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Michelle Michelle: Readings & Performances

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

Join Michelle Overby on Thursday, March 7 at 7 pm for an evening of readings and performances with local artists and writers Eva Bertoglio, Julia Wohlstetter, Ross Robbins, Hajara Quinn, Kara McMullen, Isabel Zacharias, Delphine Bedient, Sarah Brahim, and Chris Maday. Michelle is a wife, mother, poet, stenographer, and radical lady. She has published two books of haiku with Two Plum Press of Portland, Oregon. She’s anxiously working on a third book of poetry for Two Plum due out sometime in 2019.

Free

Oracle: Poetry & the Occult, an “off-sight” AWP event

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

Join us in a safe, inclusive space for oracular rumination by poets who practice craft and craft! There will poems, bar breaks, pub food and drink, a back patio, invocations, and a ritual at midnight for healing in the literary community. EVA BERTOGLIO is an artist, writer and lifelong Oregonian. Her work can be found in 50 Haikus, Oregon's Best Emerging Poets, Pom Pom Lit, and the chapbook First Winter of Persephone. She lives in Portland, OR LISA CICCARELLO is the author of At Night (Black Ocean, 2015), as well as several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, The Academy of American Poets, Denver Quarterly, the PEN Poetry Series, Handsome, & The Volta, among others. She adores gothic mysteries, candle-making & creating literary…

Free

Tell Me A Story? #6

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

Tell Me A Story is a semi-regular reading series hosted by Jessica Wadleigh at the Rose City Book Pub on NE Fremont Street. This series features storytellers and poets coming together to share their work. This free event will feature great work from: - Jewels - Margaret Malone - Briauna Taylor - Emilly Prado - Julia Wohlstetter - and your host, Jessica Wadleigh Please join us Monday, July 29th at Rose City Book Pub from 7pm-9pm. Drinks and a full menu of delicious food and snacks are available.

Free

5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

it’s that time again! this Thursday 8/15 come check out the newest edition of 5x5 with work by @futureeva @sh______ed @nathanwadecarter @jesswadleigh @daniela_naomi_molnar 8pm @cardinalclub 18 ne 28th ave Revisiting these retro 5x5 flyers, pretty cool lineups :) Next reading is 8/15, lineup TBA !! If you’re interested in participating send me a DM 5 x 5 is a monthly poetry reading series featuring 5 works by 5 local writers.

Free

5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Cardinal Club Presents: ~5x5~ 9/19/19 7 pm with new work by: Nathan Wade Carter Spencer Pond Isabel Zacharias Sarah Cutsforth Shloimy Notik this thursday! 7pm! come out for the newest edition of 5x5, with work by @purrbot @____iz__ @shloimynotik @milhouse_rules @sarahjanecuts

Free