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Fall Used Book Sale

Lloyd Center DoubleTree Hotel Exhibit Hall 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, OR, United States

Members Only Pre-Sale Friday, October 4, 6pm-9pm We’ll have a roster of current members at the sale door and memberships will be available for purchase/renewal at the sale. General Sale Saturday, Oct 5, 9am-9pm  - Literary Trivia and Bar 6pm-9pm Sunday, Oct 6, 11am-5pm - 50% off with Educator ID Monday, Oct 7, 9am-3pm - $25/box or 50% EVERYTHING Collector's Corner Friday and Saturday only Location Lloyd Center DoubleTree Hotel Exhibit Hall 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, Oregon 97232 Getting There Easy TriMet and MAX access - Lloyd Center stop serviced by Red, Blue, and Green MAX lines. Parking available on street and in the on-site parking garage. $3 parking vouchers available. The Selection Thousands of donated books and materials - well sorted • Gently…

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24 Hour Comic Book Day @ I Like Comics

I Like Comics 1715 Broadway St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Bring your own supplies and celebrate 24 hour comic book day with us: a challenge event where we will be completing 24 comic pages in 24 hours! It'll be a potluck, so bring some food or snacks to share! We'll have blow up beds for power naps, and rotating sales on things in the store throughout the event. We have over 50 seats available, so bring your friends!

Free

Floyd Skloot in Conversation With David Biespiel

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

Floyd Skloot’s Far West (LSU) intertwines the past and present, as time alternates between racing and standing still. Crafting poems that confront memory lapses and painful recollections, Skloot traces his moments of purest perception and expression. Skloot will be joined in conversation by David Biespiel, author of The Education of a Young Poet and Republic Café.

Free

Multi-Author Literary Sci-Fi Event

Vintage Books 6613 E Mill Plain Blvd, Vancouver, WA, United States

Vintage Books invites you to join us for a literary sci-fi event October 6th at 2 pm. Authors Fonda Lee, Curtis Chen and Mike Chen will lead us in an hour of discussion, answering questions and signing their books! Fonda Lee is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels for adults and teens. Her fantasy trilogy, the Green Bone Saga, begins with Jade City, which won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards. The sequel Jade War is now available. Her young adult science fiction novels have garnered accolades including being named Junior Library Guild Selections and Andre Norton Award finalists. Fonda is a recovering corporate strategist, black belt martial artist, and action…

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Maxine Scates and Shaindel Beers – reading and Q&A

The Tiny Theater PDX 3306 SE 65th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The Voice of Empathy is back for season 2 at thetinytheaterPDX, 3306 SE 65th Ave, Portland, OR. The series showcases poets whose work investigates the human capacity for compassion and generosity and invites the reader/listener to care deeply for others and the world. This description is for the poets’ reference only and does not presume to impose any constraints on the work selected for presentation. There is room for 37-39 poetry lovers. Please come a few minutes in advance to reserve your seats. Maxine Scates is the author of three collections of poetry, Undone (New Issues), Black Loam (Cherry Grove) and Toluca Street (University of Pittsburgh) . She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (Copper Canyon).…

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Nelle Jones

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 a qualifying slam for the Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals. There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Nelle Jones! We will be at our venue, Tiny's Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is welcome. We do not censor our mic except for instances of hate-speech. Please also note that we start a little earlier then at previous venues. Accessibility info: Tiny's is on the 6 bus line, which is a frequent service line. It is a quarter mile from the the streetcar line and about a half mile away from the max.…

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Fatima Bhutto

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

A vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to American mass-produced popular culture. New Kings of the World (Columbia Global Reports) is a book about the new arbiters of mass culture – India’s Bollywood films, Turkey's soap operas, or dizi, and South Korea's pop music. Fatima Bhutto's new book is an important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyes.

Free

Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club

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

Join us on for a drop-in Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club, all experience-levels welcome. Monday afternoons from 3—5 for eight weeks, September 30th through November 18th. Following the lineage of Portland’s own Lloyd Reynolds and Jaki Svaren, learn about posture, motion and breathing in alignment with calligraphic strokes. Through learning Italic and using it as a daily hand, we can bring beauty, attention, and rhythmic flow into our everyday script. $5—10 sliding scale materials fee.

$5 – $10

A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams, Laura Winter

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

Free Range Poetry presents A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams, Laura Winter Monday, October 7, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland An open mic will precede featured poets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. A. Molotkov moved to the US from Russia in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things (2016), Application of Shadows (Main Street Rag, September 2018) and Synonyms for Silence (Acre Books/Cincinnati Review, 2019). He has been published by The Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Antioch Review, Massachusetts Review, Atlanta Review, Bennington Review, Tampa Review, Pif, Volt, 2 River View and elsewhere. Molotkov is…

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Grief Rites Readers Series ~ October 7

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

A monthly storytelling showcase about grief, loss and love. Gather in community with others who share grief in all forms and manifestations. Come ready to cry, laugh, listen and hold space for yourself and others. *Trigger warning, because Grief. Content not edited for language or topic. Mature audience. Venue is accessible. ***This month's event will include an open mic, in addition to our curated readers. If you have words to share about your grief, we welcome you. Open mic’ers will have 4 minutes.*** Open mic signups begin at 6:30pm. Readings start at 7pm. If you have any questions about the open mic please message here on FB, or email us at info@griefritesfoundation.org Curated Storytellers... Nicole Ausmus Jess Byers Amy Findling Wendy Noonan Krista Price Carolyn…

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