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Mother Foucault’s 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, United States

Join us at the 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival at Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, Washington! October 25-27, join publishers, authors, and plain old book lovers for potlucks in the pavilion, readings, workshops, walks by the sea, and maybe even some karaoke at the Sou’wester Lodge and Trailer Park in Seaview, Washington. Featuring: Alejandro de Acosta, John Beer, Gerald Costanzo, Karolinn Fiscaletti, 2019 Airstream Fellow Harrison Harb, Anis Mojgani, Flavia Rocha, Ed Skoog, Rose Swartz. We are proud to announce the Winner of our Poetry Fellowship this year is Harrison Harb! As the 4th Annual Airstream Poetry Fellow, Harrison will spend the week prior to the festival in the Sou’wester’s Potato Bug trailer and share his work at the Saturday night reading. Tickets for the festival: Tickets…

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$20

Reply All: Portland Review Reading

CENTRL Office Downtown 1155 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Original, borrowed, and found texts from Portland-based multidisciplinary artists and writers Anis Mojgani, Joni Renee Whitworth, and Jenny Vu. With live performances, and visual contributions that explore art, work, and collective attention -- and the communal possibilities for live literature. Hosted by Portland Review.

Free

WORDS AND PICTURES : A workshop w/ Anis Mojgani

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

So much of writing poetry is a combination of putting together different elements, whether congruous or not, to see what their juxtaposition creates in the imagination of the reader; of deciding what to put on the page and what to leave absent; and how these decisions give space for readers to become an active part of what they are reading. What happens when we add pictures into the mix, whether simple or complex ones? What poetic spaces in the writer and reader are created with these combinations? What sort of poems become poems when words and pictures are put together? Writing poetry often begins simply by letting something from inside unfurl untethered to reveal its shape to you, and then picking up to see what it…

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$25

Sanctuaries

The North Warehouse 723 North Tillamook Street, Portland, OR, United States

Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz-classical chamber opera, Sanctuaries, with a libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Champion Anis Mojgani and directed by Alexander Gedeon. Focusing on personal stories from the Albina neighborhood, this latest site-specific commission challenges Portland as a community to truly listen to and acknowledge marginalized voices while addressing issues of white privilege, racial equity and inclusion, and economic disparity. Work DARRELL GRANT | Sanctuaries Creative Team DARRELL GRANT | composer ANIS MOJGANIi | librettist ALEXANDER GEDEON | director EZRA WEISS | conductor YUKI IZUMIHARA | set designer CARL FABER | lighting designer BRANIC HOWARD | sound engineer Vocalists DAMIEN GETER | bass-baritone EMMANUEL HENREID | baritone MARILYN KELLER | ITHICA TELL…

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#Virtualandia! 2021: YOUTH POETRY SLAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

#Virtualandia! 2021 is an exciting opportunity for students from eligible Portland metro area high schools to take part in a dynamic virtual slam poetry competition, and to win prizes like the title of #Virtualandia Slam Champion and corresponding $1,000 Visa gift card. Up to 300 youth poets will submit original work via video by midnight on Wednesday, March 31 to be reviewed and judged by a diverse group of artists and fans with a pulse on the literary scene. Ten poets will advance to our April 29, 2021 grand slam championship event. During the grand slam, these ten students will have their poems professionally recorded, aired, and scored by five judges in the typical Verselandia! tradition, identifying a top five and our next Grand Slam Champion. Tickets for…

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Free – $100

The Milwaukie Poetry Series: Anis Mojgani Poetry Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Anis Mojgani's poetry reading will be livestreamed on May 12, 2021 on the Ledding Library YouTube Channel. (link is external) Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, he has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, AIR Serenbe, The Bloedel Nature Reserve, The Sou’wester, and the Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools program. Anis has done commissions for the Getty Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, and his work has appeared on HBO, National Public Radio, and as part of the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series; and in the pages of the NYTimes, Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review. Known for his performances and well regarded for them…

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2022 Tin House Summer Workshop Reading Series: Megan Giddings, Anis Mojgani, Lidia Yuknavitch

Reed College - Cerf Amphitheater 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

We are excited to once again be offering in-person readings as part of our 2022 Summer Workshop programming. Starting at 7:30 pm, these events will take place in Reed College’s Cerf Amphitheater and are free and open to the public. Faculty books will be available for purchase at the Reed Bookstore, with authors signing after the event. Masks are not required in the outdoor amphitheater. Megan Giddings has degrees from University of Michigan and Indiana University. She is a senior features editor at The Rumpus. In 2018, she was a recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial fund grant for feminist fiction. Her novel, Lakewood, was published by Amistad in 2020. It was one of New York Magazine’s 10 best books of 2020, one of NPR’s…

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Free

Literary Arts at Pickathon 2022

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Literary Arts has partnered with Pickathon to feature author readings and a live recording of our radio show and podcast, The Archive Project. Authors featured on the Windmill Stage, Sunday, August 7 from 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Omar El Akkad WHAT STRANGE PARADISE Santi Elijah Holley MURDER BALLADS Michelle Ruiz Keil SUMMER IN THE CITY Jules Ohman BODY GRAMMAR Jon Raymond DENIAL Justin Taylor RIDING WITH THE GHOST Cecily Wong KALEIDOSCOPE 12:00 p.m. in The Lucky Barn: Jon Raymond and Dao Strom in conversation with Anis Mojgani for The Archive Project. When artists explore different genres or mediums for themself, what does that process look like? Are the differing explorations in conflict with one another, or in conversation? Do they aid and abet each other? Hinder? Or perhaps…

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$45

Fonograf Editions Benefit Fundraiser

Stelo Arts 412 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Fonograf Ed.'s fundraising auction is live! The auction will help fund our 2023 catalog, which includes releases by De-Canon, Audre Lorde, Alice Notley, Tim Straw and Joshua Marie Wilkinson, among others (Registering is super easy and free.). The auction will run till Nov. 23rd here: https://app.galabid.com/fonograffundraiser/items On Sat. Nov 19th FE will also be hosting a live event at Stelo Arts in downtown PDX 7-9 PM featuring Dao Strom Anis Mojgani Bill Carty Patrick Dundon at Stelo Arts (Park Block/ 412 NW 8th Ave/ Portland, OR 97209) Drinks/snacks available, cash or Venmo

Free
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