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PLUME Poetry Reading

CARGO 81 SE Yamhill Street, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for a reading to mark the official launch of our annual print anthology, this year's Plume Poetry 7. A stellar lineup of poets will read their work, including Annie Finch, Peter Cooley, Nicole Cooley, Alice Friman, Terese Svoboda, Patricia Clark, Scott Withiam, David Baker, Dennis Nurkse, Lloyd Schwartz, Daniel Tobin, Mark Irwin, and Clare Rossini, with perhaps a few others. Always a lively affair! This year we are at CARGO, a very short Uber or Lyft ride away. Afterwards, we'll repair to a nearby bar/restaurant, where, of course, the conversations and gossip continue. Contact: Daniel Lawless. Editor, PLUME

Free

Poetry & Magic (Offsite AWP Reading)

The Raven's Wing Magical Co. 7927 SE 13th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Make magick with us during AWP! An evening designed to draw down the intimate relationship between poetry and magic, to create the terrain of rhythm, form and shape where word and enchantment walk together. Let's charge ourselves for personal, spiritual, and political transformation. Featuring: Katy Bohinc Lee Ann Brown Dominique Christina Joshua Davis Annie Finch Monica Mody Genevieve Pfeiffer Sheree Renée Thomas Joanna C. Valente Thursday, March 28 @ 8pm The Raven's Wing Magical Co. 7927 SE 13th Ave, Portland, OR 97202 Free admission. Curated by Monica Mody and Annie Finch. *** BIOS Katy Bohinc is the author of Dear Alain (Tender Buttons, 2014), letters to the French philosopher Alain Badiou about poetry, philosophy, and love, and a book of poems about the divine feminine,…

Free

The Black Earth Institute (About Place Journal) & Cutthroat Journal

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The Black Earth Institute (About Place Journal) and Cutthroat's Truth to Power anthology unite for a luminous reading with Pam Houston, Annie Finch, Wang Ping, Patricia Smith, Lauren Camp, Pam Uschuk, Austin Smith, Jacqueline Johnson, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Todd Davis, Claudia F. Savage, D.J. Lee, JM Miller, Melissa Tuckey, Zoe Brigley, Janel Cloyd, Tiffany Higgins, Julia K. Dasbach, Madrona Holden, Daniel J. Martin, Genevieve Manset, Pam Uschuk, Aliki Barnstone, Nickole Brown, Beth Alvarado, Heidi Erdrich, Howie Faerstein, William Luvaas, Melissa Studdard, Dan Vera, Tom Fate, and Jesse Waters. Contact: Claudia F. Savage

Free