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First Friday Poetry with John SIbley Williams and Emmett Wheatfall

Birdhouse Books 1001 Main Street, Vancouver, WA, United States

Join us for the last First Friday of the Summer season! This month at Birdhouse Books we'll be hosting John Sibley Williams, Emmett Wheatfall, and Kelli Russell Agodon in a truly incredible lineup. Show starts at 7pm! John Sibley Williams is the author of nine poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). His book Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming in translated form by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. A twenty-seven-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry,…

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Wallace Shawn’s “The Fever”

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

A play by Wallace Shawn, starring Paul Susi, directed by Patrick Walsh. Running Aug 12 - Sep 19th at the Lloyd Center For more information, please contact nwclassicaltheatre@gmail.com See also http://www.nwctc.org

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Satya Doyle Byock

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

Portland author Satya Doyle Byock will read from Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, July 2022). Satya is a psychotherapist, the founder and director of The Salome Institute, and a former Delve guide at Literary Arts who has been a part of the PDX literary scene for 15 years. Her first book, which Publisher’s Weekly called a “perceptive debut” seeks to fill a longstanding gap in soulful psychology books available for people in the first half of adulthood. Through clinical storytelling from her practice as well as a look into history and literature, Quarterlife offers people between the ages of 16-36 insight on how “to find and create one’s own life and purpose in a complex and deeply fraught world.” New York Times…

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Ghost Print *Youth* Studio Time

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

👻 The IPRC will be open Sunday 9/4 for special Ghost Print Zine studio time! 👻 Kids and teens are welcome to stop by between 2-5pm to hang out and make art to go into the next issue of the zine. 🎨 Feel free to bring what you like to create with! Basic art supplies and collage materials provided. Please share with young artists you know! *Masks required. Proof of vaxx for those eligible will be checked at the door. RSVP Here (Appointment encouraged but not required)

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Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later: A Memoir in Mountain Goats Songs

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Richard O'Brien puts together new writing and photography from a month exploring John Darnielle's Portland. Also featuring: Try My Tiny Song: Mountain Goats Open Mic. Know a tMG cover or two? Come on in and share them with other fans! Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later: A Memoir in Mountain Goats Songs Want to cover a @mountaingoatsmusic song and hear about my month exploring John Darnielle's Portland? Come down to @turnturnturnpdx at 7pm on September 5th to sing one for the old times, and stay for new writing, photography and choice cuts from the Mountain Goats live archive. All part of the first book about this beloved cult band, an experimental music memoir, which I'm currently writing for @unbounders.

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Tech Support Group

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tech Support Group Register here Mondays, 7-8:30pm PST via Zoom August 29th – Sept. 19th $30 – $75 sliding scale 3 no-cost spots available (BIPOC & 2S Prioritized) In this four-part workshop meets peer support group, we will gather to cultivate community and creative consciousness around the complex presence that smartphones have in our lives. Each meeting will include space for sharing and exploring creative prompts aimed at inviting curiosity, embodiment, experimentation and play into our interactions with our phones. The monthlong group will conclude with a collaborative Tech Support zine, which may include drawings, writings, poems, prompts, experiments, photos, etc that are reflective of experiences from the course. Participants can expect weekly email offerings with questions, prompts and themes to support their processes. Instructor description…

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Gary Shteyngart in Conversation With Carolyn Kellogg

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends, and friends-of-friends, gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months new friendships and romances take hold, while old betrayals emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters include: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a young flame-thrower of an essayist, originally from the Carolinas; and a movie star, The Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. In his latest novel, Gary Shteyngart documents through fiction the emotional toll…

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Kristin Ohlson in Conversation With Lee van der Voo

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

What if Nature is more cooperative, and less competitive, than we think? In the follow-up to her previous book, The Soil Will Save Us, Kristin Ohlson’s Sweet in Tooth and Claw (Patagonia) extends the concept of cooperation in nature to the life-affirming connections among microbes, plants, fungi, insects, birds, and animals — including humans — in ecosystems around the globe. For centuries, people have debated whether nature is mostly competitive — as Darwin theorized and the poet Tennyson described as “red in tooth and claw” — or innately cooperative, as many ancient and indigenous peoples believed. In the last 100 or so years, a growing gang of scientists have studied the mutually beneficial interactions that are believed to benefit every species on earth. Sweet in…

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Aiden Thomas in Conversation With Alex Abraham

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

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials (Feiwel & Friends), where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in an electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, author of Cemetery Boys. As each new decade begins, the Sun's power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the chaotic Obsidian gods at bay. Sol selects ten of the most worthy semidioses to compete in the Sunbearer Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all — they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body melted down to refuel the Sun Stones, protecting the world for another ten years. Teo, a…

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