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PHR Launch Party at AWP 2019

Blackfish Art Gallery 420 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Porter House Review will be celebrating our launch at AWP 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Join us for readings by Karen Russell, Lauren K. Alleyne, Michelle Donahue, Cheston Knapp, Tomás Q. Morín, and Luisa Muradyan; giveaways of signed books and broadsides; food and drinks; and a celebration of literary community. Emcee: Cecily Parks Please join us to celebrate the launch of Porter House Review, a new journal based out of Texas State University that is dedicated to supporting writers who interrogate the prevailing social challenges of our time. We invite you for a night of food, drink, games, giveaways, readings, and literary community.

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Book Launch Party for Don’t Read This Book

Gather Food and Drink 1000 NE Multnomah St, Portland, OR, United States

Benjamin Gorman's fourth novel, Don't Read This Book, hits bookstore shelves on March 26th, and Not a Pipe Publishing wants to celebrate with all our friends and fellow authors who have been so supportive. We'll meet at Gather, the bar in the DoubleTree Hotel, to celebrate the launch (and the success of Not a Pipe's panel presentation earlier in the day). Hope to see you there! Contact: Benjamin Gorman

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Launch Party and Broadside Printing Demo with Ecotone & Lookout Books

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us as we launch Ecotone's Bradford–Niedermann Broadside Series, and celebrate Ecotone's latest issue and the new anthology, Trespass, from Lookout Books. Featured poets Cortney Lamar Charleston and Molly Tenenbaum will read, and designer and printer Rory Sparks will host a letterpress printing demo for anyone who wants to try out printing the last run on a broadside. Door prizes will include broadsides and copies of our publications. Light refreshments will be served. Come celebrate with Ecotone and Lookout staff and authors! Contact: Anna Lena Phillips Bell Print Studio, Room 257, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209 Here’s something we’ve been scheming about for a while: in honor of Ecotone poetry editor Jason Bradford, and his mother, Shirley Niedermann,…

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Rosanne Parry presents Last of the Name

Gastro Mania - Multnomah Village 7850 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Join Annie Bloom's own Rosanne Parry for the launch party for her latest novel, Last of the Name. The event will be held next door to the store, at Gastromania. In addition to a reading from the book, there will be live Irish music from Nancy and Mark Jarell, with songs by David Ingerson and poetry and traditional dancing by Phil Mehan. In Last of the Name, twelve-year-old Danny O'Carolan and his sister, Kathleen, arrive in New York City in 1863. Kathleen refuses to be parted from her only remaining relative, so she finds a job in domestic service for herself and her younger...sister. Danny reluctantly pretends to be a girl to avoid being sent to the children's workhouse or recruited as a drummer boy…

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Ooligan Press Presents: The Gifts We Keep Launch Party!

Rogue Ales & Spirits - Rogue Hall 1717 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us at Rogue Hall to celebrate the launch of The Gifts We Keep by Katie Grindeland! Enjoy snacks and appetizers, excellent local beers on tap, participate in fun activities including free tarot readings, and enter for the chance to win raffle prizes! Katie Grindeland will be reading from her debut novel, The Gifts We Keep. Don't miss your chance for early release copies available for purchase and signing! We're gonna have a blast! Can't wait to see you there!

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Book Launch: Blake Nelson presents The Red Pill

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

Join Portland novelist Blake Nelson (Paranoid Park, Girl) to celebrate the release of his new novel THE RED PILL.

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Jennifer Robin’s Earthquakes in Candyland Launch Party!

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

Death Confetti author Jennifer Robin reads from EARTHQUAKES IN CANDYLAND. Get ready for two hours of this unholy string bean reading her book's travel stories, interviews, confessions, and quotidian crimes. Earthquakes in Candyland is about a nation both fearful of and titillated by skin—skin color, skin coverings, and the puncturing of skin by bullwhips, needles, bullets that bloom like shrapnel in a gut. Earthquakes in Candyland is a book of love stories, odes to people who burn so bright that they have scarred Robin’s retinas for life. Street kids in New Orleans, an army wife on a Greyhound bus who claims to be a Victoria’s Secret Model with 40 wigs in her Gucci suitcase, Lonnie the junkie who sees angels everywhere and is still in…

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Queen of the Sea Launch Party

Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

The FIRST EVENT in our NEW SPACE is heckin DYLAN MECONIS, folks! Which is to say, we are the LUCKIEST. You know her work from Bite Me!, Family Man, Outfoxed, and The Long Con. Now: a big fat book of graphic historical fiction with a whole bunch of nuns. YES. (Official, far more informative marketing copy follows). Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this beautifully detailed hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary. When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But…

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The Grandma Reporter Intimacy Issue Magazine Launch Party

Hollywood Senior Center 1820 NE 40 Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

The Grandma Reporter is a collaboratively made publication about senior women’s culture across the Earth. The 32-page Intimacy issue explores a taboo subject via multidisciplinary projects, presenting perspectives that are playful, humorous, celebratory and poignant. The launch party features an Intimacy Manifesto, fashion line, Senior Women's Erotica Club, gentle dancing, readings, activities, refreshments and more! Copies of the issue will be available at sliding scale. *** A women only discussion circle on intimacy will be held during the second hour (all women welcome, including cis, gay, lesbian, bi or trans). Come regardless of age! bring an older friend! The publication will be disseminated at senior centers and available for worldwide distribution. This project was made at the Hollywood Senior Center by an all women's team…

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Unamerican Scum Launch Party

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand, Portland, OR, United States

Join King Shot and Eraserhead Press to celebrate the release of Cody Goodfellow's new novels, UNAMERICA and SCUM OF THE EARTH. Readings by John Skipp, John Shirley, Michael Kazepis, Nathan Carson and Cody Goodfellow. Sick beats! Door prizes! Drink specials! EXPIATION! No cover!

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