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AWP Off-site Kick-Off Poetry Reading

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading with Erika Meitner, Alicia Jo Rabins, Keetje Kuipers, Airea D. Matthews, Tess Taylor, & Rachel Zucker. (Note: this is the first of two separate readings at The Stacks tonight, so we will be prompt & will move the party next door afterwards!) Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, including Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), Copia (BOA Editions, 2014), and Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. Meitner is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she directs the MFA…

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PEN Northwest Wilderness Residency Reading

Cassidy's Restaurant 1331 SW Washington St, Portland, OR, United States

We welcome you to a gathering of former and current recipients of PEN Northwest’s Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency at the historic Cassidy’s Restaurant, a Portland institution. Sip a Queen of Spades or a local brew/wine while listening to a stellar lineup of alums share their work. Hear tales of off-the-grid adventures while residing in Southwest Oregon’s remote Rogue River Canyon, one of America’s last remaining wild places. Readers include John Daniel, Langdon Cook, Martha Silano, Keetje Kuipers, Henrietta Goodman, and Tessa Hulls. Full dinner menu. Come early to grab a seat! Contact: Martha Silano

Free

Coast to Coast Dinner: A Meal to Celebrate 60 Years of Poetry Northwest

The Nightwood Society 2218 NE Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

We're dining Portland-style to celebrate Poetry Northwest's 60th anniversary along with friends from BOA Editions and the UBC MFA program. Join us for a West Coast meets East Coast dinner cooked up by chef Sarah Schneider, including drinks and dessert. Brief readings by Ellen Bass, Geffrey Davis, Erika Meitner, Keetje Kuipers, Leila Chatti, Alix Ohlin, Nancy Lee, and David Hernandez will punctuate the evening, along with music by Ed Skoog's bluegrass band The Hill Williams. Expedition Press will commemorate our night with letterpress swag for each guest to take home. Reserve your ticket now! Contact: Poetry Northwest

$35

Offsite Finale with Four Way Review, Construction, New South, and Inch

Cider Riot 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

New South, Construction Magazine, INCH, and Four Way Review invite you to an off-site reading to end AWP2019 in Portland. Sweet, micro-readings from the likes of: Colleen Louise Barry Amie Zimmerman Aliceanna Stopher J Bailey Hutchinson Lauren Goodwin Slaughter Maya Jewell Zeller Kelly Grace Thomas Sonia Greenfield Saddiq M Dzukogi sam sax Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Keetje Kuipers Nathan McClain Meghan Dunn C.T. Salazar and more. This reading is free and open to the public. About The Readers: Colleen Louise Barry is an artist and writer living in Seattle, WA. She is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Poultry in Motion (Factory Hollow Press). She runs the interdisciplinary project Mount Analogue. @colleenlouisebarry / @themountanalogue / www.mount-analogue.com J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee.…

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Mother Foucault’s: Arthur / Barclay / Kuipers / Toliver

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

A poetry reading by James Arthur, Adèle Barclay, Keetje Kuipers, and Ashley Toliver. Canadian-American poet JAMES ARTHUR is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. ADÈLE BARCLAY’s writing has appeared in The…

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