A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
A night of readings by new authors from Dorothy, a publishing project, Ellipsis Press, FC2, and Sidebrow. Readers include Cristina Rivera Garza, Sabrina Orah Mark, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Evelyn Hampton, Carol Guess and Aimee Parkison, Aurelie Sheehan, Anna Maria Hong, and Joanna Howard. Contact: Joanna Ruocco & Jason Snyder
Ever wanted to witness slam poets play fun, wacky games in front of an entire audience? Well, then come on out for our first ever Slam Olympics!! Watch as three teams of brave slam poets go head-to-head in silly poetry challenges, such as: — Who can eat a chili pepper and keep their cool best while performing a poem? — Will the poet who pulls a piece of paper that reads "say your poem in a Midwestern accent" out of a hat be able to do so through their entire poem with conviction? — What objects will poets be given to write an entire poem on top of and then read to the audience? — Which songs will poets bring for the karaoke cover round???…