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The Moth: Instincts

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St, Portland, OR, United States

INSTINCTS: Prepare a five-minute tale involving your animal instincts. Tell us about your intuition or sixth sense, a premonition or other intangible instruction from your deep down insides. Spidey sense, bar room brawls, or the hunch that leads you to a great sublet or away from a traffic jam. This venue is 21+. *Tickets for this event are available one week before the show, at 12pm PT / 3pm ET. *Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final. Media Sponsors: OPB and Literary Arts

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Slamlandia December (Friday!!) Guilder Slam ft. Brandon Leake

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

Join us for our DECEMBER Poetry Open Mic and Slam at Guilder! This month we are changing it up and will take place on a FRIDAY! This will be our second qualifying show to make it into our Grand Slam in March 2019! 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. Guilder 2393 NE Fremont St Portland, OR 97213 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 astonishing Brandon Leake! Brandon Leake is an Award Winning Spoken Word Poet, Artistic Educator, and Motivational Speaker from Stockton, Ca.…

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Free – $5

Slamlandia: featuring Brianna Grisby

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

Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam which meets on the second Thursday of each month. This mic provides a space that is creative, fun, and welcoming to 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 the community.

Free

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Doc Luben

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This slam is the second of four qualifiers for our second semi-final to pick our team for next year! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this even but no one is turned away. We will have a feature performance from Doc Luben More about Doc: Doc Luben is the two time Portland Poetry Slam City Champion, and reached finals at the 2013 Individual World Poetry Slam. They have been a featured poet at diverse venues throughout North America, including the Denver ComicCon and Rose City ComicCon, NYC Urbana, California Institute Of The Arts, and the Denver Minor Disturbance poetry slam. Doc Luben can also transform into a steam locomotive. Their writing appears in…

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Free

Slamlandia January Guilder Slam ft. Devin Devine

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

Join us for our JANUARY Poetry Open Mic and Slam at Guilder! This will be our third qualifying show to make it into our Grand Slam in March 2019! 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. Guilder 2393 NE Fremont St Portland, OR 97213 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 fantastic Devin Devine! Devin Devine is an internationally touring road rat. A writer, comedian, sex worker, and performer from Spokane, Washington, Devin currently lives out of her car with her dog Maya. She is…

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Free – $5

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Devin Devine

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This slam is the fourth of four qualifiers for our second semi-final to pick our team for next year! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this even but no one is turned away. We will have a feature performance from Devin Devine More about Devin: Devin Devine is an internationally touring road rat. A writer, comedian, sex worker, and performer from Spokane, Washington, Devin currently lives out of her car with her dog Maya. She is one of the former organizers for Spokane Poetry Slam and a member of Spokane's 2015, 2017, and 2018 National Poetry Slam teams. She laughs and writes her way through issues of mental health, sexuality, addiction, and love.…

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Free – $5

The Moth: StorySLAM: Intentions

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St, Portland, OR, United States

INTENTIONS: Prepare a five-minute story about best-laid plans. To do lists, apologies, New Years resolutions. Making something happen through sheer will. What I meant was.... This venue is 21+. *Tickets for this event are available one week before the show, at 12pm PT / 3pm ET. *Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final. *It has been four years since we last raised SLAM ticket prices; we are doing so for 2019 in order to keep up with rising production costs. Media Sponsors: OPB and Literary Arts

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Slamlandia

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

Slamlandia is at Literary Arts this Thursday, January 10th! We will have a special feature from the phenomenal Laura Houlberg. Laura Houlberg ( @lo__lands ) is a Portland writer & filmmaker who sharpened their teeth in Los Angeles. She has competed twice at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational and has won the Portland Poetry Slam three times. Their poetry has appeared in Michelle Tea’s Radar Productions: GLOW Queer Poetry Feature, Big Big Wednesday, SUSAN the Journal, and archived on Oregon Poetic Voices. Her films have premiered on Ones to Watch, Northwest Filmmakers' Festival, and the Reel Music Festival. She is usually dancing in front of the PhotoBooth app like it’s 2008. View their work here: laurahoulberg.party Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam…

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Free

Slamlandia House Show – ft. Angel Kofsky

Pointy House 2930 SE Clay St, Portland, OR, United States

It's time for another Slamlandia house show - this time featuring the lovely Angel Kofsky! This show will be held at Pointy House (2930 SE Clay Street) on Friday, January 11th. Door opens & signups at 6:00pm, show starts at 6:30pm. Some snacks and drinks will be provided (on a donation basis) but feel free to bring your own! ***There will be a $5 required entry fee at the door*** This house show will have an open mic that you can sign up to read in, as well as short spotlight features from local poets Kate Leddy and Stephen Meads, and a featured slot from Angel Kofsky. Stereotypically in love with the ocean and the stars, 2018 Java Monkey Slam Champion Angel Kofsky is a…

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Semi Final #2 and Open Mic feat. Angel Kofsky

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our second semi final and open mic!! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this even but no one is turned away. We will have a feature performance from Angel Kofsky More about Angel: Stereotypically in love with the ocean and the stars, 2018 Java Monkey Slam Champion Angel Kofsky is a bi-disaster gender mosaic mess who loves food, crying, butterflies, and bees. Their hobbies include cooking, crying, butterflies, and bees. Angel has been known to describe themselves as a bittersweet ice cream made of tears, butterflies, and bees. Through their writing Kofsky strives to capture the human condition through a narrative of reclaiming joy, surviving illness, and loving rebelliously especially as those things pertain to food, crying, and various insects…

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Free – $5
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