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Chao & Boykoff + Wahnetah 12/1 @ Project Object

Project Object 2502 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Switch No. 49: Geneva Chao and Jules Boykoff, with art by Jules and Jessi Wahnetah Where: Project Object, 2502 NE Sandy Blvd. When: Saturday, December 1, 3 p.m. We are super excited to have this event at Project Object, which supports women, LGBTQ and POC artists and designers. In addition to our readers, the event will feature beautiful wooden box lamps/mirrors picturing activist heroes, handmade by Jules and Jessi Wahnetah plus Project Object's incredible store collection of art and artifacts--just in time for local holiday shopping. Genève/Geneva Chao is the author of three books of poetry (one of us is wave one of us is shore, a bilingual discours amoureux; Hillary Is Dreaming, a dream journal of the 2016 election; and émigré, a history of…

Free

Kelsey Street AWP Reading

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

JOIN KELSEY STREET, CHAX, EOAGH, TINFISH, BLACK RADISH AND POG in Portland at Passages Books. Featured Kelsey Street readers are Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam, Anna Morrison, Mg Roberts and Hazel White The full lineup for the reading is: 6:00–7:15 pm Charles Alexander, Robert Mittenthal, David Abel, Kit Robinson, Sarah Rosenthal, Trace Peterson, Max Wolf Valerio, Susan M. Schultz, Tim Dyke, Jordan Scott, Steven Salmoni, Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam 7:45–9:00 pm Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand, MG Roberts, Samuel Ace, James Maughn, Barbara Tomash, Jesse Nissim, Anastacia Renee, Jaimie Gusman, Monica Ortega Ortiz, Anna Morrison, Hazel White, Sarah Riggs

Free