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Poetry at the Heathman Library

The Heathman Hotel 1001 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening of poetry with William Brewer, author of I Know Your Kind, Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Series Poets Award, Hafizah Geter, poet, editor at Little A Books, and VP of the AWP Women’s Caucus, Edgar Kunz, author of the upcoming Tap Out, Paige Lewis, author of Space Struck, and Marcus Wicker, author of Silencer, NAACP finalist, at the one of a kind Heathman Hotel Library! Friday, March 29th, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Heathman Hotel, Mezzanine Library, 1001 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205. Contact: Jenny Xu

Free

AWP Offsite: Saturday at Crush Bar

Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us in Portland for a night of poetry and revelry, with readings by Nomi Stone, Kai Carlson-Wee, John James, Hafizah Geter, Aaron Coleman, Emily Barton Altman, Rob Schlegel, and Cassie Donish! Saturday, March 30 Crush Bar 6:00-7:30 PM NOMI STONE is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Kill Class is based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. KAI CARLSON-WEE is the author of Rail…

Free