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Platypus Press Presents: On Being & Place

Tea Chai Té - North West 734 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Where is home? Where do we belong? All the questions we strive to answer for ourselves. Join four Platypus Press authors—each with their own unique narratives—as they read work that confronts, questions and seeks an understanding of heritage, memories, and our own bodies, an attempt to knit together a portrait of who we are and where we’re from. Please note: this venue (on NW 23rd) is on the second floor and unfortunately not accessible to all at this time. — Mary Kovaleski Byrnes is the author of So Long the Sky (Platypus Press, 2018). She teaches writing and literature at Emerson College, and is the co-founder of the emersonWRITES program. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Salamander, the Boston Globe, Best of the Net, PANK,…

Free

Writing with our Ancestors, with Chelsea Hicks

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A four-week generative online writing lab. WHEN: Begins Friday, September 10th, 2021. This class is hosted on our rich interactive online platform, WetInk. The class is broken into four weeks, and within those weeks you go at your own pace. In addition, Chelsea will host five weekly Zoom session on Fridays from 4-5pm PST. The final Zoom session will be a group reading/celebration. (Zoom dates: 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8) ACCESS: While able to be purchased directly from this site at our standard rate of $350, this offering is available at a sliding scale rate to anyone who inquires. Please reach out to Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com. Payment plans are also available. In Chiapas and Oaxaca, writers center Indigenous literature with translation across languages,…

$350