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Mother Foucault’s 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, United States

Join us at the 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival at Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, Washington! October 25-27, join publishers, authors, and plain old book lovers for potlucks in the pavilion, readings, workshops, walks by the sea, and maybe even some karaoke at the Sou’wester Lodge and Trailer Park in Seaview, Washington. Featuring: Alejandro de Acosta, John Beer, Gerald Costanzo, Karolinn Fiscaletti, 2019 Airstream Fellow Harrison Harb, Anis Mojgani, Flavia Rocha, Ed Skoog, Rose Swartz. We are proud to announce the Winner of our Poetry Fellowship this year is Harrison Harb! As the 4th Annual Airstream Poetry Fellow, Harrison will spend the week prior to the festival in the Sou’wester’s Potato Bug trailer and share his work at the Saturday night reading. Tickets for the festival: Tickets…

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Contemporary Brazilian Poetry at Portland State

Portland State University - Fariborz Maseeh Hall 1855 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

This Thursday, PSU presents the poets Rodrigo Bravo and Flavia Rocha, along with translator Sean Nagus. They will read from their own work and also participate in a discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature. The presentation is free and open to the public. Rodrigo Bravo is a translator and researcher in Linguistics with emphasis in translation of poetic discourse, comparative literature and stychology. Lecturer at the graduate school of music at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, he develops his doctoral research at the Graduate School of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at USP. Curator of the TransFormações exposition, at Casa das Rosas (SP) (2017), he also serves as a member of the editorial board of the literary series Neûron at Editora Córrego. Bravo authored academic essays, articles and the books Ernesto na Torre…

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Spare Room reading: Bravo, Rocha, & Negus

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

An evening of Brazilian poetry in Portuguese & English with RODRIGO BRAVO FLÁVIA ROCHA SEAN NEGUS RODRIGO BRAVO holds a Master’s in Linguistics with a background in Classics and Hebrew Studies at the University of São Paulo. He is a translator and researcher in linguistics with emphasis in translation of poetic discourse, comparative literature, and stychology. Lecturer at the graduate school of music at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, he develops his doctoral research at the Graduate School of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at USP. Curator of the TransFormações exposition, at Casa das Rosas (SP) (2017), he also serves as a member of the editorial board of the literary series Neûron at Editora Córrego. Bravo authored academic essays, articles and the books Ernesto na Torre de…

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The 2020 Brazilian Literary Spring in the U.S.

Lewis & Clark - Gregg Pavilion 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

The Printemps Littéraire Brésilien is part of a research and educational initiative that is also aims to promote Lusophone literatures around the World. This annual colloquium was originally idealized by professor Leonardo Tonus (Sorbonne Université) to promote and to expand the training of students in institutions of higher education. Since its inception in 2014, the event has become an important space for debates on Brazilian literature, fomenting new readings and enriching experiences around the Portuguese language. In the 2020 U.S. edition, readings and panels will take place in several cities across the country between February 16th and April 16th. The event is organized in partnership with universities and cultural organizations: Columbia University, Brown University, Indiana University, University of New Mexico, University of Washighton, Oregon Center…

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Endi Bogue Hartigan & Flávia Rocha in Conversation

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us in celebration of the launch of oh orchid o’clock (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023) by Endi Bogue Hartigan who will introduce her new collection. She will be joined by Brazilian poet Flávia Rocha, who will read from her most recent book Exosfera. Enjoy an evening of lyric investigations into space, time, our time, and orchids, followed by a short discussion and Q&A. This collection speaks the language of the clock as a living instrument, exposing the sensory impacts of our obsession with time. In oh orchid o’clock, lyrics wind through histories like a nervous system through a body. The poems speak to how we let our days become over-clocked, over-transactional, and over-weaponed. With an instrumental sensibility, Endi Bogue Hartigan investigates what it is to be…

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Chris Daniels, Tom De Beauchamp, & Flavia Rocha (Spare Room Reading)

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

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by CHRIS DANIELS TOM DE BEAUCHAMP FLAVIA ROCHA   Wednesday, April 3 7:30 pm   Free admission Doors open at 7:00 pm; no late entry Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 info@passagesbookshop.com 503-388-7665 ============================================================== Upcoming Event at Passages April 7       Marathon reading: Keats Endymion & Boone Century of Clouds ============================================================== Chris Daniels is a self-taught, feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. Tom DeBeauchamp is a fiction writer living in Portland, Oregon. His work has been published in DIAGRAM, Full-Stop, Smokelong Quarterly, and other publications. He is currently working on a novel, The Not-Vampire, about country music, industrial design, various creatures of the night, love, and family drama. Flavia Rocha is the author of four books of poems…

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