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Talking Earth : Under the Influences

KBOO Radio 20 SE 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Hello Listeners! Amanda and Sophia will be hosting another edition of Talking Earth , on Monday , December 17th at 10pm ,pacific time. you can tune in at 90.7 kboo fm or online ar kboo.fm This show will have five gifted readers who will be reading their works AND the works of people who were inspirations in their own work . We call this show " Under the Influences" the readers for this night will be: Chrys Tobey Kristin Berger Amy Temple Pecos B Jett Come and Listen! this will be a fun and informative hour with some of Portland's very best writers .

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Women Writers Against Trump

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Women Writers Against Trump is a Portland-based biannual reading series hosted by poets Chrys Tobey and Allison Tobey. This evening's lineup will feature Armine Iknadossian, Nikia Chaney, Carol Potter, Nicelle Davis, Autumn Konopka, Xochitl Bermejo, and Leni Zumas.

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Summer Park Readings 2019 Vol 2: Galvin, Strom, Chiem, Tobey

Irving Park 707 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR, United States

Nobody likes to go to readings indoors when it's so nice outside! So it's time to dust off the portable amp and mic and claim a spot under a tree at one of Portland's best parks. Future Tense Books presents another year of Summer Park Readings. Volume Two of this legendary series features Sarah Galvin (from Seattle, author of Ugly Time), Dao Strom (Author of You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else), Richard Chiem (from Seattle, author of King of Joy), and Chrys Tobey (author of A Woman is a Woman is a Woman is a Woman). Bring a blanket, lawn chairs, snacks, bevs, puppies, friends, frisbees, and favorite shorts. It's all ages and free (though there will be books for sale). We might…

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Monthly Poetry – Andrea Hollander, Paulann Petersen, Chrys Tobey

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our monthly last-Thursday poetry reading! This month we have work from Andrea Hollander, Paulann Petersen, and Chrys Tobey. Blue Mistaken for Sky, Hollander’s fifth full-length poetry collection, reads like a memoir in verse. It explores a mature woman’s life after divorce. The poems are unselfconscious, and they detail with grace the pleasures and difficulties of aging and the evolution of personal relationships through a life. One Small Sun, by Paulann Petersen, takes readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a Hyderabadi shrine in India’s subcontinent. Its pages contain a meditation on post-mortem photographs, an ode to the female earwig, an elegy for a grandmother’s panache. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry’s ability to bring alive again what is coded into…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Chrys Tobey

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, February 8th, we'll have a feature from Chrys Tobey and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Red O'Hare! OUR FEATURE: Chrys Tobey Chrys Tobey’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including the minnesota review, Rattle, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace and The Cincinnati Review. Her poetry has also been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, and featured on Verse Daily. Her first book of poetry, A Woman is a Woman is a Woman is a Woman, was published in 2017 from Steel Toe Books. Chrys teaches for a few colleges and curates Women Writers Against…

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WTRLMNS reading!

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

WTRLMNS is a group of Portland poets who meet monthly to share and discuss their work. Join us for a reading by: VANDOREN WHEELER grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He has published poems in fine publications such as Forklift, OH, Conduit, and ratemyprofessor.com. His book The Accidentalist won the Dorothy Brunsman Prize and was published by Bear Star Press. He also creates single-copy art books by defacing children’s picture books. He teaches in Portland. CHRYS TOBEY’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Minnesota Review, Rattle, New Ohio Review, Verse Daily, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Her first book of poetry, A Woman is a Woman is a Woman is a Woman, was published in 2017 from Steel Toe Books.  She curates the reading series Women Writers Against Trump with her sister Allison…

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POST Launch and Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

RSVP to join us in celebration on May 8th at 7PM (PDT) for an online reading event. Recommended donation is $5 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Alissa Hattman will be joined by TJ Acena, Chalaundrai Grant, Hannah Pass, Lucie Bonvalet, Chrys Tobey and lark pien ~~~ Elevator Pitch: Love letters as postcards to people, spaces, and objects. The Details: "POST" is an epistolary collection of postcards written by Alissa Hattman during the American Short Fiction Constellation Challenge. This was a month-long writing experiment that took place in November 2020. In the collection, Alissa explores distance from loved ones, spaces, and objects with intense depth and nuance. She offers poignant observations about our relationship to the passage of time, memories, and ideas. The…

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