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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Returns to In-Person Readings with Featured Poet Jeffrey Morgan

Art At The Cave 108 E Evergreen Blvd, Vancouver, WA, United States

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Jeffrey Morgan Hosted by Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige 7 pm Thursday, September 9 Art at the Cave 108 E Evergreen Blvd Vancouver, WA 98660 https://artatthecave.com/ $5 Suggested donation Masks must be worn at all times to participate in this event. Open Mic readers may remove their masks while reading. The microphone will be sprayed after each reader. Statement on Healthy Spaces from the gallery: We want to provide a healthy space to enjoy art. We are practicing safety precautions such as regular cleaning, social distancing and mask wearing. We kindly request that you wear a mask and practice social distancing while visiting the gallery. If needed, we will limit the number of people in the gallery. Masks and…

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Free – $5

Writing with our Ancestors, with Chelsea Hicks

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A four-week generative online writing lab. WHEN: Begins Friday, September 10th, 2021. This class is hosted on our rich interactive online platform, WetInk. The class is broken into four weeks, and within those weeks you go at your own pace. In addition, Chelsea will host five weekly Zoom session on Fridays from 4-5pm PST. The final Zoom session will be a group reading/celebration. (Zoom dates: 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8) ACCESS: While able to be purchased directly from this site at our standard rate of $350, this offering is available at a sliding scale rate to anyone who inquires. Please reach out to Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com. Payment plans are also available. In Chiapas and Oaxaca, writers center Indigenous literature with translation across languages,…

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$350

Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For people who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC). 2nd & 4th Friday of every month from 4 to 5:30 pm (Pacific Time), Free. (No workshops 11/26 & 12/25.) Workshops are held via Zoom. Pre-registration is required. Registration opens the 1st of the month every month. Pre-register for our 2nd Friday workshop here. Pre-register for our 4th Friday workshop here. Click here for more workshop details.

Free

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. This event is postponed one week due to the Labor Day weekend. Our Featured Readers are our community leaders, names TBA. The Open Mic will follow their reading. Email Greg Chaimov at gchaimov@gmail.com 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 after the event.

Free

Attic Institute: FALL Online: The Music of Language for Prose Writers w Joanna Rose

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Your sentences have music that can evoke emotion in ways that support and inform your story or essay. Meter, rhythm, word length, sentence length, consonants and vowels, juxtaposition -  they’re not just for poets!  Grammar has its own music as well. In this class we’ll explore the emotional possibilities of sound & meaning using published texts as well as the work of participants, who will be asked to submit 2 pages per week.. Come prepared to be surprised at what your writing can do. | Maximum: 10 writers Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions,…

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$215 – $242

Attic Institute: FALL Online: Prose Poetry or Creative Nonfiction? A Generative Writing Workshop w Ruben Quesada

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A first-person perspective. A description. A moment. A feeling. A monologue. Maximum | 10 writers "Thank you Ruben Quesada for an incredible class. It was full of fascinating information and the prompts Ruben gave us inspired my generative work (and from the other poets, you could tell it was the same for them)! Ruben also cultivated a space of openness and sharing that was truly remarkable for such a short class. He is a fantastic addition to the Attic, and I sincerely hope to take classes with him in the future. I most definitely would be interested to continue learning from and writing with Ruben." ~ Emma Nelson, student Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All…

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$65 – $83

The Work Poetry workshop: Saturday Afternoon Edition

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us from 11:30 am – 2:00 pm on the second Saturday of every month for The Work. Upcoming Saturday afternoon workshops will take place on October 9, November 13, and December 11. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion, and sparks the shifts in consciousness which can lead to healing, personal growth, and an interest in fighting for progressive social change. We will read and discuss poetry, write several new poems, and give each writer feedback on at least one of the drafts composed during the workshop. The cost for the workshop is a suggested donation of $20 to Christopher Luna’s PayPal account: christopherjluna@gmail.com “Suggested” means that we would like…

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Free – $20

How to Create the Perfect Crime for Young Readers

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

PB? MG? YA? Early readers? Are you speaking a different language? Yes, in a way, this is its own language. Because writing for children and teens has its own unique guidelines, challenges, and rewards. Dori Hillestad Butler and Kelly Garrett will break down the different categories of mysteries written for young (and young at heart) readers. They’ll discuss strategies for crafting mysteries for all different age groups, and you’ll walk away with useful tips and an appreciation for how writing something that feels so simple is surprisingly complex. Dori Hillestad Butler is the author of more than 55 books for young readers including the Edgar award winning Buddy Files series, the two-time Geisel Honor award winning King & Kayla series, the Haunted Library series, the…

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Free – $15

The Poetry Box LIVE f. Elizabeth McBride, Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Marcia B. Loughran

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Poetry Box LIVE – September Edition Time: Sept 11, 2021 at 4pm (Pacific) / 7pm (Eastern) The Poetry Box LIVE is a monthly Zoom poetry reading series on the 2nd Saturday of each month and hosted by Portland poet and publisher, Shawn Aveningo-Sanders. September Featured Poets: • Elizabeth S.E. McBride (Michigan) – author of MOST BEAUTIFUL • Susan Coultrap-McQuin (Minnesota) – author of WHAT WE BRING HOME • Marcia B. Loughran (New York) – author of SONGS FROM THE BACK-IN-THE-BACK --------- HOW TO ACCESS THE ZOOM READING --------- Join Zoom Meeting on Sept 11 No registration required, simply click on link about 5 minutes before the show: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87874368401?pwd=TmUxK3lYSW02cUIvUDQ1RHg4dm05QT09 Meeting ID: 878 7436 8401 Passcode: 837970 ------- ABOUT THE FEATURED POETS ------------- Elizabeth S.E. McBride’s…

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Free

I Am My Story Live

Alex L. Parks Performing Arts Center Jesuit High School 9000 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

September 11 is an historic day, and as that date approaches, we at The Immigrant Story invite you to join us at an historic event. To commemorate this important occasion, we will present powerful voices of survival and soothing musical accompaniment in a live storytelling event called “I Am My Story: Voices of Hope.” With storytellers from Burundi, Rwanda, Cambodia and Syria, the program focuses on remarkable, first-person tales of courage and fortitude. These brave sagas and resilience in the face of unimaginable atrocities of war and genocide offer hope and inspiration at a time when those qualities are sometimes in short supply. “I Am My Story Live” will also feature performances from world-class musicians. The event, produced in collaboration with the City of Beaverton,…

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Free
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