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Joel Bettridge, Tom Fisher, & Jamondria Marnice Harris

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

From Spare Room's website: $5 suggested donation; no one turned away Jamondria Harris is a poet & multimedia artist living in Portland, OR. They use words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, spirit/source, decolonization, fairy tales, femme supremacy, & body horror. They are a VONA Workshop Fellow and an artist-in-residence at S1 Gallery, among other things. Their book of poetry and art, quaerere, is available from Magic Helicopter Press and their music can be found at meroitic.bandcamp.com . Tom Fisher is the author of Convivium (Publication Studio), Writing Not Writing (University of Iowa Press), and Sorsere (The Cultural Society). He lives in Portland and teaches at Portland State. Joel Bettridge is the author of three books of poetry, That Abrupt Here…

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Spare Room reading: Gabriel Urza, Joel Bettridge

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

$5 suggested donation for the readers (no one turned away for lack of funds) *** Gabriel Urza is the author of the novel All That Followed (Henry Holt & Co.) and the novella The White Death: An Illusion. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, The Guardian, LitHub, and other publications. He teaches Creative Writing in the MFA program at Portland State University. Joel Bettridge is the author of four books of poetry, Ligatures (Dos Madres 2019), The Public Life of Chemistry (The Cultural Society 2007), Presocratic Blues (Chax 2009), and That Abrupt Here (The Cultural Society 2007), as well as two critical studies, Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics (Routledge 2018) and Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith (Palgrave 2009). He co-edited Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (The National Poetry Foundation 2008). He is Professor of English…

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A Marathon Reading of Ronald Johnson’s ARK

Chris Ashby's Apartment 615 SE 18th Avenue, Apt. 1 (not A), Portland, OR, United States

Each winter, the Spare Room reading series hosts a marathon reading of a long work. In 2020 we’ll be reading Ronald Johnson’s long poem ARK, which was written over about 25 years and published in sections between 1980 and 1996 (and reprinted in 2013 by Flood Editions). Guy Davenport wrote: "ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them." Free.…

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