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Jordan Ifueko in Conversation With Bethany C. Morrow

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the Crown Prince’s Council of 11. If she’s picked, she’ll be joined with the other Council members through the Ray, a bond deeper than blood. That closeness is irresistible to Tarisai, who has always wanted to belong somewhere. But The Lady has other ideas, including a magical wish that Tarisai is compelled to obey: Kill…

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Erase the Patriarchy! 9.15 UHell Event

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join University of Hell Press and anthology editor Isobel O'Hare for two Zoom-based launch events in celebration of Erase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry. Erasure artists will display their work on-screen and talk about their process. There will be time at the end for Q&A. The webinar ID for both events is 841-0632-8517. We look forward to seeing you! 9.15 Event Lineup Joanna Valente Katie Manning Tracy Gold Tyler Vile Ki Russell Kitty Stryker Abigail Zimmer Caitlin Cowan Tara Shea Burke Adra Raine Zann Carter Melinda Smith and Caren Florance

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Joanna Rose in Conversation With Susan Leslie Moore

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters — she didn't know he was "that kind of Catholic" — and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that. Pattianne Anthony is less a thinker than a dreamer, and she finds out the hard way that she doesn't want a husband, much less a baby, and that getting out of a marriage is a lot harder than getting into it,…

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Rob Bell in Conversation with the band Joseph

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

In his profound and deeply personal new book, New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell explores the endless dynamic questions and connections that have shaped his life to provide powerful insight into understanding your purpose and place in the world. Our home is a universe of endless dynamic connections that never stop inviting us to participate in the great mysterious love at the heart of it all. Everything Is Spiritual (St. Martin’s Essentials) is a brief history of how these ideas about creation, love, and connection shaped the author — and can shape every one of us. In his new book, Bell explores the concept that what people really want, more than anything, is to understand their purpose here — so much so that it…

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Author Reading: rough house by tina ontiveros and Remote by DJ Lee

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

DJ Lee, author of the March release Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots, and tina ontiveros, author of the forthcoming rough house, join us for an evening of stunning prose and frank conversation about the particular complexities of parent/child relationships and how they shape who we are. Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots Skillfully intertwining history, outdoor adventure, and mystery, Lee’s memoir is an engaging contribution to the growing body of literature on women and wilderness and a lyrical tribute to the spiritual connection between people and the natural world. Lee is a Regents Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Washington State University, the Director of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project, and a scholar-fellow at the Black Earth Institute. rough house In searingly honest,…

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Livestream Reading: Elena Taylor, Baron Birtcher, Kathleen Valenti

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Northwest mystery authors Elena Taylor, Baron Birtcher, and Kathleen Valenti for a livestream reading from their new novels. Resgister here: In Washington author Elena Taylor's novel All We Buried, interim sheriff Elizabeth "Bet" Rivers has always had one repeat nightmare: a shadowy figure throwing a suspicious object into her hometown lake in Collier, Washington. Then the report arrives. In the woods of the Cascade mountain range, right in her jurisdiction, a body floats to the surface of Lake Collier. The more she learns the tragic history of Collier, the more Bet realizes she doesn't know the townspeople as well as she thought, and nothing can prepare her for what she is about to discover. Portland author Baron Birtcher's Fistful of Rain is…

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Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Shanna Alden + Erin Schick

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Slamlandia is hosting another digital poetry open mic. This open mic - only poetry, no music please - will take place on September 17th. We'll be hosting this event with the help of Literary Arts. You can access our Zoom link in advance. Here is the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclc-mgpzMtEtR8Ii0uuPMS7SIWwGZLo5Ua Sign ups for the open mic will be posted at 6:30pm PT 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. We will have a double feature from Shanna Alden and Erin Schick. Shanna Alden (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary poet in the Pacific…

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STAY HOME STAY QUEER

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for our September edition of Queer PDXpression. Stay Home Stay Queer. we will be going live on zoom at 7:30 pm. the goal this month is Write Drunk Edit Sober. we will drop the room code and password the week of.

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Tiffany D. Cross in Conversation With Elie Mystal

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Black voters were critical to the Democrats’ 2018 blue wave. In fact, 90 percent of Black voters supported Democratic House candidates, compared to just 53 percent of all voters. Despite media narratives, this was not a fluke. Throughout U.S. history, Black people have played a crucial role in the shaping of the American experiment. Yet still, this powerful voting bloc is often dismissed as some “amorphous” deviation, argues political analyst Tiffany D. Cross. Say it Louder! (Amistad) is Cross’s explosive examination of how America’s composition was designed to exclude Black voters, but paradoxically would likely cease to exist without them. With multiple tentacles stretching into the cable news echo chamber, campaign leadership, and Black voter data, Cross creates a wrinkle in time with a reflective…

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Kids’ Storytime with The Tiny Chef and Fwens

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Tiny Chef, a small herbivore with an enormous heart, goes on a quest to find his missing recipe book in The Tiny Chef and da Mishing Weshipee Blook (Razorbill), an irresistible debut picture book from the creators of @TheTinyChefShow. The Tiny Chef is at home in his kitchen on a beautiful day, but not all is well inside the Chef’s stump. He’s misplaced his favorite recipe book — the one he uses to cook all of his best dishes, like his famous stew, which he always makes on the first day of fall, and that day is here! What is the Chef to do! This kids’ storytime event will feature The Tiny Chef’s entourage of Human helpers, Rachel Larsen, Adam Reid, and Ozlem “Ozi”…

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