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Slamlandia

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

Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old to come share their work. We strive towards a safer space for poets to read their own poetry, witness others, and participate in community. This event takes place in-person. Proof of Covid-19 vaccine or a negative PCR test is required for admittance. Please see our Covid-19 guidelines for in-person events at Literary Arts. Hosted by Julia Gaskill. Julia Gaskill Julia Gaskill is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. Her poetry examines the tightrope we sometimes walk of feeling our voices censored and also being unabashedly ourselves. Her poems touch on everyday…

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Filament Reading Series

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Filament is BACK! Filament is an all-genre Creative Writing Reading series from Portland State’s MFA Program. Join us on February 17 from 7 - 8:30 PM at Corporeal Writing to hear five talented writers from the Creative Writing program read their work! Free to attend. Masks and Vaccine Cards Required. Featuring: Joshua Stanek, Natalie Flaherty, Nora Broker, Jay Butler, and Alex Roselio De La Cruz

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Fonograf Listening Party: John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre & More Poets [POSTPONED]

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Join us Friday, Feb. 24th for a listening party in celebration of Fonograf's first archival LP, John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre, 1976. Readings by Sarah Bartlett, Natalie Garyet, Emmi Greer, and Karolinn Fiscaletti, each will be reading a favorite Ashbery poem, along with a few of their own poems. Drinks, records, books, etc. 7 PM

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SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL [POSTPONED]

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Doors open at 7:00 pm; reading at 7:30 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step, the selected poems of Orides Fontela, is forthcoming from…

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Fonograf Listening Party: John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre & More Poets

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Take two: 7 PM on March 3rd at Dorsa Brevia in downtown PDX. Readings by Sarah Bartlett, Natalie Garyet, Emmi Greer, and Karolinn Fiscaletti. Hope to see you for real this time! Join us Friday, March 3rd for a listening party in celebration of Fonograf‘s first archival LP, John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre, 1976. Readings by Sarah Bartlett, Natalie Garyet, Emmi Greer, and Karolinn Fiscaletti, each will be reading a favorite Ashbery poem, along with a few of their own poems. Drinks, records, books, etc. 7 PM

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SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Please note new date & time: Sunday, March 5 Doors open at 5:30 pm; reading at 6:00 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step,…

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Ed Roberson Reading

PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Monday, Mar 6 6pm Smith 338 The PSU Program in Creative Writing is pleased to host the poet Ed Roberson. This event is cosponsored by the Black Studies Department. The in-person reading is free and open to the public; it will be livestreamed via the program's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PSUCreativeWriting Ed Roberson is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including MPH and Other Road Poems (Verge Books, 2021) and Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021). His most recent collection, Aquarium Works (Nion Editions, 2022), details his experiences as a diver and tankman at the Pittsburgh AquaZoo in the 1960s. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Roberson also worked in the area’s steel mills, in an advertising graphics agency, and as a research assistant in…

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Works on Paper: Neal Kosaly-Meyer performs Finnegans Wake

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound presents Neal Kosaly-Meyer A Finnegans Wake Project Saturday, March 11 5:30 pm: Doors open 6:00 pm: Lecture and discussion, followed by a short break 7:30 pm: Performance (2.5 hours without a break) $10-20 suggested donation; no one turned away Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 503-388-7665 ========================== A Finnegans Wake Project, now in its eleventh year, is Neal Kosaly-Meyer’s effort to learn and perform, from memory, and with acute attention to musical detail, each of the seventeen episodes of James Joyce's final novel Finnegans Wake. At Passages Bookshop, Kosaly-Meyer will present Part II, Chapter 1 (the ninth chapter), in its entirety, preceded by a short introductory lecture and a moderated discussion. ========================== Neal Kosaly-Meyer is a…

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Constellation #3: Correa, Smith, Keil

Tin House 2617 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

After a memorable gathering last month, we invite you to join us at a new Constellation. In March we're hosting local writer Michelle Ruiz Keil and two writers from the Carolyn Moore Writers House residency: Cristina Correa and Kira Brooke Smith. Doors open at 6:45 and the reading starts around 7:15. Cristina Correa (she/her) is from Chicago and is the recipient of awards from CantoMundo, VONA/Voices, Hedgebrook Foundation, and more. Her writing has been featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Missouri Review, Obsidian, NPR’s Latino USA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her poem “Reflection from a Bridge” was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith in the Best New Poets series. Kira Brooke Smith (she/her) is a nonfiction…

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Slamlandia

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

Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old to come share their work. We strive towards a safer space for poets to read their own poetry, witness others, and participate in community. This event takes place in-person. Proof of Covid-19 vaccine or a negative PCR test is required for admittance. Please see our Covid-19 guidelines for in-person events at Literary Arts. Hosted by Julia Gaskill. Julia Gaskill Julia Gaskill is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. Her poetry examines the tightrope we sometimes walk of feeling our voices censored and also being unabashedly ourselves. Her poems touch on everyday…

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