Spare Room Reading Series I
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesFeaturing: Peter Jaeger, Tim Atkins, Rob Schlegel, Norma Cole, James Yeary
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Cult of Orpheus / Rose City Art Song Project
Valentine's 232 SW Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United StatesReadings by poets collaborating on the Rose City Arts Songs Project (Phase 3, Valentine's). It's a great variety, from the lyrical symbolist imagism of Coleman Stevenson to the surreal invocations of Jason Squamata. Cult of Orpheus presents the Rose City Art Song project, featuring works of Portland poets set to music. On the eve of Portland Book Festival and the night of LitCrawl! Join us at 7 pm for poetry readings by Mo McFeely, Jason Squamata, Coleman Stevenson and James Yeary. At 8 pm, Cult of Orpheus presents musical performances of eight poems, two from each poet. Our featured vocalists are tenor Eric Asakawa, soprano Jocelyn Claire Thomas, baritone Dan Gibbs, and mezzo-soprano Sadie Gregg. Music composed by Christopher Corbell, with music direction by Erica…
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“The Magnificent Field” reading: Poetry by Phoebe Wayne, James Yeary, & Sam Lohmann
1122 Gallery 1122 SE 88th Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesPart of 1122's Second Annual Holiday Makers Pop Up A launch celebration for Sam Lohmann's new chapbook In a Saint's Ashtray from Jen Tynes' Magnificent Field press, with three local Magnificent Field authors. About the readers: Phoebe Wayne’s most recent chapbook, Transit, was published by Magnificent Field in the summer of 2019. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, in a house situated between two maples, a hawthorn, a plum tree, and a dogwood. James Yeary is interested in the mitigation of personality for the sake of Martian influence. The new my day is cut and ready to be pasted. His most recent chapbook is Hawai’i (violaceous euphoRia, 2019). Sam Lohmann is a librarian and poet in Vancouver, Washington. His small prose book called In a Saint's Ashtray is just out from The…
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Spare Room reading: James Yeary & Lisa Radon
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesJames Yeary and Lisa Radon will read from their new books, Hawai'i and Age of Sand. "Hawai'i" is a survey of the emotional topography of the outer solar system. Different sources (all imagined) culture (microbiologically) its dreaming cartographer. Accompanying "Hawai'i," a serial poem called "Lucien" watches the self-mythologizing of an old galaxy that out of loneliness has started talking to itself. Hawai’i by James Yeary ciel o canth (Alderich Mime, Lake Vostok), 2020. Cover by Sam Lohmann. 52 pages, hand-sewn in an edition of 220. AGE OF SAND is a book of log entries that imagines impossible interconnectivities, rewritings and rewrightings of the digital and the analog, the past and the future through a cyberfeminist lens. What are the qualities of the permeable membrane between…
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A Marathon Reading of Ronald Johnson’s ARK
Chris Ashby's Apartment 615 SE 18th Avenue, Apt. 1 (not A), Portland, OR, United StatesEach winter, the Spare Room reading series hosts a marathon reading of a long work. In 2020 we’ll be reading Ronald Johnson’s long poem ARK, which was written over about 25 years and published in sections between 1980 and 1996 (and reprinted in 2013 by Flood Editions). Guy Davenport wrote: "ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them." Free.…
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Oxeye Reader Portland launch reading
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesSpare Room presents a launch reading for Oxeye Reader Issue 1: Portland, OR Sunday, September 27, at 7:00 PM Pacific Time, via Zoom (link TBA on , or DM Sam Lohmann) Featuring: David Abel Chris Ashby Jen Coleman Tom Fisher Jamondria Harris Endi Bogue Hartigan Lorraine Lupo & Paul Maziar Thomas Mowe Phoebe Wayne James Yeary Hosted by Jordan Dunn (publisher) and Sam Lohmann (guest editor) Oxeye Reader (Oxeye Press, Ames IA) is a new print journal published by Jordan Dunn. Each issue focuses on a different place, and issue 1 is Portland.
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Poets’ Benefit for PWNW—The dance moves on and prose limps hopelessly behind.
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesSpare Room and Passages Bookshop present a virtual reading & performance to benefit Performance Works Northwest Celebrating 20 years of Portland's most inspiring independent movement and performance venue, Performance Works NW (and 19 years of Spare Room), past and present members of the Spare Room reading series collective will come together from diverse locations to read and perform poems and things. Mark Owens, Maryrose Larkin, Laura Feldman, Chris Piuma, David Abel, Joseph Bradshaw, Sam Lohmann, Endi Hartigan, James Yeary, Jen Coleman, Chris Ashby Organized by David Abel of Passages Bookshop Pay what you will. Suggested $8-$25 If you need a free ticket email us at info@pwnw-pdx.org. ZOOM LINK TO THE EVENT WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU
Free – $25
Passages Bookshop Open House and Reading/Performance: James Year, David Abel, Mark Owens
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesPassages Bookshop Reopens on April 2 Please join us at an open house on the evening of April 2, with readings & performances by James Yeary, David Abel & Mark Owens. The occasion will also serve as a book launch for continue us, a book of poems designed for your home, neighborhood, and playmates by Marko Whens, with linotype composition and printing by Brian Scott Bagdonas. video of Marko performing at Passages in 2015 Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and remain open until just before the performance begins at 8:00 pm; they will be open again after the performance, at roughly 9:00 pm. Proof of vaccination required for admission, and face coverings required for all. (Readers will be unmasked while performing.) Saturday, April 2,…
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Spare Room Annual Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein & Jackson Mac Low
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesSpare Room and Passages Bookshop present a marathon reading IDA by Gertrude Stein Pieces o’ Six by Jackson Mac Low Sunday, April 30 12:00 pm until finish (probably around 8:00-8:30 pm) Admission free Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The Spare Room Reading Series hosts an annual marathon reading, in which local writers, artists, and friends read aloud one or more booklength texts. This year's marathon features Gertrude Stein's short novel Ida (1945) and Jackson Mac Low's thirty-three "poems in prose"…
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Marathon reading: Keats & Boone
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesSpare Room Reading Series presents our annual marathon reading: Endymion by John Keats & Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone Sunday, April 7, 2024 10:00 am until we finish (probably around 6:00-7:00 pm) Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur St., Suite 660, Portland Free admission; come and go as you please Readers include: David Abel, Chris Ashby, Chris Daniels, Laura Feldman, Rodney Koeneke, Sam Lohmann, Seann McCollum, Joe Safdie, Andrew Simon, & James Yeary. ============================================================== Also Upcoming at Passages April 3 Reading by Chris Daniels. Tom De Beauchamp, & Flavia Rocha ==============================================================
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