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Winter Poetry Festival

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Warm your soul during the darkest days of winter at the first Winter Poetry Fest! We are crafting this event to be an inspirational refuge from the chaos of the holiday season. It will be full of diverse, local poets, chapbooks and broadsides for sale their authors; writing workshops and readings. In addition, there will be hands-on activities, writing games, a holiday card print-pull, cut-up poetry button making and more! Buy last minute holiday gifts for all your artsy friends while directly supporting writers, hide from your in-laws, feed your creativity with writing prompts and games, feed your mouth with delicious snacks, write a poem to put on the Poetry Tree and celebrate the solstice with your creative family <3. Hosted by the Independent Publishing…

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Free

Slamlandia

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Slamlandia is at Literary Arts this Thursday, January 10th! We will have a special feature from the phenomenal Laura Houlberg. Laura Houlberg ( @lo__lands ) is a Portland writer & filmmaker who sharpened their teeth in Los Angeles. She has competed twice at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational and has won the Portland Poetry Slam three times. Their poetry has appeared in Michelle Tea’s Radar Productions: GLOW Queer Poetry Feature, Big Big Wednesday, SUSAN the Journal, and archived on Oregon Poetic Voices. Her films have premiered on Ones to Watch, Northwest Filmmakers' Festival, and the Reel Music Festival. She is usually dancing in front of the PhotoBooth app like it’s 2008. View their work here: laurahoulberg.party Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam…

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Laura Houlberg

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This slam is the second of four qualifiers for our fourth round semi-final to pick our team for 2019! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature performance from Laura Houlberg! More about Laura Laura Houlberg is a Portland writer & filmmaker who sharpened their teeth in Los Angeles. She has competed twice at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational and has won the Portland Poetry Slam three times. Their poetry has appeared in Michelle Tea’s Radar Productions: GLOW Queer Poetry Feature, Big Big Wednesday, SUSAN the Journal, and archived on Oregon Poetic Voices. Her films have premiered on Ones to Watch,…

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Free – $5

A Night of Poetry with Amy Orazio, Brandon Jordan Brown, and Laura Houlberg

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

Join us on Saturday, March 9 at 7 pm to hear new poetry from three fabulous Portland poets. Amy Orazio’s work has appeared in Gap Tooth, Pidgeonholes, Chaparral, Timber Journal, Ruminate Magazine, The Curator and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, called Quench, (CW Books), is available now. Amy lives in the uncool part of Portland with her husband and two tiny sons. Brandon Jordan Brown is an Alabama-born poet living in Portland, Oregon. A 2014 PEN American Emerging Voices Fellow and winner of the 2016 Orison Anthology Poetry Prize, Brandon’s work appears in The Journal; Sycamore Review; RHINO Poetry; Forklift, Ohio and elsewhere. His poetry-film “XOXO” was a recent selection at Seattle’s Cadence: A Video Poetry Festival. Laura Houlberg is a Portland writer & filmmaker who sharpened their teeth in Los Angeles.…

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Free

It Tells You: Poetry to Script Workshop with Laura Houlberg

third room 707 NE Broadway (Suite 205), Portland, OR, United States

it’s back! It Tells You: Poetry to Script workshop with @lo__lands this August. Learn screenwriting fundamentals! Adapt a poem to a short script! Give & receive helpful peer feedback! Present final piece to your friends! Poetry is for everyone, screenwriting is for everyone, we have a right to visual culture and story telling is ours! We deserve our humanity in image! $25-50 sliding scale, no one turned away! Sign up link bio :-)

$25 – $50
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