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Whitenoise Project 19: Yen / Kaufka / Kim / Agcaoili / Perez

Tryst Bar 19 SW 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

For our first post-AWP Whitenoise Project event we are excited to announce a reading at Tryst, a WoC-owned bar and restaurant in Old Town! (also, our second ever reading on the west side and first in a while) We are also welcoming visiting poet and professor Jason Magabo Perez, who brings his first full-length collection, This is for the Mostless. https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2018/03/apertures-wishes-and-questions Featuring: Jessica Yen Beth Haworth-Kaufka Hannah Kim Ie Agcaoili Jason Magabo Perez ADA Accessible and All Ages! $5-10 suggested donation to help support the artists No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The Whitenoise Project is a reading and discussion series aiming to center voices from underrepresented / erased communities (Black and Indigenous people and/or PoC, Women and Femmes of Color,…

$5 – $10

Asian & Pacific Islander Mic (presented by the Bigfoot Regional)

Multnomah County Library - Central Library 801 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, in partnership with the Multnomah County Library, presents a poetry open mic for poets of Asian and Pacific Islander decent to come share their experiences. All are welcome to come watch. Event hosted by Hannah Kim. This event is free and open to the public as part of the Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, a two-day poetry festival and competition happening in Downtown Portland.

Free

Delve Fall 2019: We Are All For Sale: Capitalism and Consumerism

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

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” – Ursula K. Le Guin We’ll be looking at “the art of words” in four very different works to examine capitalism and consumerism in our society. We’ll start with Severance, a satirical, post apocalyptic, immigrant novel set in New York with roots in China. We’ll continue our journey abroad through Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy’s masterful examination of how globalized capitalism has affected India. We’ll trace the intersection of capitalism and feminism through the co-editor of Bitch Media’s book, We Were…

$220