LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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SO Homo/no FOMO: an offsite AWP reading

Dismantle, Change, Build Center 14 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Please join your hosts, TC Tolbert and Kristen E. Nelson for this reading full of queer, trans, and accomplice writers. We will be collecting donations at the door to support the DCBC, no one turned away for lack of funds! Readers include: Andrea Abi-Karam manuel arturo abreu Kay Ulanday Barrett Cara Benson Piper Daniels Hannah Ensor Raquel Gutiérrez Kristen E. Nelson Frankie Rollins Aisha Sabatini Sloan TC Tolbert Addie Tsai

Free

Kelsey Street AWP Reading

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

JOIN KELSEY STREET, CHAX, EOAGH, TINFISH, BLACK RADISH AND POG in Portland at Passages Books. Featured Kelsey Street readers are Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam, Anna Morrison, Mg Roberts and Hazel White The full lineup for the reading is: 6:00–7:15 pm Charles Alexander, Robert Mittenthal, David Abel, Kit Robinson, Sarah Rosenthal, Trace Peterson, Max Wolf Valerio, Susan M. Schultz, Tim Dyke, Jordan Scott, Steven Salmoni, Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam 7:45–9:00 pm Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand, MG Roberts, Samuel Ace, James Maughn, Barbara Tomash, Jesse Nissim, Anastacia Renee, Jaimie Gusman, Monica Ortega Ortiz, Anna Morrison, Hazel White, Sarah Riggs

Free

Essay; Wonder; Ugly Duckling; Nightboat; Les Figues

1122 Gallery 1122 SE 88th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us at 1122 Gallery for a reading and celebration of five presses that publish innovative, boundary-pushing, necessary work. Two readers will represent each press. Readers include Essay Press: Mary-Kim Arnold and Rebecca Brown, Wonder Press: Shiv Kotecha and Bridget Talone, Nightboat Books: Brian Teare and Rosamond S. King, Ugly Duckling Presse: Kristin Dykstra and Ed Steck, and Les Figues Press: Alexis Almeida and Andrea Abi-Karam. Dough by Los Angeles artist Stacy Elaine Dacheux will adorn the walls. Snacks and beverages will be on hand. Sure to be a great and inspiring evening! Contact: Jesse Morse Please join us at 1122 Gallery for a reading and celebration of five presses that publish innovative, boundary-pushing, necessary work. Two readers will represent each press. Essay Press:…

Free