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Open Mic and Poetry Reading on Zoom

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Open Mic and Poetry Reading a virtual event on Zoom. Co-sponsored by the Milwaukie Poetry Series and St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church. Featured Readers are the Pendleton Poetry group. The Open Mic will follow their reading. Email Tom Hogan at tomhogan2@comcast.net (link sends e-mail) to register. You will receive a zoom link prior to the event. Plan to read 1 or 2 poems depending on the number of participants and length of the poems. If time permits additional poems will be allowed. The event will be recorded and available for viewing on demand on the Ledding Library YouTube Channel (link is external) after the event.

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Virtual Event: Kimberly Dark, Author of Damaged Like Me, In Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Kimberly Dark is the author of Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation. She joins us, along with local author Lidia Yuknavitch - most recently the author of Verge, to discuss their stories and the challenges and triumphs of living in bodies. About the book Kimberly Dark's Damaged Like Me is a series of essays and stories that reveal a complex social landscape. It shows how possible and vital it is to build roads to a more equitable and loving collective culture that includes body sovereignty, racial justice, gender equity/liberation, and much more. It does so by relying on the insights and approaches to knowledge production of those on the receiving end of inequity and violence, those whose "objectivity" on issues of oppression…

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Livestream Reading: Dana Spiotta

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Dana Spiotta for a livestream reading from her new novel, Wayward. Dana will be in conversation with Christine Schutt, author of Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYod-6rrTouGtVLK_OnwY6uC09ttA7xmjeA About Wayward: A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document. On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into the Mids--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state…

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Livestream Reading: Kelly Williams Brown

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Kelly Williams Brown, author of Adulting, for a livestream reading from her new book, Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things. She will be joined by Amy Dresner, author of the memoir My Fair Junkie. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqf-ysrzwvHtYrpZxKpm8HJj5kawCR1p-T About Easy Crafts for the Insane: From the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting comes a story about how to make something when you’re capable of nothing. Kelly Williams Brown had 700 Bad Days. Her marriage collapsed, she broke three limbs in separate and unrelated incidents, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and she fell into a deep depression that ended in what could delicately be referred to as a "rest cure" at an inpatient facility.…

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2021 Tin House Summer Workshop Conversation Series: Donika Kelly and Destiny O. Birdsong

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Continuing our week of public #thsw conversations, Donika Kelly and Destiny O. Birdsong discuss revising (and sometimes rejecting) old narratives about trauma and centering oneself in work about healing, self-care, and radical love. This morning at 8:30 am PST, with ASL interpretation.

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Jessica Hopper in Conversation With Ann Friedman

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Throughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and producing music, in all genres, through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic (MCD x FSG) features oral histories of bands such as Hole and Sleater-Kinney, interviews with the women editors of 1970s-era Rolling Stone, and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Björk, Robyn, and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl's empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary, Indiana, on the eve of Michael Jackson's death; explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved,…

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The Milwaukie Poetry Series: Emmett Wheatfall Poetry Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Emmett Wheatfall's poetry reading will be livestreamed on July 14, 2021 on the Ledding Library YouTube Channel. (link is external) Emmett Wheatfall is a published poet, playwright and recording artist. He has 2 books of poetry published by Fernwood Press, an imprint of Barclay Press. They are As Clean As A Bone (2018) and Our Scarlet Blue Wounds (2019). His newest work With Extreme Prejudice is scheduled for publishing late summer 2021. Lyrically, Emmett has released one non-music poetry CD and four lyrical poetry CDs. Emmett is known nationally and internationally for his poetry having received wonderful reviews. For more biographical information visit http://emmettwheatfall.com (link is external). A flier of the 14th season readings is available here  (link is external)or at the Ledding Library. Thank you to all the volunteers who make this reading possible. For information or questions about…

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Incite: Queer Writers Read—July 2021

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, bi-monthly reading series for Queer writers. Join us in July as we explore the topic of BOTH/AND with Ari Chadwick-Saund, Kosoko Jackson, and Sarah Mirk. This is an online event. Register to attend at https://literary-arts.org/events/. Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, bimonthly reading series for Queer writers. Incite’s hope is to create conversation, connection, and greater understanding both within the Queer community and with other communities. Hosted by Vinnie Kinsella and Jennifer Perrine. The theme for July is Both/And. Register for this event in advance. Kosoko Jackson is a digital media specialist, focusing on digital storytelling, email, social and SMS marketing, and a freelance political journalist. Occasionally, his personal essays and short stories have been featured on Medium,…

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2021 Tin House Summer Workshop Conversation Series: Asali Solomon and Danielle Evans

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

#thsw public conversation series continues with Danielle Evans and Asali Solomon discussing the narrative structure of writing friendship, the relationship between friendship and characterization, and the nuances of writing Black women’s friendships. 2 pm PST with ASL interpretation.

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