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Spare Room reading: Lindsey Boldt, Sara Jaffe, & Steve Orth

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

$5 suggested donation for the readers (no one turned away for lack of funds) Lindsey Boldt's most recent publications include: Some Ennui (Portable Press @ Yo Yo Labs, 2019), <<(( ))>> (Couch Press, 2016), and Overboard (Publication Studio Portland, 2012). Her poems, essays, and stories have been published by Wolfman New Life Quarterly, Art Practical, The Drunken Boat, and The Poetry Foundation's blog, Harriet. With Steve Orth, she co-wrote and produced the plays "Dating by Consensus," "Escape from Century Hills," and "The Reading." She lives in Olympia, Washington on Squaxin and Nisqually land. Sara Jaffe is a writer living in Portland, OR. Her first novel, Dryland, was published by Tin House Books in September 2015. Her short fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared or are…

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A Marathon Reading of Ronald Johnson’s ARK

Chris Ashby's Apartment 615 SE 18th Avenue, Apt. 1 (not A), Portland, OR, United States

Each winter, the Spare Room reading series hosts a marathon reading of a long work. In 2020 we’ll be reading Ronald Johnson’s long poem ARK, which was written over about 25 years and published in sections between 1980 and 1996 (and reprinted in 2013 by Flood Editions). Guy Davenport wrote: "ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them." Free.…

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Spare Room Reading: Lindsey Boldt, Jacob Kahn, & Turner Canty

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by JACOB KAHN, LINDSEY BOLDT, & TURNER CAPEHART CANTY Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur Street, Suite 660, Portland, OR 97209 Admission free Covid precautions: Proof of vaccination and masks required PLEASE NOTE: Doors will open at 7:30; reading will start promptly at 8:00, with no late admissions. (See the Facebook Event Discussion for poems by the poets.) Lindsey Boldt is the author of Weirding (Dogpark Collective), the chapbooks Some Ennui (Portable Press @ Yoyo Labs) and <(( ))> (Couch Press), and the novella Overboard (Publication Studio). With Steve Orth, she wrote & performed plays for San Francisco Poets Theater and co-edited the chapbook series Summer BF Press. She is currently the editorial director of Nightboat Books and lives in…

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