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Whitenoise Project 18: Two Year Anniversary

Art Haus 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

It's our 2nd birthday! Join Whitenoise Project as we begin our 3rd year amplifying Artists/Writers of Color and underrepresented voices, and celebrate POC-Centered Arts spaces with De-Canon's continued Residency at Milepost 5! We also want to make this into a potluck, cuz food, and also it was so great to see how the community showed up for each other at our 13th reading, last may for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Please bring a dish and label it with a description of ingredients! Also let us know what you're bringing and post pics if you can. With: Christopher Rose Maryam Miri Gabriel Mike Copperman Roland Dahwen Wu After the reading, we encourage people to attend Obsidian Stars - A Celebration of Black Lives and support…

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Tender Table: Jewels, Leo Ariel, Janessa Bautista

Art Haus 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Tender Table seeks out stories from women, trans men, and non-binary folks who are black, indigenous, or people of color about traditions around food, the restaurant industry, food’s impact on the body and body image, and everything in between our sweet, savory, sour, bitter relationships to food. February 24 marks Tender Table’s 2 year anniversary! Please join us for stories and food by: -Jewels -Leo Ariel -Janessa Bautista A $10-15 donation is suggested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. This is not a ticketed event; all are welcome. If you can't make it but want to donate, we accept donations via Venmo (@tendertablepdx). Funds raised are given directly to presenters. The De-Cannon Library at Milepost 5 has graciously agreed to…

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$10 – $15

The Team Mashallah Reading (AWP Offsite Event)

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Featured readers: Hanif Abdurraqib Kaveh Akbar Fatimah Asghar Safia Elhillo Angel Nafis!

Free

Center Justify: An Offsite Extravaganza

PSU Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St, Portland, OR, United States

Come join us for readings, performances, food (dinner will be served!), camaraderie, and more. This event is co-sponsored by The Accomplices (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, Writ Large Press), De-Canon: A Visibility Project, Whitenoise Project, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University, and The Operating System. Contact: Janice Lee CENTER JUSTIFY: An #AWP19 OFFSITE EXTRAVAGANZA Come join us for readings, performances, food (dinner will be served!), camaraderie, and more. This event is co-sponsored by: - The Accomplices (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, Writ Large Press) - De-Canon: A Visibility Project - Whitenoise Project - Asian American Writers' Workshop - Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University - The Operating System More details, including additional readers and a detailed hourly schedule are coming soon!…

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Asian American Poets Present New Books and Chapbooks (AWP Offsite Event)

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Poets of Kundiman, a national network of Asian American writers, share work from newly published books. George Abraham Jason Bayani Ching-In Chen Shamala Gallagher Vanessa Huang Sally Wen Mao

Free

AWP Offsite Reading: Meet Las Musas

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Las Musas is a collective of over twenty debut and sophomore Latinx young adult and middle-grade authors. Come and learn more about our work together and hear five of our fabulous members read from their current or forthcoming books at the lovely De-canon library at Milepost 5. www.lasmusasbooks.com Aida Salazar. author of The Moon Within Yamile Saied Méndez, author of Blizzard Besties Anna Meriano, author of the Love Sugar Magic series Ann Dávila Cardinal, author of Five Midnights Michelle Ruiz Keil, author of ALl of US With WIngs

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Poetry Month Party!

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month! We will be partying to honor all the writing we've done this month and all the writing we have yet to do! This will be an informal gathering with pot-lucking, open-micing, writing games and other social to semi-social activities. Bring your poetry, your pens and your snacks (labeled for ingredients please!) Our friends at De-Canon: A Visibility Project are allowing us to use their beautiful space which is ADA accessible. If you need other accommodations to attend the event, please reach out to PDX Poetry Fest and we will do our best to help. Be sure to go to address: 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR 97213. That’s the De-Canon entrance door to get in (not the Milepost…

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Whitenoise Project 21: Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader is a collection of a multiplicity of beautiful voices from the Philippine diaspora exploring visions we carry for our dynamic, intersectional communities in this historical moment. Come hear about the birthing of the book, sharing of contributor’s voices, and engage in dialogue about our collective radical imagination. Part of the APANO Arts & Media Project (AMP) Summer Series. Co-sponsored by Whitenoise Project and Pacific Underground. Featuring: Tony Santa Ana Melissa Ann Nevera Locano Leah Sicat Lani Felicitas

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All Pinxy All Stars at Milepost 5

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Join the Portland-based celebration(s!!) for the launch of Michelle Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE! Join us on September 18th for an evening with All Star Pinxy writers, Christopher Rose, Armin Tolentino, Janice Sapigao, Jake Vermaas along with Michelle, in APANO's De-Canon Library at Milepost 5. Portland- and Northern California- based poets will join forces to combine readings and karaoke into an extravaganza of entertainment and literary import! Doors open at 6:30pm, and readings/performances will begin promptly at 7:00pm! All are welcome and the event is free of charge.

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Submission Deadline: De-Canon + Fonograf Ed. Hybrid-Lit Anthology

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

De-Canon resumes its mission of “de-canonizing” by teaming up with Fonograf Editions to publish an anthology of hybrid-literary works by women and nonbinary BIPOC writers. This anthology will explore multimodal forms of writing that navigate the restless intersections of writing, visual art, and other media, and that innovate in their contemplations – and complications – of language and form. Submissions are open from October 1st to December 15, 2021. What is hybridity? What does it mean, and why does it matter now, to pay heed to hybrid modes of writing and art, to confluences of aesthetic mediums, to processes that make visible the seams and in-between spaces of the realms we ‘make’ in? How does the hybrid form potentially re-define “writing”? And, what fuels a…

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