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Indies First/Small Business Saturday

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

It's Indies First Day AND Small Business Saturday, and we are going to have so much fun!! We have more than a dozen local authors joining us. You'll be able to talk to them about their books and purchase signed or personalized books, as well as hear about what books they're particularly excited about giving and getting this holiday season. Here are some of the great authors who will be joining us on Saturday. It's possible more might pop in -- we are blessed with a richness of wonderful writing talent in our city. We appreciate them taking the time to hang out with us and with you! Stevan Allred (12 to 2): Author of the just-published novel The Alehouse at the End of the…

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Free

An Evening with The Sun

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

Publishing The Sun each month doesn’t leave much time for us to meet readers. That’s why we’re looking forward to a special event on Friday, March 29, at the Alberta Rose Theatre. Sy Safransky, editor and founder of The Sun, and contributors John Brehm, Krista Bremer, David James Duncan, and Brenda Peynado will be reading their work and signing books. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there. Contact: Molly House

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Mountain Writers Workshop: Reading as a Writer: A.R. Ammons

Multnomah Friends Meeting House 4312 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR, United States

In this six-week workshop, we'll take a deep dive into the work of A.R. Ammons, one of America's most inventive and prolific poets. From short poems to book-length poems and everything in between, Ammons engages the human predicament with a rare mixture of irreverent humor and philosophical depth. We'll pay special attention to the influence of Taoist thought on Ammons' poetics. But our main concern will be with how the poems are made and how they might open new possibilities for our own work. Two of our six sessions will be devoted to participatnt poems. Our texts will be The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems, and Garbage. Meets: Tuesdays, 6:00 - 9:00 PM, October 29 to December 3, 2019. Cost:  $300 (Six three-hour…

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$300

The Art of Losing: A Poetry Workshop via Zoom

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Whether it’s the death of a parent, a spouse, a friend, a pet, or a relationship, we are faced with loss again and again in our lives. And now with the pandemic and the climate crisis bearing down on us, we are increasingly aware of just how vulnerable we are as individuals, as a country, and as a species. In this six-week online poetry workshop, we’ll explore the art of losing, how we can work with loss in the healing space of a poem to find comfort and consolation, perhaps even redemption and a renewed sense of aliveness in the aftermath of grief. We’ll read and discuss poems by W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, Jack Gilbert, Seamus Heaney, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Amy Gerstler,…

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$300

John Brehm in Conversation with Heather Sellers

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Broadway Books is pleased to host a virtual event with author John Brehm discussing his most recent book, The Dharma of Poetry, with Heather Sellers. In The Dharma of Poetry, Brehm shows how poems can be a source of wisdom and an entry into spiritual practice and how poems can open up new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world that anyone engaged in spiritual practice--or wishing to live a more mindful life--might want to emulate. This collection of lively, elegantly written essays offers in-depth explorations of twenty poems. It also offers poetry-related meditations and writing prompts that invite readers to directly engage with the poems and ideas discussed in the book and expand their own practice of poetry. A stand-alone book, it…

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Livestream Reading: John Brehm

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author John Brehm for a livestream reading form his new book, The Dharma of Poetry. Registere here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqceqspj0vEtSNjgRf5vpVteKgDkvF7vUe About The Dharma of Poetry: Discover how to engage with poetry to support your spiritual practice, leading to more mindfulness, equanimity, and joy. In The Dharma of Poetry, John Brehm shows how poems can open up new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world. Brehm demonstrates the practice of mindfully entering a poem, with an alertness, curiosity, and open-hearted responsiveness very much like the attention we cultivate in meditation. Complete with poetry-related meditations and writing prompts, this collection of lively, elegantly written essays can be read as a standalone book, or as a companion to the author’s acclaimed anthology, The Poetry…

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