A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Join us for poems from Olivia Olivia, Colin Keating, Julia Laxer, Robert Torres, and Isabel Zacharias! 21 February at 8pm at Rose City Book Pub! 💘💕💖🌟🔥🐬
Join us for an engaging evening about using comics for education and activism! We’ll be joined by local author, artist, and zinester Sarah Mirk and the comic artist who created the Ask Me About Cost of Production comic, Jim “Kett” Kettner. Sarah will present on using comics for educational and activist purposes and will be followed by a live reading of the Ask Me About Cost of Production by authors Mike and Caryn Nelson, and artist Kett. Both presenters will have their own creations available for purchase. The event is free to attend and no registration is required but donations are welcome! This is an all ages event. Happy hour will be available throughout the event.
Come celebrate the release of Carol Ellis's new chapbook, HELLO, published by Two Plum Press. Other readers include: Jenna Marie Fletcher Amie Zimmerman Nathan Wade Carter
Join PageBoy Magazine for happy hour at Rose City Book Pub! We'll have over seventeen glorious readers reading seventeen-word poems from our latest issue devoted entirely to that form. "Simply the newest and most exciting literary form in recent memory! We unapologetically give it 17 honks!" –The Harpo Marx Review of Brevity. Full list of performers at the PageBoy Magazine blog! Contact: Thomas Walton PageBoy Magazine will host a constraint based, offsite event as part of AWP. A happy hour event from 4:30-6 at Rose City Book Pub on Friday 3/29. The event will be devoted to the poetic form the Seventeen - essentially a seventeen word poem or prose work. Seventeen writers will read work in this form, two heavy metal thrashers - aka…
Grab a pint and listen in on dispatches from the Great Lakes and the Big Ice, important stories of environmental justice, history, and activism. Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Metropolitan Books, will be reading alongside fellow Warren Wilson MFA alumni Justin Gardiner, author of Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic by the University of Georgia Press. Contact: Justin Gardiner
Heavy Feather Review, BOAAT, Astrophil Press, Futurepoem, & FENCE Present A.W.P., an offsite reading featuring: Tess Brown-Lavoie, Leland Cheuk, Matthew Cooperman, Meg Freitag, Edgar Garcia, Janalyn Guo, Brionne Janae, Aby Kaupaung, Jerika Marchan, Alicia Pirmohamed, Jordan A. Rothacker, Ellen Welcker, Erika T. Wurth at Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont St. Portland, OR 97212 Saturday, March 30th, 2019 from 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching. A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the hidden human cost. Read the article here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wide-fund-nature-parks-torture-death ____________________________________________ Join the Longreads Club where we discuss a long-form article focused on global topics. No membership or registration required. Just read the article, show up, and join the discussion!
Marty McConnell reads from her latest poetry collection, "when they say you can't go home again, what they mean is you were never there," joined by special guests Beth Marquez and Jenna Marie Fletcher! Praise for the book: If future generations want to know what it meant to live in the belly of the beast at this moment in history, they would do well to read the poems of Marty McConnell. These are poems that bear witness and much more: they explore a remarkable range of human experiences and emotional registers. There is fiery condemnation of injustice and jubilant praise of everyday pleasures; there are voices from the margins and voices of privilege that burn with searing honesty; there is fragmented language that mirrors the…
The Stoner Babes Reading celebrates empowerment. Join us as we listen to bad ass, gorgeous, intelligent, motivated and talented humans share their stories! The Rose City Book Pub has delicious food and drink. This is also a coloring party, so we can all color while we listen to these wonderful readers! The incredible readers are: Domi Shoemaker Nastashia Minto Mary Mandeville Anya Pearson Beth Cartino Valarie Rae Leah Baer Jewels Bring your friends, sisters, lovers and mothers.