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Oxeye Reader Portland launch reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room presents a launch reading for Oxeye Reader Issue 1: Portland, OR Sunday, September 27, at 7:00 PM Pacific Time, via Zoom (link TBA on , or DM Sam Lohmann) Featuring: David Abel Chris Ashby Jen Coleman Tom Fisher Jamondria Harris Endi Bogue Hartigan Lorraine Lupo & Paul Maziar Thomas Mowe Phoebe Wayne James Yeary Hosted by Jordan Dunn (publisher) and Sam Lohmann (guest editor) Oxeye Reader (Oxeye Press, Ames IA) is a new print journal published by Jordan Dunn. Each issue focuses on a different place, and issue 1 is Portland.

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Poets’ Benefit for PWNW—The dance moves on and prose limps hopelessly behind.

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a virtual reading & performance to benefit Performance Works Northwest Celebrating 20 years of Portland's most inspiring independent movement and performance venue, Performance Works NW (and 19 years of Spare Room), past and present members of the Spare Room reading series collective will come together from diverse locations to read and perform poems and things. Mark Owens, Maryrose Larkin, Laura Feldman, Chris Piuma, David Abel, Joseph Bradshaw, Sam Lohmann, Endi Hartigan, James Yeary, Jen Coleman, Chris Ashby Organized by David Abel of Passages Bookshop Pay what you will. Suggested $8-$25 If you need a free ticket email us at info@pwnw-pdx.org. ZOOM LINK TO THE EVENT WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU

Free – $25

Unrepeatable Peattie/Abel Yard Sale!

1005 SE 36th Avenue 1005 SE 36th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Extraordinary . . . Eclectic . . . Esoteric . . . International . . . Exquisite . . . Artistic Don't miss this unforgettable extravaganza!    & please tell your friends! Saturday, August 21 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (or so) Sunday, August 22 (BARGAIN DAY) 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm 1005 SE 36th Avenue (at Yamhill) No early birds and sorry, no pre-sales Cash, cards, and payment apps accepted Screaming deals! Vintage! Mod! Strange and Marvelous! Weird and wonderful home decor Select photos can be seen on the Facebook event page Tchotchkes & bibelots Adult trapeze with ropes 1920s Conn alto saxophone Chinese & Turkish ceramics Three Islamic-style side tables Large collection of mid-century lucite paperweights & objects Floor and table lamps Decorative…

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Passages Bookshop Open House and Reading/Performance: James Year, David Abel, Mark Owens

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Passages Bookshop Reopens on April 2 Please join us at an open house on the evening of April 2, with readings & performances by James Yeary, David Abel & Mark Owens. The occasion will also serve as a book launch for continue us, a book of poems designed for your home, neighborhood, and playmates by Marko Whens, with linotype composition and printing by Brian Scott Bagdonas. video of Marko performing at Passages in 2015 Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and remain open until just before the performance begins at 8:00 pm; they will be open again after the performance, at roughly 9:00 pm. Proof of vaccination required for admission, and face coverings required for all. (Readers will be unmasked while performing.) Saturday, April 2,…

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SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL [POSTPONED]

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Doors open at 7:00 pm; reading at 7:30 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step, the selected poems of Orides Fontela, is forthcoming from…

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SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Please note new date & time: Sunday, March 5 Doors open at 5:30 pm; reading at 6:00 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step,…

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Abel, Ashby, Ready, & Safdie

Soliloquy Fine Arts 2232 SE Clinton Street, Suite B, Portland, OR, United States

Soliloquy Fine Arts is hosting poetry readings on Saturdays in April, in connection with the exhibition Expanse, which features abstract atmospheric paintings and a large-scale mobile by Julie Rall and Ruth Meijer. Soliloquy Fine Arts 2232 SE Clinton Street, Suite B (back of bldg) Gallery hours on Saturdays: 1:00-4:00 pm Readings take place at intervals from 1:30 to 3:00 pm each day. See below for the schedule of readers. April 8: David Abel, Chris Ashby, Meg Ready, Joe Safdie April 15: Marina Lazzara, Jennifer Pons, Michelle Ruiz Keil April 22: Stephanie Baker, David Booth, Monica Regan April 29: Sarah Ellen Sims, Chanel Wiggan, James Yeary The April readings at Soliloquy have been curated by Elizabeth Costello.

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Susan Gevirtz & David Abel, Works on Paper

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound presents SUSAN GEVIRTZ DAVID ABEL Saturday, April 15 7:30 pm (doors open 7:00) $10-20 suggested donation; no one turned away Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 503-388-7665 ========================== SUSAN GEVIRTZ Susan Gevirtz will read and play voiceover soundtracks from her play Motion Picture Home recently published in the collection Burns from Pamenar Press. Motion Picture Home was written at the request of Kevin Killian who also directed it for a Poet’s Theatre jubilee in San Francisco. Named after the actual Motion Picture Home for retired stars and workers of the Hollywood movie industry in Los Angeles, it addresses the death there of Gevirtz’s grandfather, and other deaths and schisms such as divorce, wish, and liaisons between…

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Spare Room Annual Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein & Jackson Mac Low

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a marathon reading IDA  by  Gertrude Stein Pieces o’ Six  by  Jackson Mac Low Sunday, April 30 12:00 pm until finish (probably around 8:00-8:30 pm) Admission free Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The Spare Room Reading Series hosts an annual marathon reading, in which local writers, artists, and friends read aloud one or more booklength texts. This year's marathon features Gertrude Stein's short novel Ida (1945) and Jackson Mac Low's thirty-three "poems in prose"…

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Marathon reading: Keats & Boone

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room Reading Series presents our annual marathon reading: Endymion by John Keats & Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone Sunday, April 7, 2024 10:00 am until we finish (probably around 6:00-7:00 pm) Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur St., Suite 660, Portland Free admission; come and go as you please Readers include: David Abel, Chris Ashby, Chris Daniels, Laura Feldman, Rodney Koeneke, Sam Lohmann, Seann McCollum, Joe Safdie, Andrew Simon, & James Yeary. ============================================================== Also Upcoming at Passages April 3      Reading by Chris Daniels. Tom De Beauchamp, & Flavia Rocha ==============================================================

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