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Correspondences: A Collaboration

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

What corresponds? What doesn't, but should? What happens when correspondence turns to collaboration, and what’s bred from its absence? Come out to hear these writers respond to these questions through their collaborations and individual poems. Hosts: The Bay Area Correspondence School and Lone Glen About the Authors: Mary-Kim Arnold is the author of Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press, 2018) and the chapbook Between Night & Night (Artifact Press, 2018). Her poetry collection, The Fish & The Dove is forthcoming (Noemi Press, 2020). She teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University. MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis, and Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press.) Chavez was a recipient of a 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and in the same year,…

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Dancing Girl Press: An Offsite AWP Reading

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

Dancing Girl Press is an indie press and design studio based in Chicago. Since 2004, the DGP Chapbook Series has been devoted to publishing innovative writing by women authors in handmade editions, as well as exploring the intersection of writing and the visual/book arts. Please come to hear authors of recent chapbooks share their work: Steffi Drewes is author of the poetry collection Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press, 2016) and four chapbooks, most recently New Animal (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in various journals and event series, including the 2018 Way Bay Poetry Assembly and postcard project at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She is also the recipient of writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio…

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