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

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Kim Krans

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

From Powell's website: Explore your very own Wild Unknown as you embark on an odyssey of reflection, self-discovery, and creative inspiration with Kim Krans’s The Wild Unknown Journal (HarperOne). Beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered throughout, The Wild Unknown Journal pairs lush watercolor imagery and elegant art similar to Krans’s Wild Unknown Tarot and Animal Spirit decks and guidebooks.

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Certificate Program Reading

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

Please join us for a reading of works in progress from the writers & artists in the Poetry, Prose, Art Book & Comics tracks of the Certificate Program. Free and open to the public. 7pm Mingle 7:30pm readings

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2019 Certificate Program Graduation

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

Please join the IPRC Community and Certificate Program Faculty to celebrate the Graduation of the Poetry, Prose and Art Book tracks.

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From Hell’s Heart Signing – Excalibur Comics

Excalibur Comics 2444 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

On September 21st from 1 - 3 PM, Excalibur Comics is excited to welcome John Arcudi, Matt Sheean & Brandon Graham for a signing event 100 years in the making! Join editor John Arcudi (B.P.R.D, Rumble) and artists Matt Sheean (Expansion, Ancestor) & Brandon Graham (Prophet, Island) as they celebrate Herman Melville’s Bicentennial with their gorgeous new art book FROM HELL’S HEART published by A Wave Blue World. FROM HELL’S HEART is the new high quality artbook featuring over 50 brand new illustrations commemorating Melville's greatest work including MOBY DICK, BARTLEBY, THE CONFIDENCE MAN, BILLY BUDD and many more.

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Release of Alyson Provax’s “What are we waiting for”

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate the release of Alyson Provax’s “What are we waiting for”, a limited edition art book composed of digital reproductions of letterpress prints. 4.25 x 6.5 inches, softcover, with letterpress printed jacket. • In the artist’s words: “In it I work through themes of uncertainty, the unknown, legibility, and what makes something complete. I drew on my own love of books and reading, and have explored the format of the book by responding to the reader’s hand.” • Event at PNCA’s new Book Arts Room, 511 SW Broadway, Portland. 6-8pm with reading by Jennifer Rabin @jenniferrabin at 6:45. This event is wheelchair accessible.

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Books & Prints by Ian van Coller

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

Passages Bookshop is excited to announce our summer exhibition •••• BOOKS & PRINTS BY IAN VAN COLLER •••• July 8 – August 20, 2022 Covid precautions: Proof of vaccination and masks required ================================================ For the past decade, Ian van Coller has traveled the globe in pursuit of images that communicate the realities of climate change and deep time. He has photographed disappearing glaciers, endangered and threatened birds, the oldest trees on earth, and the oldest ice yet discovered, traveling to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, the cloud forest of Colombia, Svalbard in the high Norwegian Arctic, and Glacier, Great Basin, and Rocky Mountain National Parks in the Western United States. He has accompanied climate scientists on expeditions to remote glaciers on…

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