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Le Salon Rouge presents AWP’s Best Selling Show

Residence SE 78th and SE Salmon, Portland, OR, United States

Le Salon Rouge and An Occasional Reading Series PRESENT AWP’s Best Selling Show at 78th & Salmon With your glamorous hosts Pat Janowski, Mark Savage, and Dena Rash Guzman featured guests: Meg Hurtado Bloom Leah Umansky along with extra special guests Mark Russell, Amy Temple Harper, Andy Anderson, Thomas Lucky Richards, and friends music by The Legendary Mark Peter Savage and karaoke snacks and drinks available Message for location of a stunning red room full of music, literature, performance and who knows what all else #awp19 free

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Gold Line Ricochet Authors Reading

Portland Burger 304 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us at Portland Burger for a reading (and karaoke) of authors published by Los Angeles-based Gold Line Press and Ricochet Editions, two small presses dedicated to publishing innovative, non-traditional, trans-genre and/or genre-less works. The two presses are run by students and alumni of the University of Southern California’s PhD Program in Creative Writing. Portland Burger is a family-run restaurant with beautiful murals and a guitar-shaped bar, offering a full bar and vegetarian options. Contact: Stephen van Dyck Readers: Alysse McCanna Stephen van Dyck Miriam Bird Greenberg Cassie Donish Elisabeth Frost Sandra Hunter Katharine Haake 8-9:30 PM FREE

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SPD 50th Anniversary Reading & Karaoke Party

McMenamins Kennedy School 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join Small Press Distribution, together with a cavalcade of publishers and singing poets, for our 50th anniversary celebration. It kicks off with a poetry reading featuring Gramma Poetry, City Lights, Ugly Duckling Presse, Birds LLC, Nightboat Books, and Krupskaya, followed by . . . Poet's Karaoke! Sign up and sing or just wallflower it—your choice—what happens at karaoke stays at karaoke. It all takes place in the gymnasium at the iconic Kennedy School, a former elementary school turned hotel-restaurant-brewery-event venue. We’ll provide the snacks! Contact: Brent Cunningham

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Literaoke at AWP19

Chopsticks Karaoke Bar 3390 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

It's time for another epic evening of singing, reading, and joy! Kaya Press, Kundiman, AAWW, AALR, and the Smithsonian APA Center are bringing together an amazing, diverse line-up of performers who will sing one minute of their favorite karaoke banger and then read from their own work. Don't miss it!! FEATURING: Helene Achanzar Andres Cerpa Amy Lam Shayla Lawson Mimi Lok Teraya Paramehta Anastacia Renee Sokunthary Svay Esmé Weijun Wang Yanyi AND MORE! LITERAOKE at AWP2019 will be held on Saturday March 30th from 7 - 9 pm at Chopsticks Karaoke Bar (3390 NE Sandy Blvd).

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Alibi Tiki Lounge AWP Wrap-Up & Close Out Party

Alibi Tiki Lounge 4024 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Featuring: Richard Chiem, Julia Dixon Evans, Ryan Bradford, Adrian Van Young, and Carlos Jose Perez Samano, and more! Karaoke to follow.

Free

Press Battle! A Poetry + Karaoke War

The Waypost 3120 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join University of Hell Press, Write Bloody Publishing, and CLASH Books in a poetry to karaoke battle for all time ever! Really.

Free

Monster Pageant 2: Return to Runway Island

East Portland Eagle Lodge 3256 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Monster Pageant stomps back to Portland on June 14th with MONSTER PAGEANT 2: RETURN TO RUNWAY ISLAND. The event will run from approximately 6:30 - 8:30pm and is ALL AGES. After the main event, there will be MONSTER KARAOKE from 9pm-12:30, which will be 21+. More info to come! TREMBLE as mighty mutants and glamorous giants compete in colossal challenges for the title of Portland’s Most Fashionable Monster! SHUDDER as a cardboard city is leveled before your very eyes! MARVEL as eerie aliens and colossal brutes take to the runway to strut their stuff! THRILL at the sound of live music played by Portland's Beastliest Band, the one and only Creature Party! Every creature will astound your senses, but only one will rule supreme! Monster…

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$1 – $15

All Pinxy All Stars at Milepost 5

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Join the Portland-based celebration(s!!) for the launch of Michelle Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE! Join us on September 18th for an evening with All Star Pinxy writers, Christopher Rose, Armin Tolentino, Janice Sapigao, Jake Vermaas along with Michelle, in APANO's De-Canon Library at Milepost 5. Portland- and Northern California- based poets will join forces to combine readings and karaoke into an extravaganza of entertainment and literary import! Doors open at 6:30pm, and readings/performances will begin promptly at 7:00pm! All are welcome and the event is free of charge.

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Mother Foucault’s 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, United States

Join us at the 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival at Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, Washington! October 25-27, join publishers, authors, and plain old book lovers for potlucks in the pavilion, readings, workshops, walks by the sea, and maybe even some karaoke at the Sou’wester Lodge and Trailer Park in Seaview, Washington. Featuring: Alejandro de Acosta, John Beer, Gerald Costanzo, Karolinn Fiscaletti, 2019 Airstream Fellow Harrison Harb, Anis Mojgani, Flavia Rocha, Ed Skoog, Rose Swartz. We are proud to announce the Winner of our Poetry Fellowship this year is Harrison Harb! As the 4th Annual Airstream Poetry Fellow, Harrison will spend the week prior to the festival in the Sou’wester’s Potato Bug trailer and share his work at the Saturday night reading. Tickets for the festival: Tickets…

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$20

Poetry Karaoke: Celebrity Judge Edition

The Cleaners at Ace Hotel 403 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

In the return of this Lit Crawl Portland favorite, audience members perform poems, and a spin of the wheel determines the musical style in which poems are read/performed. Corvallis-based band Mule on Fire will provide on-the-spot accompaniment for a range of poetic options. And again this year, celebrated authors from Portland and beyond will judge poetry karaoke performances. At the end of 45 minutes, a winner will be crowned Poetry Karaoke Champion for the year.

Free
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