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AWP 32 Poems / AGNI / Gulf Coast / Pleiades / Quarterly West

The Slide Inn 2342 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United States

Calling all AWP Portland attendees! Join 32 Poems Magazine, AGNI, Gulf Coast Journal, Pleiades and Quarterly West at The Slide Inn (2348 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214) Thursday 3/28 from 7-10 pm for readings by many talented contributors to our journals. Food and drink will be provided free of charge. We look forward to seeing you there! Readers will include: 32 Poems: Malachi Black, Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, Randall Mann, and Marcus Wicker AGNI: William Archila, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Edgar Kunz, Natalie Shapero, and Maggie Smith Gulf Coast: Gabrielle Bates, Tiana Clark, Amorak Huey, Diane Seuss, and Justin Wymer Pleiades: Destiny Birdsong, F Douglas Brown, Tyler Mills, Susannah Nevison, and David Welch Quarterly West: Kaveh Akbar, Dorothy Chan, Brandon Courtney Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Carlos Price-Sanchez

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Gabrielle Bates in Conversation With Luther Hughes

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection, Judas Goat (Tin House), plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book’s eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the “forbidden felt language” of sexual and sacred love. Bates’s poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shape-shifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home. In confession,…

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