A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Join SFWP and Mason Jar Press at Passages Bookshop during #AWP2019 for a reading and book launch with Elizabeth Geoghegan, Wendy J Fox, Tyrese Coleman, Claire Rudy Foster and Danny Caine. Free to attend + books + beer. Meet other SFWP & Mason Jar Press Authors.
Hear Saturnalia authors Star Black, Derek Mong, Martha Silano, and Hadara Bar-Nadav. Star Black and Martha Silano will read from their hot-off-the-presses spring 2019 poetry collections!
Join us in a safe, inclusive space for oracular rumination by poets who practice craft and craft! There will poems, bar breaks, pub food and drink, a back patio, invocations, and a ritual at midnight for healing in the literary community. EVA BERTOGLIO is an artist, writer and lifelong Oregonian. Her work can be found in 50 Haikus, Oregon's Best Emerging Poets, Pom Pom Lit, and the chapbook First Winter of Persephone. She lives in Portland, OR LISA CICCARELLO is the author of At Night (Black Ocean, 2015), as well as several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, The Academy of American Poets, Denver Quarterly, the PEN Poetry Series, Handsome, & The Volta, among others. She adores gothic mysteries, candle-making & creating literary…
Kim Stafford, Oregon Poet Laureate, and Claudia Castro Luna, Washington Poet Laureate, invite all current and former fellow laureates (of nation, state, or city) to a conversation about forms of service through poetry—shop talk about special projects, outreach to diverse communities, and how we do the best we can to bring poetry to the people. Contact: Kim Stafford & Claudia Castro Luna
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry and Museum of Metal Typography is holding an open house from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 30. Housed in a Northeast Portland industrial complex, the foundry and working museum are dedicated to cultivating the connection between the art of fine letterpress printing and the industry of making the metal ornaments and type that it requires. Come and visit one of the only type foundries between San Francisco and Vancouver, BC, and see how type is made. Contact: Joseph Green
A live podcast, featuring: Keisha Gaye-Anderson, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, Gretchen Primack, Curtis Crisler, Rachelle Escamilla, Elmaz Abinader, Loreen Lee, Annette McGivney, Randall Horton (emcee) All-star reading featuring the award-winning poets and authors of Willow Books!
The Portland Art & Learning Studio is a 10,000 sq. ft. nonprofit space for artists and writers with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our writers will be reading from their recent works (poems, short fictions, and articles), describing their process, and offering tours of our studio. PALS' favorites will be in attendance, such as Aaron Hutchinson and Ema Staniscu, to answer questions, create surrealist poetry, and sign books. Limited-edition chapbooks and zines will be exclusively available for purchase at this event. Copies of our monthly newsletter will also be available. Contact: Daniel Rolnik, Gallery Director
NO FAIR/FAIR is a 2 day + 1 night literary festival celebrating small independent presses that will take place alongside the 2019 AWP Conference in Portland, OR. The book fair will be held at the Bakery Building and will feature 25 small presses. The reading on Friday night will feature over 60 readers, and will be hosted at two venues simultaneously, the Bakery Building and Outlet PDX. The venues are across the street from each other in a neighborhood full of bars and restaurants, and only one mile east from the conference center. NF/F is not anti-AWP. Our goal is to offer an affordable alternative for small presses that would like to participate in the conference, but don’t quite have the budget to make it…
Rapid-fire Rock and Roll readings! First reader at 1:30 p.m.! Doors at 1 p.m.! No cover! DJ after the reading! Lots of exclamation points! Readers include Kenyatta Rogers, Daniel Nester, Jason Tougaw, Karen Leona Anderson, Jean Ho, Jennifer Baker, Author Charlie J. Eskew, Amanda Miska, Danny Caine, Emma Smith-Stevens MC: Amy Silverberg DJ: Jason Tougaw
Come hear Kristin Dykstra, Joe Elliot, Tomer Inbar, Michael Ruby, Eirik Steinhoff and Sam Truitt enter and intone the poetic continuum! See below bios: Kristin Dykstra writes about people, places, and culture, with a special interest in motions and intersections amongst the Americas. She is the translator of many book-length collections of Latin American literature, including a set of bilingual editions published by the University of Alabama Press in 2014–2016, featuring Cuban authors Reina María Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Angel Escobar, and Marcelo Morales. In 2018 Dykstra guest-edited a dossier dedicated to Flores (1962–2016) in The Chicago Review. With Kent Johnson, Dykstra is co-editor of Materia Prima, an anthology showcasing poetry by Amanda Berenguer (Uruguay) for Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the principal translator of…