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Platypus Press Presents: On Being & Place

Tea Chai Té - North West 734 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Where is home? Where do we belong? All the questions we strive to answer for ourselves. Join four Platypus Press authors—each with their own unique narratives—as they read work that confronts, questions and seeks an understanding of heritage, memories, and our own bodies, an attempt to knit together a portrait of who we are and where we’re from. Please note: this venue (on NW 23rd) is on the second floor and unfortunately not accessible to all at this time. — Mary Kovaleski Byrnes is the author of So Long the Sky (Platypus Press, 2018). She teaches writing and literature at Emerson College, and is the co-founder of the emersonWRITES program. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Salamander, the Boston Globe, Best of the Net, PANK,…

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Slamlandia July Picnic PDX Poetry Open Mic

Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on JULY 25TH for our **FOURTH** Thursday Poetry Open Mic! Normally a third Thursday show, we are pushing our Picnic PDX open mic back one week, since The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam is taking place the previous week - don't want to overwhelm everyone! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic! Show begins at 7:00 PM Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. $5 suggested donation at door. This show will not have a poetry slam or a featured poet. We ask for just poetry on this mic, no music or stand up comedy. ★…

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Free – $5

Slamlandia August Picnic PDX Poetry Open Mic ft. Rain City Team

Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on AUGUST 15TH for our third Thursday Poetry Open Mic! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic! Show begins at 7:00 PM Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. $5 suggested donation at door. This show will not have a poetry slam. We ask for just poetry on this mic, no music or stand up comedy. This show will have a feature from the wonderfully amazing 2019 Rain City Slam Team! ★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★ The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is…

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Slamlandia September Picnic PDX Poetry Open Mic

Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on SEPTEMBER 19TH for our third Thursday Poetry Open Mic! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic! Show begins at 7:00 PM Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. $5 suggested donation at door. This show will not have a poetry slam or a featured poet. We ask for just poetry on this mic, no music or stand up comedy. ★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★ The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is a great way to share your wonderful poetry! You can share…

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Kirtan and Reading from Newly Released Book, Dharma, the Way to Awakening and Social Change

New Renaissance Books 1338 NW 23rd Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for an insightful book talk/reading and discussion on Dharma followed by devotional music and chanting. What is the Dharma? How does understanding your own dharma help you to feel more at peace and aligned with your purpose? How does the following of dharma support social change and help create a more peaceful world? These are just a few of the questions that will be answered at Maetreyii Ma's book launch for her newest book, Dharma the Way to Awakening and Social Change. Join Maetreyii Ma for an insightful, thought-provoking discussion followed by devotional music and kirtan.

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Slamlandia October Picnic PDX Poetry Open Mic ft. Kelsey Taylor

Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on OCTOBER 17TH for our third Thursday Poetry Open Mic! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic! Show begins at 7:00 PM Picnic PDX 1305 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. $5 suggested donation at door. This show will not have a poetry slam. We ask for just poetry on this mic, no music or stand up comedy. This show will have a feature from Kelsey Taylor! Born and raised in the PNW, Kelsey Taylor is a former figure skater with a fear of falling, who has traded in her figure skates for poetry slams and leotards…

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Jennifer Dorner, Ana Michalowsky, Matt Spohn

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

Free Range Poetry presents Jennifer Dorner, Ana Michalowsky, Matthew Spohn Monday 2, 2020 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland 6:00 - 7:30 pm Please arrive early, capacity of room approximately 45 people An open mic will precede featured poets. Sign up for open mic begins at 5:30 pm Open mic readers limited to two pages of material Jennifer Dorner’s poetry has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Cloudbank, Sugar House Review, Timberline Review, The Inflectionist Review, Verseweavers and VoiceCatcher. Dorner was a finalist in the 2016 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2018 Hedgebrook Writers in Residence Program. In 2019, she received 1st Place in the Oregon Poetry Association’s spring contest in both the Poet’s Choice and Members Only…

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The Quaking of America Tour w/ Resmaa Menakem

Alberta House 5131 NE 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us to celebrate the new book The Quaking of America with NYT bestselling Author Resmaa Menakem We are delighted to welcome Resmaa Menakem to the Rose City and be part of his book tour and to celebrate his new book with him in person. June 29th 2022 6pm:  Alberta House 5131 NE 23rd Ave Doors open at 5pm "Resmaa Menakem is one of our country's most gifted racial healers. His brilliant new book could not be more timely—a volume our country, our bodies, and our humanity desperately need."—Michael Eric Dyson, author of Entertaining Race and Long Time Coming In The Quaking of America, therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem takes readers through somatic processes addressing the growing threat of white-supremacist political violence. Through the coordinated…

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