LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Literary Bingo

The Big Legrowlski 812 NW Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Join Why There Are Words PDX for some literary bingo madness with an all-star lineup of Portland writers. Who will read a flashback? A sonnet? The word “panty”? Mark your cards and claim your prizes! Our bingolicious readers: Brian Benson (Going Somewhere), Kate Carroll de Gutes (Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear), Elyse Fenton (Sweet Insurgent), Shauna Hannibal (Hannibal), Jaqueline Keeler (Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Occupation, Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Lands), Ramiza Koya (The Royal Abduls), Margaret Malone (People Like You), Jennifer Perrine (No Confession, No Mass), and Sara Rivara (Animal Bride).

Free

WTAW PDX Popup Reading at #PDXBookFest

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

A popup reading from three gorgeous and talented Why There Are Words PDX alums: Jennifer Perrine (No Confession, No Mass), Margaret Malone (People Like You), and Brian Benson (Going Somewhere), at #PDXBookFest https://literary-arts.org/event/pop-up-why-there-are-words-pdx/ Local authors Brian Benson, Margaret Malone, and Jennifer Perrine join forces for a pop-up reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries. This pop-up is presented in collaboration with Why There Are Words PDX. This group is paired with Mount Hood by Albert Bierstadt; found in the American Art on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map to find this location.

$15 – $20

Northwest Academy: Erin Hoover and Jennifer Perrine

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

A reading with Erin Hoover and Jennifer Perrine Erin Hoover’s debut poetry collection, Barnburner, was selected by Kathryn Nuernberger as winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award and published by Elixir Press in 2018.  Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Pleiades. Hoover has served as past editor of the Southeast Review, volunteer for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and co-founder of the literary organization Late Night Library. She earned a Ph.D. from Florida State University and now lives in Tallahassee, where she teaches writing.Erin appears as part of the Northwest Academy Visiting Writers Series. Jennifer Perrine is the author of three books of poetry: No Confession, No Mass (2015), In the Human Zoo (2011), and The Body Is No Machine (2007).…

Free

Kate Garklavs’s Chapbook Release

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Submission's Prose Editor Kate Garklavs crosses genre lines with Diffusely Yours, a new poetry chapbook published by Bottlecap Press. Join Kate, Nathan Wade Carter, and Jennifer Perrine for a night of poetry & prose at Dorsa Brevia. This event is free & open to the public. Light snacks provided. Chaps/books will be available from all authors via cash, Square, or Venmo. _ _ _ Kate Garklavs lives and works in Portland, OR. Her work has appeared in Juked, NOO Journal, Tammy, and The Airgonaut, among other places. Her first chapbook (“Diffusely Yours”) was published by Bottlecap Press in August 2018. When she’s not working on her own personal writing, Kate works for a consultancy that advises nonprofits and government agencies on user-centered technology and design.…

Free