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Old Pal Launch Reading!

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

Drink wine, pal around, and listen to readings from four of inaugural contributors. Bios below. Colleen Burner is a Midwestern-raised writer and artist, co-editor of Shirley Magazine, and Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient. Their work has appeared in Quaint Magazine, Permafrost, Black Candies: Gross and Unlikable, and Entropy. Erin Perry lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Caroline Wilcox Reul is the translator of Wer lebt / Who Lives by Elisabeth Borchers (Tavern Books, 2017) and the current poetry editor for the Timberline Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the PEN Poetry Series, Tupelo Quarterly, Poetry International, Lunch Ticket, The Los Angeles Review and others. Consuelo Wise grew up on the Lost Coast in Northern California.

Free

The Stacks Coffeehouse Grand Opening Party (ALL DAY)

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Help us celebrate the opening of The Stacks Coffeehouse! We'll have five minute readings all day long by a wide variety of amazing local authors. Schedule and details to come, but we'd love to see you that day! Readers: Mary Milstead, Nathan Metcalfe, Bradley J. Clark, Alicia Jo Rabins, Thea Prieto, Matt Robinson, Natalie Serber, Alexandra Brown & David Brown, Melissa Lynne, Melissa Duclos, Kimberly King Parsons, Elizabeth Pickard, Hannah Pass, Colleen Burner, Heather Napulani Hodges, Jenevive Desroches, Cecily Patterson, Jackie Shannon Hollis, Kevin Sampsell, Liz Prato, Alexa Weinstein, Joanna Rose, Amelia Woodside, Brian M. Biggs, Amber Keller, Stevan Allred, Kendra Ferguson, Kate Gray, Mo Daviau, Yuvi Zalkow, Jan Neudeck, Josh Lubin, Brian Benson, Leanna Moxley, Laura Stanfill

Free