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One Page Wednesday: April

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Writers, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh work. Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented Portland writers. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! Doors open at 6:30. Please, no reading from electronic devices. Hosted by Natalie Serber Featured Readers for April: Aaron Gilbreath is the author of the personal essay collection, Everything We Don’t Know, a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award, and This Is: Essays on Jazz. His next book is titled Through the San Joaquin Valley: The Heart of California. Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel, Zazen, which won the…

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Orpheus 2019 Night Three

Fort Vancouver High School 5700 East 18th Street, Vancouver, WA, United States

Featured Writers: Shannon Brazil, Daria Eckhardt Eliuk, Aaron Gilbreath, Sophia Shalmiyev, Kristi Straight

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Fall Five-Minute Reading Marathon

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

Join us for the Fall Five-Minute Reading Marathon! All afternoon, between 1-6pm, a series of fabulous local writers will get up on stage and read for five minutes. Stay for one or two, or all afternoon. 1:30 — Leni Zumas 2pm — Elizabeth Pickard 2:30pm — Aaron Gilbreath 3pm — Harold Johnson 3:15pm — Stevan Allred 3:30pm — Nikki Schulak 3:45pm — Missy Ladygo 4pm — Michael Keefe 4:15pm — Liz Prato 4:30pm — Liz Scott 4:45pm — Kalimah Abioto 5pm — Beth Wood 5:15pm — Laura Lampton Scott 5:30pm — jayy dodd 5:45pm — Alexa Weinstein

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Liz Prato in Conversation with Aaron Gilbreath

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We are thrilled to welcome back Liz Prato, in conversation with Aaron Gilbreath, to discuss her new book Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning. In this revealing and provocative essay collection, Prato reveals a generation deeply affected by terrorism, racial inequality, rape culture, and mental illness, in an era when none of these issues were openly discussed. Part memoir, part journlistic exploration, Kids in America illuminates a generation often written off as cynical, sarcastic slackers, showing that its impact on culture and society is undeniable. Prato herself is a GenXer, growing up in Denver in the '70s and '80s, so the issues she explores here are issues of her generation, and a lot of the book is about coming to terms with things they…

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