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Literary AF Reading

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

Join us February 4th at the Rose City Book Pub for Literary AF. An evening of off-the-wall readings. This is not your usual stuffy reading series. Since this is our first event at Rose City Book Pub we have an amazingly talented line up coming to read including Daniel Dagris, Marla Eizik, Jeb Sherrill, Jesse Kwak, and more. As usual Kelley Baker and Stephanie Bates will be reading. We have new stuff that we know you're dying to hear cause we're dying to read to you. I'll be telling you more about our writers over the next few days so stay tuned. Rose City Book Pub brings together everything we enjoy: books, beer, and wine, of course, but also community events, music, art, and good…

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Lidia Yuknavitch

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

Lidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling novels, The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, and her groundbreaking memoir, The Chronology of Water, have established her as one of our most urgent contemporary voices: a writer with a rare gift for tracing the jagged boundaries between art and trauma, sex and violence, destruction and survival. In Verge (Riverhead), her first collection of short fiction, she turns her eye to life on the margins, in all its beauty and brutality. A book of heroic grace and empathy, Verge is a viscerally powerful and moving survey of our modern heartache life.

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World Read Aloud Day

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

For 11 years, World Read Aloud Day has called attention to the importance of sharing stories and fostering literacy by challenging participants to grab a book, find an audience, and read aloud. This year, First Book Portland is teaming up with one of our favorite businesses to further our efforts to support literacy in our community. Rose City Book Pub will feature a reading from local children’s book author and illustrator Kate Berube for your listening enjoyment! The pub offers a large selection of literature, books by local authors, nonfiction, and children’s books—not to mention great food and beer! Please join us to hear stories, support literacy, and grab a bite or brew. COST: $5 donation (all proceeds will go to First Book Portland)

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WITS Student Reading: Wilson High School

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Culmination of the Wilson High School Writers in the Schools (WITS) residencies. Listen to Wilson students read their original creative writing to peers, parents, and community members.

Free

Let’s Be Weird Together: A Book About Love

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

Being in love makes people happy… and weird (in a good way!). Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel’s Let's Be Weird Together: A Book About Love (Workman) celebrates both love and the delightfully bizarre quirks, habits, and traditions that make each couple unique and crazy about each other. Let’s Be Weird Together is a book about weird couples and the tiny two-person universes they create.

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Slamlandia February Rocking Frog ft. Rob Gray

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on FEBRUARY 6 for our Poetry Open Mic and Slam at the Rocking Frog Cafe! This show is a qualifier for our 2020 Grand Slam. Doors and sign-ups are at 6:00 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 6:30 PM. Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $1-5 suggested donation. We will have an spotlight performance from the delightful Rob Gray! Rob Gray is an artist, musician, and writer in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding member of the Lovely Book Club (lovelybook.club), a DIY arts and publishing collective/yacht club/drinking club/football club.…

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Free – $5

Rick Wilson

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

In his full-throttle playbook for 2020, Running Against the Devil (Crown Forum), Rick Wilson – longtime Republican strategist and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies – warns Democrats not to make the mistakes that could reelect the worst president in history. A 30-year veteran of national political campaigns and one of the most famous ad makers in politics, Wilson brings his experience, insight, knowledge, and signature humor to the 2020 race, just in time to save the Democrats from their worst instincts.

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Spare Room reading: Michele Glazer & Martha Silano

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

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by Michele Glazer & Martha Silano $5 suggested donation; no one turned away Michele Glazer’s recent publications include poems in the Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Entropy, Iowa Review, and The New Yorker. She teaches in the MFA and BFA writing programs at Portland State University. She will read from a new manuscript. Martha Silano’s most recent collections are Gravity Assist and Reckless Lovely, both from Saturnalia Books. She is also co-author of The Daily Poet: Day-by-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice. She teaches at Bellevue College.

Free – $5

Anna Wiener in Conversation With Meaghan O’Connell

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener – stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial – left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley (MCD), is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. Wiener will be joined…

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Powell’s First Word Reading Series – featuring Grief Rites

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

As of January, Powells has launched a new initiative called the FIrst Word Reading Series. The purpose is to "highlight emerging voices from every corner of the Portland literary community. Each month, a different writer, publisher, or literary organization will curate a one-of-a-kind night of readings and performances." We'll follow our typical format. Each reader will have time at the mic to share their grief inspired story. We're so excited for you to experience the dynamic of this group....everything from personal essay to poetry to slam to music. As always, Trigger Warning, because GRIEF. Please remember that Grief Rites does not vett our readers, so the first time you hear their particular piece of work will be our first time, as well. Trigger warnings and…

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