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The Hour That Stretches: Season Of The Witch, 2019

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Wonderland Award-winning Bizarro/Noir/Horror author Garrett Cook. Hour newcomer and serious poet Meghan Bell. And from the unholy bowels of the upcoming H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival's roster and guest list: Poet, scholar and humorist Dan Clore. Cosmic Horror author and Hour newcomer Jason Squamata. And...me, with a new commission piece spawned by a former WEIRD TALES editor. The Hour is now quarterly, so Halloween comes a month early. Come get scared. We're good at it. FORD FOOD AND DRINK. 2505 SE 11TH AVE. SUN. SEPT 29. 7-9:40 PM. FREE BY DONATION. NOMINALLY ALL-AGES.

Free

Cult of Orpheus / Rose City Art Song Project

Valentine's 232 SW Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United States

Readings 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…

Free

HYPNOZINE Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A release party for us all to slip into the HYPNO-verse. HYPNOZINE: THE BIRTH OF HYPNO is an illustrated psychedelic science fiction novel that ebbs and flows between narrative and poetry written by Jason Squamata, with illustrations and design by Andrew Mc Kenzie. It’s a mythology from a weird future that shifts and shimmers on the other side of our chaos. A book-shaped game that kisses the eye and says “play.”

Free