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!

armin tolentino

  1. Events
  2. armin tolentino

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

OBJECT IN MOTION – Patrick Newson & Friends

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

From Mother Foucault's Bookshop's website: Join us on Saturday, November 3 for a reading with Patrick Newson from his newest book, AN OBJECT IN MOTION, released in September from Nomadic Press. Patrick will be joined by local poets in an event emceed by Ben Ficklin. Readers: Armin Tolentino Patrick Newson Laura May Andy Valentine Rachel Springer Music: VALS (Chris “The Doctor” Spencer) Patrick Newson who grew up in a town with “more guns than / citizens,” is intimate with both sides of the issue, and he examines with a fierce clarity every encounter with weapons and weapon wielders over his lifetime. Shapes of guns and their destructive force are even present in the layout of some of the poems. Both critical of and sensitive to the…

Continue readingOBJECT IN MOTION – Patrick Newson & Friends
Free

Books & Brews

Sidebar (Lompoc Brewing) 3901A N Williams Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Offsite reading, featuring: Susan Straight, Matt Bell, Randa Jarrar, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kevin Sampsell, Lydia Kiesling, Adrienne Celt, Miciah Bay Gault, Allegra Hyde, Tabitha Blankenbiller, Armin Tolentino, Beth Gilstrap, Michael Schmeltzer, David Leo Rice, and more. Free swag and a free raffle throughout the night. Readers will sign and have books for sale. Food, including gluten-free options, and Lompoc craft beer for purchase. Bar is open until midnight. Facility is accessible, indoors, all-ages. Parking is street parking only, and very limited; car service recommended. Contact: Leah Angstman

Free

Phantom Drift Literary Reading

Look Long Brewing Company 6550 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Phantom Drift is a non-profit journal dedicated to publishing fabulist writers and artists by producing a perfect-bound print edition and paying contributors for their work. Come hear some fantastical poetry and excerpts from these surreal and unusual pieces by local writers. The lineup so far includes Phantom Drift Editor Matt Schumaker, Brittany Corrigan, Donna Prinzmetal, John Morrison, Armin Tolentino, Pattie Palmer-Baker, and Devon Balwit.

Free

Kate Gray and Armin Tolentino

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We welcome poets Kate Gray and Armin Tolentino reading from their newest collections: For Every Girl (Widow and Orphan House) and We Meant to Bring it Home Alive (Alternating Current Press), respectively, at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 17th. For Every Girl is a love song to and celebration of the girl, the queer, the survivor in all of us. In these poems we find not only testimony to the resiliency of girls but an invitation to delight in the pure pleasure of their joy. The book features new and selected poems and includes a conversation between Gray and Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen. Frances Payne Adler, poet and founder of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU-Monterey Bay, says “I am…

Continue readingKate Gray and Armin Tolentino
Free

All Pinxy All Stars at Milepost 5

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Join the Portland-based celebration(s!!) for the launch of Michelle Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE! Join us on September 18th for an evening with All Star Pinxy writers, Christopher Rose, Armin Tolentino, Janice Sapigao, Jake Vermaas along with Michelle, in APANO's De-Canon Library at Milepost 5. Portland- and Northern California- based poets will join forces to combine readings and karaoke into an extravaganza of entertainment and literary import! Doors open at 6:30pm, and readings/performances will begin promptly at 7:00pm! All are welcome and the event is free of charge.

Free

Refugee and Migrant Rights Fundraiser

Dig A Pony 736 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR, United States

A combination reading and concert event raising funds for Team Brownsville and the McAllen Immigrant Respite Center, with poems by Kim Stafford, Armin Tolentino, Sophia Shalmiyev, Ana Maria Ferreira, and Gwendolyn Morgan, as well as live music, and raffles for donated good from Literary Arts, the IPRC, Tavern Books, Zig Zag Wanderer, Holocene, and more.

Free

Poetry Night – JC Mehta, Gwendolyn Morgan, Armin Tolentino

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our monthly poetry night! This month we’ll hear from JC Mehta, Gwendolyn Morgan, and Armin Tolentino. SAVAGERY joins JC Mehta’s oeuvre as a reflection of what it means to be indigenous in today’s increasingly hostile, post-colonial America. Reflecting on self, place, and space and with strong confessional leanings, SAVAGERY joins the ranks of other much-needed indigenous poetry of the era to provide a lens (and mirror) into indigenous issues and disparities while also providing a constant offering of hope. These poems are raw and very, very necessary. Gwendolyn Morgan’s Before the Sun Rises offers richly textured poetic renderings of and emotional responses to natural landscapes. Her poems hold a deep sense of care for and rootedness in the natural world. She weaves…

Continue readingPoetry Night – JC Mehta, Gwendolyn Morgan, Armin Tolentino
Free

Free Range Poetry: Christina Butcher, Jonathan Merritt, Armin Tolentino

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

Free Range Poetry presents Christina Butcher, Jonathan Merritt, Armin Tolentino Monday, November 4, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland An open mic will precede featured poets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. CHRISTINA BUTCHER is a freelance writer and veteran from Chaparral, New Mexico. Before serving as a linguist in the U.S. Army, she worked on cultural preservation projects and developed a passion for storytelling and community involvement. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from New Mexico State University and a certificate in storytelling and content strategy from Washington State University. She lives and writes in Tacoma, Washington. JONATHAN MERRITT is a mara'akame, a traditional…

Continue readingFree Range Poetry: Christina Butcher, Jonathan Merritt, Armin Tolentino
Free
Click a category label below to view the calendar with only events in that specific category.