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Portland Lit Crawl: An Evening of Environmental Unknowns

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Portland Review and The Accomplices (Entropy, Civil Coping Mechanisms, and Writ Large Press) join Lit Crawl Portland to co-host Unchartable: An Evening of Environmental Unknowns. It is the nature of the human mind to seek, to touch, to understand and occupy vast unknowable terrains, but which of our daily environments resist comprehension? Our readers will present unknowable psychological landscapes, confounding emotional habitats, the shapeless environs of both speculation and perception, those territories where mind and body, physical and psychological, human and nonhuman, meet and cohabitate without reconciliation. Our readers for the evening are Samiya Bashir, M. Allen Cunningham, Anne-Marie Kinney, and Janice Lee. Samiya Bashir's books of poetry: Where the Apple Falls, Gospel, and Field Theories, winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Award, and anthologies,…

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Richard Chiem in Conversation With Janice Lee

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

From one of the most exciting and risk-taking new literary voices, Richard Chiem’s debut novel King of Joy (Soft Skull) is the triumphant, electrifying story of one woman’s quest for survival against all odds, told in the author’s inimitable prose style – equal parts sledgehammer and sweet song. Chiem will be joined in conversation by Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn’t Blue.

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Corporeal Writing Workshop – Memory Space with Janice Lee: April 13-14

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

Memory Space: On Inherited Trauma & the Failure of Language Workshop Leader: Janice Lee When:  4/13/19: 1:00 - 4:00 4/14/19: 1:00 - 4:00 Where: The Corporeal Center; 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97210 Cost: $225 Click here to Apply for Scholarship “What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” - William James 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 be affected? How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief? We will explore…

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