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Dark Moon Reading

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

From Mother Foucault's Bookshop's website: Dear Friends, please join us on Thursday, October 25 for a reading of poetry, prose, and dark matter. More about readers and work below. manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist living and working out of a garage in southeast Portland, OR. They use text, ephemeral sculpture, and the general intellect in a process of magical thinking, with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics. They wrote List of Consonants (Bottlecap Press, 2015), transtrender (Quimérica Books), and most recently,their debut collection of critical prose, Incalculable Loss, available now from the Institute of New Connotative Action Press. abreu also co-runs home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland. https://manuelarturoabr.eu Olivia Olivia comes from the same place all sad things come from–the sea. Her writing…

Free

Kate Jayroe chapbook release

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Thursday, March 21st 2019 at 7:30pm Launch event for the release of Kate Jayroe's first print collection, Parts. Excited to announce Kate Jayroe's forthcoming collection of prose writings "Parts." The chapbook launch event is scheduled for Thursday, March 21 at 7pm and will feature readings from the book and by friends Olivia Olivia and Robert Torres along with a musical guest! Copies will be available for purchase at the event and online. Hope to see you there.  

Free

Portland State University’s Filament Reading Series

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

You won't want to miss Filament's AWP reading at Mother Foucault's! We're delighted to host an exciting line-up of readers. We'll be joined by: Leni Zumas - author of Red Clocks and director of the creative writing program at PSU Christopher Merkner - award-winning short story writer and visiting professor from University of Colorado Denver's English department Kate Jayroe - an alum of PSU's fiction program and short story writer Cynthia Gomez - current student in PSU's nonfiction program and Director of the Cultural Resource Center at PSU Alex Behr - an alum of PSU's fiction program and author of Planet Grim

Free

Lemon World 7

Lone Fir Cemetery Southeast 26th Avenue and Southeast Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

A weekly poetry reading series that takes place in Lone Fir Cemetery. Lemon World 7 features poetry by Kate Jayroe and Xesxa Despentes. *Reading site is visible from the cemetery entrance on the Morrison side across from the Belmont Apartments*

Free

Revenant

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Music & Words with friends new and old. Featuring Darian Gore (Nagoya, Japan), Trayce Cochran (Denton, TX), Lando Diaz (Seattle, WA), Robert Torres (Portland, OR), Kate Jayroe (Portland, OR), and A Stick and a Stone (Portland, OR - tour kickoff).

Free