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Marathon reading of Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day is an "epic poem about a daily routine" (Alice Notley) written in a single day on the winter solstice in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts. On the 40th anniversary of its composition, we'll read the whole book aloud. Listeners are welcome to come and go at will, or stay for the full reading which should take about three hours. Similar events are scheduled around the country on the same day; for a full listing see Becca Klaver's Midwinter Day at 40 page. The readers (in approximate order of appearance) are David Abel, Sam Lohmann, Jen Coleman, Linda Austin, John Beer, Marilyn Stablein, Laura Feldman, Tom DeBeauchamp, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Jesse Morse, Jen Denrow, Bronwen Tate, Emily Kendal Frey, Rodney Koeneke, Seann McCollum,…

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Jac Nelson & Deborah Woodard

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Jac Nelson is a multimedia poet living between the ancestral lands of the Nisqually people and of the Očeti Šakówiŋ. Their work begins with art and artist as ethical questions that emerge from inherited context: ancestry, language, land, trauma, coercion, and decision activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Jac continues to learn about, engage with, and resist the ways they benefit from white supremacy originating in genocide, slavery, and other violences. Recent work was shown at Gay City in Seattle Wa, published by Black Warrior Review and Fanzine, and is forthcoming in Old Pal and soft surface. Deborah Woodard is the author of Plato's Bad Horse (Bear Star, 2006), Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats, 2012) and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911 (Ravenna Press,…

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Old Pal Issue 2 Reading

Private Residence - Email for Address 0 SE Nonexistant Ln, Portland, OR, United States

Three contributors to Old Pal, Jac Nelson, Rose Swartz, and Jenessa Vanzutphen, read from their work across genres at a friendly, private residence. All are welcome to join! Please email editors@oldpalmag.com for the address. You can find our readers' work in Issue 2 of Old Pal and / or learn more about them below. JAC NELSON is a multimedia poet living between the ancestral lands of the Nisqually people (at Puget Sound) and of the Očeti Šakówiŋ (at the Minnesota River). Their work begins with art and artist as ethical questions that emerge from inherited context: ancestry, language, land, trauma, coercion, and decision activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Jac continues to learn about, engage with, and resist the ways they benefit…

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Five Old Pals: Ed Skoog, John Beer, Jac Nelson, Ryan Mills & Alex Dannemiller

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Old Pal editor Karolinn Fiscaletti hosts five readers on Saturday, February 13th from 6:30 to 8:00 PST. Register in advance at tinyurl.com/5hsdo61j Ed Skoog is the author of four books of poems, most recently Travelers Leaving for the City (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium Books, 2010), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, a chapbook, Lucinda (Spork Press, 2013), and the full-length verse novella of Lucinda, published by Canarium Books in 2016. He is also the editor of a selection of Robert Lax's poems, published by Wave Books in 2013. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Jac Nelson is a multimedia poet living between the lands of…

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