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Marisa McClellan in Conversation With Martha Holmberg

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

Marisa McClellan, author of Food in Jars, wants everyone to know that a pantry full of homemade jams, jellies, salsas, and pickles can do a whole lot more than accompany toast. They can add bold bursts of flavor to your home cooking! In her fourth book, The Food in Jars Kitchen (Running Press), she provides 140 recipes for incorporating preserves into everyday dishes. McClellan will be joined in conversation by Martha Holmberg, author of Modern Sauces and coauthor of Six Seasons.

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Peach Blossom Poetry Series: Stella Jeng Guillory

Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett St, Portland, OR, United States

Chinese gardens in China and Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland are filled with poetic inscriptions: as text, calligraphy, engravings and plaques. Inspired by the culture of literature in Chinese gardens, prolific poets share their work with garden visitors every Saturday in April at 3 p.m. Included with Lan Su membership or admission; no registration is required. April 6 A. Molotkov April 13 Clemens Starck April 20 Stella Jeng Guillory April 27 Joni Renee Whitworth About the Presenters: Born in Russia, A. Molotkov moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, and Synonyms for Silence (Acre Books/Cincinnati Review, 2019). Published by Kenyon, Iowa, Antioch, Massachusetts, Atlanta, Bennington and…

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.:LOOP:. Reading and Performance by Corporeal Writing Mammals

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

Please come witness Corporeal Writing participants read along with me and Lidia Yuknavitch at Corporeal Center on Sat, 4/20 from 5-8pm. You can find us at 510 SW 3rd Ave Suite 101, in the old Postal building just across the Morison bridge and in the same bldg as Killler Burger. We don’t call our comrades students because that top down jam just isn’t how we roll. Just so you know, no one will be turned away for inability to pay at the door, but we are asking you to consider $5 or so, so we can keep offering a space for anyone to write for free on Tues-Fri, 12-6pm. Love .:LOOP:. Domi Our phenomenal readers/performers are: Dot Hearn Pamela K. Santos Annie Gudger Jewels Bethann…

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Free – $5

Dovesong Labs Salon Series 001

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

The first of Dovesong Labs Salon Series ft. Luther Hughes (Seattle), Mase Johnson, Ahsante Sankofa Foree, & Sea Mason (PDX). This is one part: informal panel, 2 parts: art share & all parts necessary! Luther Hughes is a Seattle native and author of Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). He is the Founding Editor of The Shade Journal, Executive Editor for the The Offing, and is 1/3 of The Poet Salon podcast. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Seattle Times, New England Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and others. Luther received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. You can follow him on Twitter @lutherxhughes. He thinks you are beautiful. -- Sea Mason is a queer writer, cook, plant lover, astrology…

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An Evening of Poetry with Rob Schlegel and Katie Peterson

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

Join us Saturday, April 20 at 7 pm to hear Rob Schlegel and Katie Peterson read from their new collections of poetry. Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing 2009), selected by James Longenbach for the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and January Machine (Four Way Books 2014), selected by Stephanie Burt for the Grub Street National Book Prize. His third collection is In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (University of Iowa Press 2019), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. With the poets Daniel Poppick and Rawaan Alkhatib, he co-edits The Catenary Press. Most recently, he has taught at Whitman College, and in the MFA Program at Portland State University. With calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among…

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The Trial of Lizzie Borden

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

Cara Robertson’s The Trial of Lizzie Borden (Simon & Schuster) tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter, Lizzie, turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. The Trial of Lizzie Borden offers a window into America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its most deeply held convictions and its most troubling social anxieties.

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Tell Me A Story # 4

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Tell Me a Story is a free, semi-regular reading series making it's debut at Rose City Book Pub! Our lineup features readings from Shloimy Notik, Caryn Brooks, Kristen Diederich, Natalie Jane Edson, and Rebecca Smolen, and is hosted by Jessica Wadleigh.

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The Coffeehouse Resistance: Book Reading/Q&A with Sarina Prabasi

Guilder Cafe 2393 NE Fremont St., Portland, OR, United States

"Coffee-shop owners and workers know that it’s about so much more than the coffee. What keeps people coming back are the relationships, the human connections." Fresh Cup Magazine, in partnership with Guilder, is pleased to welcome Buunni Coffee co-founder and author Sarina Prabasi to Portland in celebration of her new book, The Coffeehouse Resistance: Brewing Hope in Desperate Times. Part coming-to-America story, part lyrical memoir, and yet another part activist’s call to action, The Coffeehouse Resistance is timely, funny, and poignant. Writing as a mother, immigrant, new American, coffeehouse owner, and international nonprofit leader, Prabasi’s story weaves between Nepal, Ethiopia, and the United States. When Prabasi and her husband move from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to New York City with their young daughter in 2011, they…

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Ian Doescher

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

From Ian Doescher, author of the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series, comes two new books recreating famous films with authentic Shakespearean rhyme, meter, and stage directions: William Shakespeare’s Get Thee Back to the Future! (Quirk) and William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls (Quirk).

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Liz Scott

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

Liz Scott's memoir, This Never Happened (University of Hell), goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. In her relentless quest to uncover the truth, she mines photographs and letters, leaving no one, including herself, unexamined. This is a spare work, alternately heartbreaking and darkly comic. In the end, it’s about the struggle to clear away pain to make room for compassion, and the challenge of making peace with questions that will never be answered.

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