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Rebecca Brown with Kevin Sampsell & Kate Carroll deGutes

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

From Mother Foucault's Bookshop's website: Saturday, October 27, we welcome Seattle literary legend and Stranger Genius Award winner, Rebecca Brown, as she reads from her dazzling new book of stories, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (Tarpaulin Sky Press). Rebecca will be joined by Portland authors Kevin Sampsell (This Is Between Us, A Common Pornography) and Kate Carroll deGutes (The Authenticity Experiment), both of whom will be reading from new work.

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CLASH Books Portland Book Festival Offsite Reading

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

From the Facebook event: Join CLASH Books for an all star lineup of Portland’s finest at the brand new Rose City Book Pub! Come for the drinks & stay for the lit! Books by the authors will be for sale. FEATURING JENNIFER ROBIN OPHELIA DARKLY ANNA SUAREZ DANGER SLATER GARRETT COOK CHRISTOPH PAUL JEFF BURK CHARLES AUSTIN MUIR KEVIN SAMPSELL KEVIN MALONEY JIM AGPALZA KATHRYN LOUSE NATHAN CARSON CONSTANCE ANNE FITZGERALD LEZA CANTORAL BIOS Jennifer Robin is the author Death Confetti (2016). Her short works have been published in Five2One, PLAZM, King Shot Press, and Ladybox Books. Robin's 2019 FUNGASM release, EARTHQUAKES IN CANDYLAND is a work of journalism in which she sings a song of soul gamblers in the age of disaster capitalism. Ophelia…

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STTS: Live! at LitCrawl

L5:ArtWorks 920 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

It's Storytellers Telling Stories: Live! Where a live band plays while performers regale you with adventures in heartache, fame, and awkwardness. Storytellers Telling Stories Live! is where music meets storytelling -- authors, poets, actors, comedians, and musicians unite for a rousing performance full of laughter and heartache -- inspired by the Storytellers Telling Stories Podcast and hosted by Jude Brewer. OUR LINEUP: Brianna Barrett Kevin Sampsell Jennifer Robin Tabitha BlankenBiller Margaret Malone ...featuring the Colin Trio as the live band!

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User Not Found book release party w/ Felicity Fenton & friends

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Come celebrate the release of the newest Future Tense book, User Not Found, by Portland's Felicity Fenton. She'll be joined by authors Rebecca Schiff (The Bed Moved) and Jay Ponteri (Darkmouth Strikes Again), with music by Milk Bandits. About the book: Prompted by a sequence of discouraging internet encounters, Felicity Fenton attempts to free herself from the tendrils of an online world we know, but struggle to look away from. She evaluates the endless distractions of being tethered to her device and all that comes with it: email, spam, texting, taking pictures, and social media (aka “the walls”). In lyrical prose that swerves into dream-like mirage, hilarious thoughts, social observations, and unwavering sadness, User Not Found is a powerful essay that is all too relatable.…

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The Stacks Coffeehouse Grand Opening Party (ALL DAY)

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

Help us celebrate the opening of The Stacks Coffeehouse! We'll have five minute readings all day long by a wide variety of amazing local authors. Schedule and details to come, but we'd love to see you that day! Readers: Mary Milstead, Nathan Metcalfe, Bradley J. Clark, Alicia Jo Rabins, Thea Prieto, Matt Robinson, Natalie Serber, Alexandra Brown & David Brown, Melissa Lynne, Melissa Duclos, Kimberly King Parsons, Elizabeth Pickard, Hannah Pass, Colleen Burner, Heather Napulani Hodges, Jenevive Desroches, Cecily Patterson, Jackie Shannon Hollis, Kevin Sampsell, Liz Prato, Alexa Weinstein, Joanna Rose, Amelia Woodside, Brian M. Biggs, Amber Keller, Stevan Allred, Kendra Ferguson, Kate Gray, Mo Daviau, Yuvi Zalkow, Jan Neudeck, Josh Lubin, Brian Benson, Leanna Moxley, Laura Stanfill

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Tosh Berman in Conversation With Kevin Sampsell

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Tosh (City Lights) is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture, Tosh Berman's father, Wallace, was known as the "father of assemblage art," and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication, Semina. Tosh is a self-portrait taken at the crossroads of popular culture and the avant-garde. Berman will be joined in conversation by Kevin Sampsell, author of This Is Between Us.

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Books & Brews

Sidebar (Lompoc Brewing) 3901A N Williams Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Offsite reading, featuring: Susan Straight, Matt Bell, Randa Jarrar, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kevin Sampsell, Lydia Kiesling, Adrienne Celt, Miciah Bay Gault, Allegra Hyde, Tabitha Blankenbiller, Armin Tolentino, Beth Gilstrap, Michael Schmeltzer, David Leo Rice, and more. Free swag and a free raffle throughout the night. Readers will sign and have books for sale. Food, including gluten-free options, and Lompoc craft beer for purchase. Bar is open until midnight. Facility is accessible, indoors, all-ages. Parking is street parking only, and very limited; car service recommended. Contact: Leah Angstman

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Celebration of Mothers! With Leanne Grabel and more

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Here's to Moms!! Please join us as we celebrate mothers with seven fabulous local poets! Reading tonight will be Kevin Sampsell, Tim Barnes, Suzanne Sigafoos, Penelope Schott, Donna Prinzmetal, Nikki Shulak, and Leanne Grabel. Kevin Sampsell is a Portland author, publisher, bookseller, collage artist, and father. He was born in Kennewick, Washington, and is the youngest of six children. While growing up, his mother worked at a fabric store and made most of his wardrobe. Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Recent books include Serpent Love: A Mother-Daughter Epic about a struggle with her adult daughter, House of the Cardamom Seed, and November Quilt. Penelope lives a double life -- in Portland where she and her husband host…

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