LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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January Poetry Practice Space

Online N/A, Portland

Join us monthly on zoom, on the third Thursday of the month for prompts and sharing. Register here, and we’ll send the zoom link on the day of the event. Poetry Practice Space is a monthly gathering for poets and writers. Writing materials, readings and prompts for generative writing will be provided. Come share a space to talk about your writing practice, and current writing projects, bemoan rejections, celebrate acceptances, share writing resources— and write together! Consider Poetry Practice Space the calisthenics for your poetics. Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Free for members

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Peepers Virtual Book Launch with Patrick Keck & Tim Goodyear

Online N/A, Portland

Join us for a virtual book launch celebrating the release of the new FU Press book, Peepers, with cartoonist Patrick Keck joined in conversation by artist and small press publisher Tim Goodyear! Streaming live at Facebook.com/fantagraphics on Thursday 1/21 at 6pm PST Order your copy via our host, Floating World Comics, and receive a free signed and sketched bookplate with your copy! Floating-world-comics.myshopify.com/products/peepers-hc About Peepers: This trippy sci-fi romance needs to be seen to be appreciated for its full psychedelic glory. Peepers needs to wake up, eat food, get drunk, and fly to space, because living out your life on top of someone else's brain may be all it's cracked up to be. Patrick Keck's graphic novel resides in a space vacated by the likes…

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