The Team Mashallah Reading (AWP Offsite Event)
De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United StatesFeatured readers: Hanif Abdurraqib Kaveh Akbar Fatimah Asghar Safia Elhillo Angel Nafis!
Free
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AWP 32 Poems / AGNI / Gulf Coast / Pleiades / Quarterly West
The Slide Inn 2342 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United StatesCalling all AWP Portland attendees! Join 32 Poems Magazine, AGNI, Gulf Coast Journal, Pleiades and Quarterly West at The Slide Inn (2348 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214) Thursday 3/28 from 7-10 pm for readings by many talented contributors to our journals. Food and drink will be provided free of charge. We look forward to seeing you there! Readers will include: 32 Poems: Malachi Black, Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, Randall Mann, and Marcus Wicker AGNI: William Archila, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Edgar Kunz, Natalie Shapero, and Maggie Smith Gulf Coast: Gabrielle Bates, Tiana Clark, Amorak Huey, Diane Seuss, and Justin Wymer Pleiades: Destiny Birdsong, F Douglas Brown, Tyler Mills, Susannah Nevison, and David Welch Quarterly West: Kaveh Akbar, Dorothy Chan, Brandon Courtney Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Carlos Price-Sanchez
Free
Celebrating 10 Years of Electric Lit and the Rumpus
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesIt’s My Party, I’ll Cry If I Want To A 10th Birthday Bash for Electric Literature and The Rumpus AWP 2019: Portland Sponsored by Aevitas Creative Management Two of your favorite online literary sites are turning 10 this year, which is basically 100 in Internet years. Help Electric Literature and The Rumpus move into double digits and celebrate a ten years of championing new voices and creating a home for literature online. Six of our cherished contributors will read on the theme, “It’s my party, I’ll cry if I want to.” Then we’ll hang out, have drinks, eat cake, and reminisce about the last decade. You would cry too, if happened to you! Free drinks and birthday cake (while supplies last). Readings from Kaveh Akbar,…
Free
Tin House Summer Workshop Readings: Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jamel Brinkley, and Kaveh Akbar
Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, United States8:00 pm, Cerf Amphitheater – Signing to Follow Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jamel Brinkley, Kaveh Akbar Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon, and Guernica, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco, and works with…
Free
Tin House Summer Workshop Lectures: Patricia Smith, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Kaveh Akbar
Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, United States2:30 pm-3:20 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall Congratulations! You Are a Writer—Therefore, You Own the World, with Patricia Smith For as long as there have been Moleskins, #2 pencils, Bics, keyboards, and imagination, there has been a feverish, high-decibel debate about who has the right to tell what story. Can a white, middle-aged man from Vermont do justice to the story of a young woman in the antebellum South? Can a sighted storyteller have a blind protagonist? What “qualifications” do we need in order to write across lines of race, region, religion, history, and ability? 3:30 pm – 4:20 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall Revisiting Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, with Claire Vaye Watkins This lecture will reconsider Chopin’s classic novella through multiple critical lenses and wonder after…
$10
Live Wire: Tom Scharpling, Mohanad Elshieky, Kaveh Akbar, and MAITA
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United StatesTOM SCHARPLING Tom Scharpling has hosted the weekly radio call-in comedy program, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, for 18 years. He and his comedy parter Jon Wurster released a 16 disc compilation of their greatest hits, The Best of the Best Show, in 2015 to critical acclaim. He is also known as the voice of Greg Universe on the hit Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe and as a writer-executive producer for the Emmy Award–winning show Monk. In his new book, It Never Ends, Scharpling is sharing a story he has never told before—his own harrowing coming of age. He chronicles the lengths he has gone to pull away from the brink of self-destruction, his difficult rehabilitation and how he committed himself to reinvention…
$30 – $45
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