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AWP 2019 // Burning Deck Exhibit and Tribute to the Waldrops

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

A display of Burning Deck publications from the past 60 years, including rare letterpress editions and magazines, along with a casual reading celebration, with many collaborators, friends, and former students of the Waldrops reading from favorite Burning Deck or Waldrop books. Featuring Alejandro de Acosta, Rae Armantrout, Kristin P. Bradshaw, Lee Ann Brown, Matthew Cooperman, Danielle Dutton, E. Tracy Grinnell, Aaron Kunin, Sawako Nakayasu, Jena Osman, Lisa Pearson, Sarah Riggs, Martin Riker, Cole Swensen, Lynn Xu, Magdalena Zurawski, and others. Exhibit open from 6 to 9pm, readings begin at 6:30 and 8:00. Presented by Wave Books and PNCA's Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing.

Free

Mixology: A Trans-Genre Cabaret

Teutonic Wine Company 3303 SE 20th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Mix it up with drinks, small plates, and transcendent poet-performers: Lee Ann Brown, Timothy Liu, Roxi Power, Michael Ruby & Larkin Higgins, Sam Truitt, Prageeta Sharma, and Ronaldo Wilson serve up tempting fare, from sound art to screen art, Neo-Benshi, to secret poetry concoctions. Ample seating in a cool tavern venue that regularly features Sunday jazz nights, ten minutes from the Oregon Convention Center. https://teutonicwines.com/events/ Contact: Roxi Power

Free

Poetry & Magic (Offsite AWP Reading)

The Raven's Wing Magical Co. 7927 SE 13th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Make magick with us during AWP! An evening designed to draw down the intimate relationship between poetry and magic, to create the terrain of rhythm, form and shape where word and enchantment walk together. Let's charge ourselves for personal, spiritual, and political transformation. Featuring: Katy Bohinc Lee Ann Brown Dominique Christina Joshua Davis Annie Finch Monica Mody Genevieve Pfeiffer Sheree Renée Thomas Joanna C. Valente Thursday, March 28 @ 8pm The Raven's Wing Magical Co. 7927 SE 13th Ave, Portland, OR 97202 Free admission. Curated by Monica Mody and Annie Finch. *** BIOS Katy Bohinc is the author of Dear Alain (Tender Buttons, 2014), letters to the French philosopher Alain Badiou about poetry, philosophy, and love, and a book of poems about the divine feminine,…

Free