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Afternoon Reading! w/Destiny Birdsong, Melissa Goodrich & More!

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Join us Saturday afternoon for a chill midday reading with some stellar poets and writers! It's free (FREE!) and there are awesome beers and happy hour snacks at The Rose City Book Pub, Portland's coolest bookstore/tavern! Dr. Destiny Birdsong Melissa Goodrich (Daughters of Monsters, The Classroom) Amanda Galvan Huynh (Songs of Brujeria, forthcoming) Matthew Sadler (The Much Love Sad Dawg Trio)

Free

Lavender Ink and River Writers Present the Krewe de Louisiane

The Big Legrowlski 812 NW Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Lavender Ink (New Orleans) and the River Writers Reading Series (Baton Rouge, LA) bring you masters of poetry and prose from Louisiana, Dixie, and beyond! We’ll bring you a diverse set of literary styles from a varied group of authors. The lineup includes Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from his novel and Rodger Kamenetz reading from his new book of poetry. Come hear some literature, drink an afternoon beer, and have some fun! Contact: Jonathan Penton Lavender Ink (New Orleans) and the River Writers Reading Series (Baton Rouge, LA) bring you masters of poetry and prose from Louisiana, Dixie, and beyond! We’ll bring you a diverse set of literary styles from a varied group of authors. The lineup includes Devon Balwit, Vincent Cellucci, Mel Coyle, Moira…

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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here! Bilingual Poetry Reading

Multnomah County Library - Central Library 801 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for poetry readings, in Arabic and English, by members of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here! Coalition. The March 5, 2007, bombing of the “ancient bookseller’s street” in Baghdad is remembered as the street of the Shabandar Café, where Iraqi writers, intellectuals and ordinary people would congregate to work and converse. This was an attack on books and on ideas that pierced the heart of San Francisco poet and bookseller Beau Beausoleil, who has put out numerous calls for artist, printers, poets, writers and print makers to respond to this attack. In 2019, more than 30 cities around the world, including Portland, are celebrating this stand for culture. Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here! Coalition of Oregon has celebrated hope and joy to defeat terrorism every year…

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Free

SW x NW Glitterati Reading

Reverend Nat's Hard Cider 1813 NE 2nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The SW x NW Glitterati Reading: Saturday, March 30 from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at Rev. Nat’s Hard Cidery & Tap Room, 1813 NE 2nd Ave, just across the river from the Convention Center. Featuring: Felicia Zamora, Vickie Vértiz, TC Tolbert, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Angela Peñaredondo, Kristen Nelson, Farid Matuk, Natalie Lima, Brigitte Lewis, Hannah Ensor, Irene Cooper, Christopher Boucher, and Beth Alvarado. Enjoy Reverend Nat's special edition Glitterati cider featuring nuanced flavors, subtext, and a glittery finish. Contact: Beth Alvarado

Free

Buckman Publishing Presents

Tiny's Coffee - South East 1412 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Portland-based press Buckman Publishing presents readings from in-house authors Rich Perin, Craig Foster, Sara Kachelman, Liz Lampman, and Eli Hopkins for Anita Lobo. Visiting authors Hilary Zaid, Maw Shein Win, and Jessica Dylan Miele round out the lineup. Buckman books will be available for sale at Tiny’s Coffee Friday and Saturday as part of a Pop-Up Bookshop sponsored by Buckman Publishing, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, and Belmont Books. Contact: Sara Kachelman and Rich Perin

Free

Cheers! A Happy Hour Poetry Salon

Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

Grab a cocktail and enjoy some poetry! It’s happy hour on Saturday, so join us in celebrating new work, new books, and raise your glass to say, “Cheers!” Free admission | 21+ Location: Crush Bar 1400 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR 97214 3:00-5:00pm (show up a little early to grab a drink and a seat!) ***** Readers: Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose work has either appeared or is forthcoming in African American Review, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2018, The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, storySouth, Guernica, and elsewhere. Destiny has won the Academy of American Poets Prize, Naugatuck River Review’s 2016 Poetry Contest, and Meridian’s 2017 “Borders” Contest in Poetry. She has received support from Cave…

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Amber Tamblyn

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

An intimate meditation and public reckoning, Era of Ignition (Crown Archetype) is a passionate exploration of feminism during divisive times by actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn.

Free

Guerilla Translation: Contemporary Brazilian Poetry

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

This presentation is a part of the Just Off Site: Passages Bookshop Literary Festival. Translators of contemporary Brazilian poetry will present and discuss the ways in which translation serves as vehicles for literary, cultural, and transnational activism, examining the broader implications of the art of translation as its practice is embedded within social, cultural, political, and aesthetic matrices. Participants: Hilary Kaplan, Chris Daniels, and Sean Negus. Contact: David Abel & Sean Negus

Free

AWP Offsite: Tiny’s Shot of Afternoon Espresso

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Wake yourself up with some fantastical frothy fiction and pour-over poetry from supercool and caffeinated nonbinary and lady writers at Tiny's Coffee shop. Featuring short readings from Jamie Mortara, K Chess, Nino Cipri, Jenn Marie Nunes, Mo McFeely, Laurin DeChae, and Maria Romasco Moore. jamie mortara (they/them/their) is a queer poet, performer, publisher, organizer, and artist. jamie is author of the poetry collections GOOD MORNING AMERICA I AM HUNGRY AND ON FIRE (YesYes Books, 2018) and SOME PLANET (YesYes Books, 2015) and the interactive fiction collection small creatures / wide field (tNY Press). Three of their DIY zines are indie bestsellers and the others are likely scattered to the winds somewhere. jamie is founder of the audio poetry magazine Voicemail Poems, a National Poetry Slam…

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Ohio University Friends and Alumni Reading

Cup & Bar 118 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Come and visit an awesome cafe and coffee house, and hear graduates of the Ohio University graduate Creative Writing program read poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Readers are: Jennifer Pullen, Sarah Minor, Gary Thomas Smith, Claire Eder, Kat Saunders, Brad Aaron Modlin, and Katie Berta. Contact: Jennifer Pullen

Free
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