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.:LOOP:. Reading and Performance by Corporeal Writing Mammals

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Please come witness Corporeal Writing participants read along with me and Lidia Yuknavitch at Corporeal Center on Sat, 4/20 from 5-8pm. You can find us at 510 SW 3rd Ave Suite 101, in the old Postal building just across the Morison bridge and in the same bldg as Killler Burger. We don’t call our comrades students because that top down jam just isn’t how we roll. Just so you know, no one will be turned away for inability to pay at the door, but we are asking you to consider $5 or so, so we can keep offering a space for anyone to write for free on Tues-Fri, 12-6pm. Love .:LOOP:. Domi Our phenomenal readers/performers are: Dot Hearn Pamela K. Santos Annie Gudger Jewels Bethann…

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Free – $5

This Will Destroy You – Pedram Navab and Janice Lee

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

Come to the shop on Friday, May 31 at 7 pm to celebrate the launch of This Will Destroy You, a new novel by Pedram Navab. With special guest Janice Lee.  Pedram Navab is a neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine who currently resides in Los Angeles. Educated at Brown and Stanford, he holds both a graduate degree in English/Modern Culture and Media and a JD. His debut novel, Without Anesthesia, was published in 2015 (Jaded Ibis). In his spare time, he acts and makes short films. Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take, slowness, interspecies communication, the apocalypse, and asks…

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Brandon Shimoda in Conversation With Janice Lee

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life — child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen — mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the 20th century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather, and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting. The Grave on the Wall (City Lights) is a memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s lifelong struggle. Shimoda will be joined in conversation by Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn’t Blue.

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Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories -- A Quarterly Reading Series We welcome feminist readers from across the gender spectrum and from every intersection sharing their written work in narrative tapestry. We hope to be antidepressant, hope-peddling, boundary-breaking, multicultural, and oriented towards action. Our October reading theme is The Mother Wound. Doors at 6:30pm. Our readers will be: Jewels Pedersen, Janice Lee, Foster, Valarie Rea, Leah Baer, Marissa Korbel, Mira Glasser, Magdalen Powers, Adam Swanson, and Gloria Harrison Hosted by G. Ravyn Stanfield and Marissa Korbel

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Why There Are Words: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1665 SE Bybee Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join Why There Are Words – Portland (WTAW-PDX) for “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” November 17, from 4 to 6 pm at the Corkscrew Wine Bar. We’ll have an amazing afternoon with the following featured authors. Karen Bridges has a BA in Anthropology from University of Oregon and an MA in English and Creative Writing from Sonoma State University. Her flash fiction has appeared in Esthetic Apostle and Everyday Fiction, and her nonfiction essays on Virginia Woolf are published on the Faithless Feminist. She is currently working on a collection of short stories as well as a creative non-fiction hybrid project titled Unsettled. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Martha Conway‘s latest novel, The Underground River (Touchstone) was a New York Times Book Review…

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Submission Deadline: Submission Reading Series: BIPOC Writers

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Presenting “Submission by and for BIPOC": Submission Reading Series is run by blind online submission based out of Portland, OR. We will be open to poetry/prose submissions from BIPOC writers from January 1st - January 29th. As always, submissions are free, and writers may submit once in each genre. For this upcoming reading, BIPOC-identifying authors Janice Lee (prose) and Skyler Reed (poetry) will serve as guest editors and choose the winning readers. Thanks to a generous grant by Regional Arts & Culture Council, the winning submitters in each genre will receive $100 and an opportunity to read their work alongside the guest editors on Saturday, Feb. 22nd in Portland, OR. Extended submission guidelines: https://submissionpdx.submittable.com/submit Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions — our…

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Submission: BIPOC Edition

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon - APANO 8188 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

Thanks to a generous grant by Regional Arts & Culture Council, Submission Reading Series is able to present "Submission: BIPOC Edition." This reading features our two guest editors of color, Janice Lee (fiction) and Skyler Reed (poetry), as well as the winners of our BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color-only) open reading period, Juan Reyes (fiction) and Zaji Cox (poetry). This reading is free and open to the public. Light snacks and bubbly water will be served. Doors - 5:00pm Reading - 5:30pm sharp Chat - 7ish-8pm _ _ _ Zaji Cox has been creating stories since she started reading at age three, discovering her passion for writing when she wrote her first short story at nine years old. She began seriously considering it…

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Visiting Writers Series: Janice Lee

Reed College - Eliot Hall Chapel 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR, United States

Janice Lee is a Korean-American writer, artist, and editor. She writes about the filmic long take, slowness, interspecies communication, plants & personhood, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, inherited trauma, and the concept of han in Korean culture, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), a multidisciplinary exploration of cyborgs, brains, and the stakes of consciousness, Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), an experimental novel, Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), a book-length meditation and ekphrasis on the films of Hungarian director Béla Tarr, Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), a lyrical essay reflecting on the death of Lee’s mother, and most recently, The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), a collection of travel essays inspired…

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Webinar: The Antifascist Artist

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Antifascist Artist: How can writers fight against right-wing extremism in the United States? In recent years right-wing extremist groups have specifically targeted Portland as a place to rally, recruit, and radicalize. How do communities fight back against hate on the local, national, and global level? And what role can art—in particular the written and spoken word—play in that fight? Portland authors Cari Luna, Maryam Gabriel-Imam, Janice Lee, Sophia Shalmiyev, and Leni Zumas will read from their work and then tackle this question in a panel discussion. This event is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, through a project grant in support of Cari Luna’s ongoing research and writing about fascism. Click on this link to register in advance for this…

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Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

4-Week Online Workshop starting July 12th, 2020 “What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James “How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to…

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