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Readings from Small Presses: Fence, Information as Material, No, Dear, and Wendy’s Subway

Ace Hotel 1022 SW Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Readings of newly released poetry and prose by authors from the following small presses: Fence Books (Hudson, NY), Information as material (York, UK), No, Dear (Brooklyn, NY), and Wendy’s Subway (Brooklyn, NY). Publications will be available for purchase. Contact: Francesca Capone

Free

Distressing Deaths in the Land of Literature

Ace Hotel 1022 SW Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Ah, death. It can be both beautiful and terrible, and death certainly makes us keep turning the page. Join author (and mortician!) Elizabeth Fournier and the many departed characters of fiction as we test our bookish cred in a game of Literary Demise for deathy prizes to (not) die for. Death, be not proud, but always be fictitiously entertaining.

Free