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Featherless Series

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

Tonight at Mother Foucault's! Readings from Joe Milazzo, author of Crepuscule with Nellie and two poetry collections; Andrea Lambert, author of Jet Set Desolate and mistress of the trauma porn personal essay; Tiffany Promise, celebrated slam poet, author of Broken and many chapbooks; Alana Saltz, editor of Blanket Sea and Disability activist with writing in the Huffington Post, Bustle, and elsewhere. This reading is in memorial of Katie Jacobson who ran featherless: a reading series with her domestic partner Andrea Lambert from 2010 to 2012. Please come hear our screams, cries, and words!

Free

Night Sky Reading – Poems by Joanna Klink

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for a special reading to celebrate the release of Joanna Klink's new book of poetry, The Nightfields. For the link to access the event, register here. To celebrate the release of The Nightfields, 31 poets and writers will read from "Night Sky," the sequence of short poems that ends the book. Participating writers include: Leni Zumas, Mary Szybist, Rob Schlegel, Spencer Reece, Dana Prescott, D.A. Powell, Cecily Parks, Sameer Pandya, Shelly Oria, Lisa Olstein, Malena Mörling, Honor Moore, Joe Milazzo, Nathan McClain, Lynn Melnick, Youna Kwak, Joanna Klink, Anna Maria Hong, Brenda Hillman, Nick Gulig, Sarah Gridley, Michele Glazer, Annelyse Gelman, Forrest Gander, Amanda Fortini, Shangyang Fang, Timothy Donnelly, John D’Agata, John Beer, David Baker, and Stephanie Adams-Santos. The New York Journal of Books says of The Nightfields: “Klink is…

Free