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Land Acknowledgement

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Elder and poet Ed Edmo of the Shoshone-Bannock tribe will formally and fully recognize the area's indigenous people in this first-ever Land Acknowledgement for Lit Crawl Portland and Portland Book Festival. Edmo will be joined by indigenous writers including Heid E. Erdrich, Terese Marie Mailhot, and Tommy Orange. Following the Acknowledgement, poets Laura 'Da of the Eastern Shawnee and Trevino L. Brings Plenty of the Lakota will read. Support provided by Counterpoint Press, Catapult, and Soft Skull Press.

Free

2019 AWP Party w/ Catapult, One Story, PEN America, Story Prize

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

Let's celebrate the PEN America Best Debut Short Story anthologies, the forthcoming The Story Prize anthology, and two literary journals — Catapult and One Story! We'll drink, eat, be merry, and talk short stories with our fellow readers and writers. Food available for order, and free drink tickets for as long as they last!

Free

LIT in Portland

Friendly House Gymnasium 1737 NW 26th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Hang out with your favorite people, see old friends, and make some new ones at this awesome offsite dance party! Five literary organizations have come together to host the party everyone will be talking about. Get down on the dance floor with guest DJs Hanif Abdurraqib, Eloisa Amezcua, Alexander Chee, Melissa Febos, and MC Patrick Boyle. Cash bar, snacks, free swag, selfie booth with props, balloons, black lights, so many balloons—we can't emphasize that enough. Get your LIT on in Portland and let loose! #LITinPortland Contact: Julie Buntin, Megan Galbraith, Emily Gilbert, Nata

Free

Lacy M. Johnson, Alexander Chee, Reema Zaman & Marissa Korbel

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

Memoir Monday is a monthly reading series and weekly newsletter cocurated by Narratively, The Rumpus, Longreads, Catapult, Tin House, Granta, and Guernica. At a special AWP edition of Memoir Monday, authors Lacy M. Johnson, Alexander Chee, Reema Zaman, and Marissa Korbel join us for a reading of their work – emceed by Lilly Dancyger, Memoir Editor of Narratively.

Free
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