LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Bone Tax Poem Club February Edition

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

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! 💘💕💖🌟🔥🐬

Free

Michelle Michelle: Readings & Performances

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Join Michelle Overby on Thursday, March 7 at 7 pm for an evening of readings and performances with local artists and writers Eva Bertoglio, Julia Wohlstetter, Ross Robbins, Hajara Quinn, Kara McMullen, Isabel Zacharias, Delphine Bedient, Sarah Brahim, and Chris Maday. Michelle is a wife, mother, poet, stenographer, and radical lady. She has published two books of haiku with Two Plum Press of Portland, Oregon. She’s anxiously working on a third book of poetry for Two Plum due out sometime in 2019.

Free

5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Cardinal Club Presents: ~5x5~ 9/19/19 7 pm with new work by: Nathan Wade Carter Spencer Pond Isabel Zacharias Sarah Cutsforth Shloimy Notik this thursday! 7pm! come out for the newest edition of 5x5, with work by @purrbot @____iz__ @shloimynotik @milhouse_rules @sarahjanecuts

Free

Small Press Residency – Perfect Day Publishing

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Rocking Frog Cafe & NovaPDX present our Small Press Residency program starting this October. Every month, meet the people from local small press publishers involved in making great books. During the residency you can purchase the featured press’ books at Rocking Frog Cafe and meet the people behind them. This month our featured press is Perfect Day Publishing (www.perfectdaybooks.com). Join us on Wednesday, October 30th with our guests Martha Grover, Isabel Zacharias & Skyler Norwood. ~ Martha Grover Martha Grover is an author, poet, and artist living in Corbett, Oregon. She is the author of One More for the People (Perfect Day Publishing) and The End of My Career (Perfect Day Publishing). The End of My Career was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards…

Free

Have You Ever Heard a Poem

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

RSVP here Please join us for a night of readings from poets Leah Noble Davidson Chris Maday Isabel Zacharias and Keaton King The IPRC asks that community members abide by our Covid-Safer Guidelines: Masks & Proof of Vaccination + Booster required except in instances of medical exemption (reach out to info@iprc.org with questions re: medical exemption).

Free