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Mt. St. Helens: Post-Eruption Recovery and Resilience

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join Ruby McConnell (author of GROUND TRUTH) and Eric Wagner (author of AFTER THE BLAST) for a reading and discussion at the 40th-anniversary mark of the Mt. St. Helens 1980 eruption. They'll share their personal stories of Mt. St. Helens, discuss the most significant volcanic eruption in modern U.S. history, and the resilience and recovery of the surrounding land. Liz Prato (author of Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i) will host this discussion. Visit this link to register: https://OvercupBooks.webinarninja.com/live-webinars/326664/register

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Oregon Reads Aloud: A SMART Read-A-Thon

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

There is nothing more familiar and comforting than reading aloud together. On May 16, the SMART Reading community invites you into our living rooms for the longest SMART Reading session ever, Oregon Reads Aloud: A SMART Read-A-Thon. Join us here and on YouTube Live, where SMART Reading supporters, community leaders, and volunteers will be reading popular children's book titles from 10am to 10pm to celebrate and support Oregon's youngest readers. Now, more than ever, we know that providing books to our students is critical. Our goal is to raise $30,000 by the end of the day on May 16 to provide a book for every student in SMART Reading across the state. Here's how you can help:  1. Tune in on May 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cSGJU4T7vc&feature=youtu.be 2.…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tune in this Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. This is our last regular show. We may do more shows or other virtual events if we get enough submissions and general interest in the show. It's been a ride. Stay safe and healthy, friends! -- Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings. You can submit your poetry as an audio recording to us. In the audio recording, please introduce yourself, tell listeners where to find your work online and any other message you want to share, and of course your poems. If you have any virtual events you are a part of feel free to share how to find them. Please make…

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First Matter Press Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join First Matter Press for a poetry reading and open mic on Saturday, May 16 at 6:00! Peter Hamer, Eitan Codish, and K. M. Lighthouse, joined by guests, will read from their forthcoming books to be released in summer/fall 2020 by First Matter Press. Details will be given about our open submission period as well! Go to our website to rsvp, sign up for an open mic spot, and receive the zoom link at: http://www.firstmatterpress.org/rsvp.html The readings begin at 6:00. Eitan Codish is a poet, translator, social worker, and school counselor currently based in Portland, Oregon. His poems have appeared in Epicenter, Nimrod, Polaris, and others, and have been translated into Farsi, Hebrew, and Italian. Peter Hamer lives in Estacada, Oregon. He sits on the…

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A Virtual Open Mic feat. Eric Sirota

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a Virtual Open Mic! We will make a post on the day of the event for folks to sign up! You will have 3 minutes to read a poem! With a featured performance by Eric Sirota! More about Eric: Eric Sirota is a poet and public interest lawyer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His chapbook Giveth and Taketh was recently published by Wild Pressed Books. His work has been featured by Button Poetry, Entropy!, The Portland Review, and elsewhere. By day, he supervises law students who provide free legal services to veterans. You can't miss him. He's the tallest Jew for miles. This event will be held on Zoom. We will post a link 15 minutes before the event for folks to…

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HYPNOZINE Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A release party for us all to slip into the HYPNO-verse. HYPNOZINE: THE BIRTH OF HYPNO is an illustrated psychedelic science fiction novel that ebbs and flows between narrative and poetry written by Jason Squamata, with illustrations and design by Andrew Mc Kenzie. It’s a mythology from a weird future that shifts and shimmers on the other side of our chaos. A book-shaped game that kisses the eye and says “play.”

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The Last Stand (third Monday)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Last Stand at Wildwood Well not actually at the bar. This is a virtual reading where we read virtual... no wait REAL poetry, um virtually.

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Virtual Story Time with Nikki McClure

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Throwing it back to better days when Nikki McClure read her latest picture book What Will These Hands Make? And thinking ahead to brighter days when she'll read to us- virtually!- her book, Mama, Is It Summer Yet? Join us Tuesday, May 19th at 11am right here on our Facebook page!

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HOCUS Reading: The Tarot

Rose City Coffee Co. - Brooklyn Park 3370 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR, United States

HOCUS is a quarterly reading event in the guise of a secret society. Our reading events are simultaneously silly and serious. "Hilarious," "profound," "close to the bone," and "goofy" are all words which were bandied about by attendees of our last event.

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Slamlandia Poetry Open Mic ft. Eric Sirota

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We are pleased to announce that Slamlandia will be hosting another digital poetry open mic this month - with a feature from Eric Sirota! This open mic - only poetry, no music please - will take place on May 21st. We'll be hosting this event with the help of Literary Arts. You can access our Zoom link here: https://literary-arts.org/event/literary-arts-online-slamlandia-may-21/ Sign ups for the open mic will be posted at 6:30pm day of via Facebook posts and an Instagram story. Comment / reply to get your name on the list. Open mic will promptly begin at 7pm. Poets gets 3 minutes to share poetry - please do not go over time! If poets are late comers and join the chat after it's well in session, they…

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