillo and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird: Essays and two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong. She is a 2019 Oregon Literary fellow in nonfiction and holds a BFA in photography from the Pacific NW College of Art and an MFA in creative writing and environmental studies…

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Lisa Congdon

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

Author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to Find Your Artistic Voice (Chronicle), a guide to the process of artistic self-discovery. Featuring advice from Congdon herself and interviews with a roster of established artists, illustrators, and creatives, her one-of-a-kind book will show readers how to identify and nurture their own visual identities, navigate the influence of artists they admire, push through fear and insecurity, and appreciate the value of their personal journeys.

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LEMON WORLD 8

Lone Fir Cemetery Southeast 26th Avenue and Southeast Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

A weekly poetry reading series that takes place in Lone Fir Cemetery. Lemon World 8 features poetry by Abby Castillo, Dodd, and Deep Listening with Malcolm *Reading site is visible from the cemetery entrance on the Morrison side across from the Belmont Apartments*

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Chronicles of a Blessed Man – Paul Haber

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading from Chronicles of a Blessed Man, a memoir by Paul Haber. Paul Haber is a former career soldier- a Marine, then Special Forces (Green Beret) and Ranger. After retiring from the service, he held several jobs, including security officer, bodyguard, and martial arts instructor, before “finding his niche” with the Arizona Department of Corrections; progressing from Officer to Sergeant, to a type of counselor called Corrections Officer III, before taking an early retirement. His personal life was not quite as successful. Ten years after a marriage to a woman he barely knew, he became divorced and hurried into another, against the advice of his parents and friends. He didn’t realize at the time that he was, in great measure, the cause…

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Ganesh Sitaraman

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

Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option. Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life are public options – yet they are seldom celebrated as such. Ganesh Sitaraman’s The Public Option (Harvard) (cowritten with Anne Alstott) challenges decades of received wisdom about the proper role of government and considers the improvements that could come from the expansion of public options.

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Other People’s Poems!

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Come recite someone else's poem from memory, or just listen. First Fridays 7pm sharp

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2019 Comics Certificate Program Graduation

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Please join the Certificate Program Faculty, Staff and community to celebrate the graduation of the 2019 Comics Cohort. Emma Rust and Kacy McKinney will be sharing their new comics publications, and copies will be available for purchase. 2019 Comics Graduation Program: 7-7:30pm Mingle 7:30-8:30 Readings & Graduation Remarks 8:30-9pm Refreshments and Cake *The IPRC is located in Suite 155 of the Gardeners & Ranchers Building at 318 SE Main St. The ADA Accessible entrance is on SE Madison St. Please call the front desk at (503)827-0249 to have a staff member open the door on SE Madison St.

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