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Rickie Lee Jones

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Last Chance Texaco (Grove Press) is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, the “Duchess of Coolsville” (Time) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits, and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs…

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Free

Delve Readers Seminar: James Baldwin

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Explore James Baldwin’s first two novels – Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni’s Room – and some of his early essays in order to deepen your understanding of the intersection of identity, morality, and power. What do these early works teach about Baldwin’s response to his own question: what does it mean to be an honest person and a good writer? September 1 - October 6, 2021 Wednesdays, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (six sessions) online via Zoom Guide: Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola is the author of The Fire Is Upon Us,The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass and the editor of The Essential Douglass and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman…

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$240

Daylight Book Club

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 11:00 AM the Ledding Library Daylight Book Club will meet via Zoom to discuss Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler. For more information contact Reference Librarian Laura Francillon at francillonl@milwaukieoreogn.gov (link sends e-mail).

Free

Poetry Is A Prompt: Community Healing Project

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

IPRC is honored to be selected by Creative Laureate Emeritus Subashini Ganesan and the City of Portland to create a healing through art collective project. Poetry Is A Prompt is a collaborative poetry project that we invite you to participate in. It’s an opportunity to reflect on grief and healing from the past year of heightened racist violence and the evolving COVID pandemic, as well as the many personal losses each of us experience. Intisar Abioto (@intisarabioto), Stephanie Adams-Santos (@tarot_obscuro), jayy dodd (@jxzz_hndz), Catie Hannigan (@glinnt), and Coleman Stevenson (@darkexact) have created first lines of poetry to inspire your writing. Crystal Thomas (@darkrystalight) has created a sculptural structure to hold your lines of poetry written on paper chain garlands. Come visit the IPRC’s new Martha…

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Free

Coffee Talk #26

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Featuring: Ella Decastro Baron, Janeen Armstrong, Lisa Fierer, Mark Sanford Gross, Sue Biggs Come hear 5 wonderful writers read their heart words around grief. The zoom call will last about an hour. Come listen. Join Zoom Meeting

Free

Submission Deadline: Tin House: Nonfiction (including Memoirs and Graphic nonfiction)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Three times per year, Tin House offers a two-day submission period for writers to submit their work. Eligible writers must not currently have an agent, and must not have previously published a book (chapbooks okay). Per our schedule below, we accept works of fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry, both originally in English and in translation (please only submit translation projects which the translator has already been granted formal permission to translate), and ask that you do not send us a project unless you have a completed draft. In particular, we are looking to engage with work by writers from historically underrepresented communities, including—but not limited to—those who are Black, Indigenous, POC, disabled, neurodivergent, trans and LGBTQIA+, debuting after 40, and without an MFA. SUBMIT: From…

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Free

The Path of Perseverance: Writing No Matter What

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The writing journey, exhilarating and wondrous as it is, can be punctuated with delays and disappointments. Sometimes the demands of daily life or an unexpected crisis can send us into a tailspin. How do we keep writing through chaos or a stressful live event? For many of us, the last year threw various hurdles in the way of our ability to write consistently. Yet, we pressed on. Still, some of us have yet to regain our footing, and need encouragement to keep going. If you are tired of not writing, and want to cultivate the “stick-to-it-ness” necessary for meeting your goals–no matter the challenges–this workshop is for you. Gleaning inspiration and guidance from writers like Annie Dillard, Julia Cameron, and Rumi, along with mining the…

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$190

Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Welcome to our Risograph Basics course: a printing, collage, experimentation, and mark making extravaganza! Get to know Outlet and our RISO sisters (Barbara, Janet, Corita, and Tina) and learn the basics of this fun and unique print method with Kate Bingaman-Burt! This workshop is a great place to start if you’re new to riso, or if you’d like a refresher! We’ll take a deep dive into risograph history, an overview of how these machines work, the stencil-duplicator process, and the quirks and fun (sometimes unpredictable) outcomes of riso printing. The main focus of this class is EXPERIMENTATION. We’ll share print and zine inspiration, favorite mark making tools and how to use them for riso, and we’ll walk through a print demo on two of our…

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$85 – $100

True North Studios: Saturday Open Hours

True North Studios 455 NE 71st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

You're invited to come use our studio – no membership required! Get access to our large rolling work tables, drawing supplies, large light table, newsprint, cutting mats, paper cutter and more, during our Saturday Open Hours! Drop by any time between 12-4, just sign up below. This Saturday, September 4th, Sarah Lofthouse will be facilitating a New Moon Collage Circle during Open Studio hours from 12pm to 2pm. We will be creating collages as a form of intention setting for the Virgo New Moon happening on 9/6/21. This new moon is all about the practical, material realm and how we use our daily routines and rituals. Drop by anytime during this time to learn about the new moon and create an intention collage. Bring your…

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$5 – $25
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