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Nasty Women Poets Anthology Reading & Book Signing

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The resistance continues! Hear contributors to Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017) read their poems at this event hosted by Lost Horse Press and Co-Editors Grace Bauer and Julie Kane. Contributors who wish to read: please sign up when you arrive. The Cardinal Club is a 30-minute walk or a short taxi ride from the Convention Center. Food and drink available until midnight. Contact: Christine Holbert, Grace Bauer, Julie Kane

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Triple Book Release Party

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Come celebrate the release of three new poetry collections: Abigail Chabitnoy's How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan UP), Kristin George Bagdanov's Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean) and John Sibley Williams's As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Books). With additional readings by Melissa Resser Poulin, C.L. Young, and Philip Schaefer. Contact: Kristin George Bagdanov

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Oregon State MFA Alumni Reading

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for a reading from alumni of Oregon State University’s MFA program. Readers include Joe Aguilar, Maggie Anderson, Jessica Bartlett, Sally Blatt, Mike Chin, Sheila Dong, Karie Fugett, Taylor Grieshober, Sarah Kosch, Kate McIntyre, Steven Moore, Ben Sandman, Dahlia Seroussi, Cameron Shenassa, MacKenzie Smith, Natalie Villacorta, Michael Wasson, and Andrew Zingg. Contact: Natalie Villacorta

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Grand Slam Poetry (at AWP)

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Saturday of AWP at your favorite bar, and mine, the Cardinal Club, Ru (Nina) Puro, Rob Schlegel, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, and MC Hyland read from their latest work. Rob Schlegel's book is IN THE TREE WHERE THE DOUBLE SEX SLEEPS from University of Iowa Press. MC Hyland's book is THE END from Sidebrow. Elizabeth Clark Wessel founded and publishes ARGOS BOOKS, and Ru (Nina) Puro's ELEGY WITH PILOT LIGHT is an Argos chapbook. Her full-length collection is EACH TREE COULD HOLD A NOOSE OR A HOUSE.

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Seneca Review Reading

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Nicole Walker, Wendy S. Walters, and Erica Trabold read at the Cardinal Club, starting at 8:00 p.m. Nicole Walker is the author of The After-Normal, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press, and six other books. Wendy S. Walters is the author of a book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande Books, 2015), and two books of poems. Erica Trabold is the author of Five Plots, which was selected by John D’Agata as the inaugural winner of Seneca Review Books’ Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. Contact: Geoffrey Babbitt Nicole Walker, Wendy S. Walters, and Erica Trabold read at the Cardinal Club, starting at 8:00pm. Nicole Walker is the author of The After-Normal, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press. Her previous books include Sustainability:…

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5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

it’s that time again! this Thursday 8/15 come check out the newest edition of 5x5 with work by @futureeva @sh______ed @nathanwadecarter @jesswadleigh @daniela_naomi_molnar 8pm @cardinalclub 18 ne 28th ave Revisiting these retro 5x5 flyers, pretty cool lineups :) Next reading is 8/15, lineup TBA !! If you’re interested in participating send me a DM 5 x 5 is a monthly poetry reading series featuring 5 works by 5 local writers.

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5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Cardinal Club Presents: ~5x5~ 9/19/19 7 pm with new work by: Nathan Wade Carter Spencer Pond Isabel Zacharias Sarah Cutsforth Shloimy Notik this thursday! 7pm! come out for the newest edition of 5x5, with work by @purrbot @____iz__ @shloimynotik @milhouse_rules @sarahjanecuts

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5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

It’s that time again! Thursday 10/24 7pm, come out for the next edition of 5x5! This month featuring six rad poets sharing their newest work @cardinalclub @katslarue @fistsofmanilamae @__k___dog__ @deepspacemime @mademoiselledelphine @ayearofstrangehours Stop by and say hi

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Fur Not Light Party & Reading

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

To celebrate the publication of Jeff Alessandrelli's second poetry collection Fur Not Light Cardinal Club will be hosting a post-Halloween party/reading with some of Jeff's friends who helped him shape/edit the book. Special drinks and foodstuffs inspired by Fur Not Light will be for sale and free (chocolate) cake will also be available. This will be the international literary event of the decade. Fur Not Light press blurbicle: Taking its inspiration from the work of Russian Absurdist authors such as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, Fur Not Light interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. Incorporating serial poems such as “Nothing of the Month Club” and “December 32nd,” as well as the long ideogram-based work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in…

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5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Thursday 11/21 7:30pm @cardinalclub presents the next edition of 5x5 featuring the poetic musings of @queenofcalcium @katslarue @michellerayeoh @futureeva @justinwsant Stop by and say hi

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