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Claire Rudy Foster and Felicity Fenton

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

A Conversation about Addiction, with Claire Rudy Foster and Felicity Fenton Claire Rudy Foster is the author of two short story collections: Shine of the Ever and I've Never Done This Before. Their fiction, essays, and miscellaneous writings appear in The New York Times, McSweeney's, The Washington Post, and many other places. A native of Portland, Claire lives, reads, and works in NW. Felicity Fenton’s multidisciplinary work (social practice, photography, installation) has been featured in public and private spaces around the globe. Most recently, her stories and essays have been featured in WOBBY, Fanzine, Split Lip Press, Wigleaf, The Flexible Persona, and forthcoming in Iowa Review. By day she works as a Creative Director and Radio Host at Freeform Portland. She calls Portland, Oregon home…

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Correspondences: A Collaboration

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

What corresponds? What doesn't, but should? What happens when correspondence turns to collaboration, and what’s bred from its absence? Come out to hear these writers respond to these questions through their collaborations and individual poems. Hosts: The Bay Area Correspondence School and Lone Glen About the Authors: Mary-Kim Arnold is the author of Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press, 2018) and the chapbook Between Night & Night (Artifact Press, 2018). Her poetry collection, The Fish & The Dove is forthcoming (Noemi Press, 2020). She teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University. MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis, and Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press.) Chavez was a recipient of a 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and in the same year,…

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Six Poets Walk Into a Canvas…

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

Poetry and visual art have been hanging out together forever. Where’s the spark in that relationship given today’s image-saturated world? F. Douglas Brown, Jericho Brown, Dana Teen Lomax, Sawako Nakayasu, Sarah Rosenthal, and Valerie Witte will read from work that offers a contemporary take on the ekphrastic tradition.

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Wendy Willis and David Biespiel

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

Wendy Willis is a poet and essayist from Portland, Oregon. She is also the Founder and Director of Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a program of the National Policy Consensus Center (in the Hatfield School of Government) at Portland State University and the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, a global network of organizations and leading scholars working in the field of deliberation and public engagement. Her next book of essays, These are Strange Times, My Dear, was released in February. Her last book of poems, A Long Late Pledge, is a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Award. David Biespiel is the author of eleven books, including Republic Café, published in 2019, The Education of a Young Poet, which was selected a Best Books for…

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Signs, Seals and Sigils: The Occult Science of Magic Script

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

William Kiesel of Ouroboros Press Sigillic scripts are common in the grimoires and manuals of magic. Learn about magical alphabets, asemic writing and the diverse symbols, signs & signets of practical occultism. What is the difference between a sigil and a seal? How are they constructed and used? Join us and find out! In this class Kiesel will discuss the techniques of sigil construction as found in the texts of the traditional grimoires, magic squares, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as well as Austin Osman Spare and other contemporaries. William Kiesel has been a practitioner of Hermetic Qabalah for three decades and is known for his ability to clearly express the abstract ideas found in esoteric traditions. He is the publishing director at…

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All of Me Book Event – Daedalus Books Portland

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

Join "All of Me" editor Dani Burlison and Portland writers Karleigh Frisbie Brogan and Amanda Blix--along with live music from feminist ukulele duo Sorry Not Sorry-- for a night of anger and laughs... * Amanda Blix is an artist, mother and lover of the earth. Her work has appeared in Hip Mama, Vision Quest, Rad Dad, the New York Times and 2 anthologies by the Sound Grounds Wrecking Crew. She has self-published 11 comic book zines and is the illustrator and collaborator of the zine series Which is Witch. She lives in Portland with her family and is about to finish her final year of mystery school (if she doesn't drop out first). * Dani Burlison is the creator and editor of All of Me:…

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Daedalus Books Reading and Book Signing

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, United States

One week from today! free, accessible, & all are welcome New work from: Daniel H. Wilson (author of Robopocalypse), Jason Gurley (author of Eleanor), Benjamin Parzybok (author of Sherwood Nation), Curtis C. Chen (author of Waypoint Kangaroo), Jasmine Gower (author of Moonshine), and Arthur Smid (author of You Will Win the Future)

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A Reading with Coleman Stevenson, Shayla Lawson, Stephanie Adams-Santos

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Hosted on Zoom by Daedalus Books and Deep Overstock RSVP at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-mgqTMiE9aRJKRBm1NNrgGjRqVBIK4g. Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poetry (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), The Dark Exact Tarot Guide, and a book of essays accompanying the card game Metaphysik. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications such as Seattle Review, Mid-American Review, Louisiana Literature, tarot.com, and the anthology Motionless from the Iron Bridge. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the Pacific Northwest, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon,…

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