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Free Range Poetry

Multnomah County Library 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

From Multnomah County Library's website: Open mic poetry readings the first 30 minutes, followed by Oregon poets reading from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Formerly Verse in Person, now curated by volunteers Diane Corson, John Miller and Dan Encarnacion. Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45 pm at the library. Northwest Meeting Room

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Winter Poetry Festival

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Warm your soul during the darkest days of winter at the first Winter Poetry Fest! We are crafting this event to be an inspirational refuge from the chaos of the holiday season. It will be full of diverse, local poets, chapbooks and broadsides for sale their authors; writing workshops and readings. In addition, there will be hands-on activities, writing games, a holiday card print-pull, cut-up poetry button making and more! Buy last minute holiday gifts for all your artsy friends while directly supporting writers, hide from your in-laws, feed your creativity with writing prompts and games, feed your mouth with delicious snacks, write a poem to put on the Poetry Tree and celebrate the solstice with your creative family <3. Hosted by the Independent Publishing…

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Free Range Poetry – Canceled

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

Open mic poetry readings the first 30 minutes, followed by Oregon poets reading from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Formerly Verse in Person, now curated by volunteers Diane Corson, John Miller and Dan Encarnacion. Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45 pm at the library.

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Free Range Poetry

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

Free Range Poetry presents 2019 Opening Night Smorgasbordal Open Mic Monday, February 4, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland No featured readers. Open mic readers limited to a single poem of no more than two pages of material. If there is time to spare, we’ll go around again starting from the top of the sign-up list. sign up begins 5:30 pm. readings begin 6:00 pm readings end 7:30 pm. Open mic poetry readings the first 30 minutes, followed by Oregon poets reading from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Formerly Verse in Person, now curated by volunteers Diane Corson, John Miller and Dan Encarnacion. Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45 pm at the…

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Free Range Poetry with dan raphael, Benjamin Schmitt, and Kelly Terwilliger

Multnomah County Library - Northwest Meeting Room 2300 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

Open mic poetry readings the first 30 minutes, followed by Oregon poets reading from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Formerly Verse in Person, now curated by volunteers Diane Corson, John Miller and Dan Encarnacion. Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45 pm at the library. From the Facebook event page: Free Range Poetry presents dan raphael, Benjamin Schmitt, Kelly Terwilliger *** SPECIAL DATE: second Monday of March*** Monday, March 11, 2019 Northwest Library 2300 NW Thurman Street Portland An open mic will precede featured poets. Open mic readers limited to two pages of material. Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm. Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. DAN RAPHAEL has been active on the…

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Tell Me A Story? #5

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Tell Me A Story? is back at our newish home at Rose City Book Pub for the fifth installment of our series! Please join us Sunday, June 30 from 7-9pm as we welcome work from Sylvia Rodemeyer, John Miller, Kevin Sampsell, Raveena Bhalara, and Matthew Dinaro. As always, this event is free of cost and hosted and curated by Jessica Wadleigh.

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First Friday with PoetryBox authors Joann Boswell, Rebecca Smolen, and John Miller

Birdhouse Books 1001 Main Street, Vancouver, WA, United States

Join us for the next installment of our First Friday Poetry series at Birdhouse Books! The Tiny Nest will be open this month to Joann Boswell, Rebecca Smolen, and John Miller of the Poetry Box, and they'll be bringing some fun, humorous, heartbreaking, and honest poetry to our reading room. Don't miss it! Show starts at 7pm.

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Kristin Berger, Cathy Cain, John Miller

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland area poets Kristin Berger, Cathy Cain, and John Miller for an in-store reading from their new collections, all published by local press The Poetry Box. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading.   About Earthwork: The poetry of Kristin Berger's Earthwork is centered around, sprung from, and located in the landscape of mothering during the increasingly mapless territory of climate change and the pandemic. These are poems that take careful care of the small wonders of childhood and parenthood against such large and looming realities; poems that never stray away from wide-eyed honesty, taking in grief, joy, memory, and the strangeness of…

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