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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

Free

Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream: A Reading Group of Joan Didion’s Essays on the American West

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Joan Didion essayed obsessively about the American west—from the California Governor’s mansion, to the hippies on Haight-Ashbury, to the graves within Honolulu’s Punchbowl Cemetery. In this 4-week seminar we’ll read and discuss several of Didion’s essays, while exploring what her rendering of the West mirrored in the United States, politically and socially. What makes Didion’s voice so compelling? Why do we relate to her, love her, hate her, revere her? This seminar will meet for four consecutive weeks, with essays assigned and read in advance of each session. Liz Prato will set the curriculum and facilitate and participate in conversations, but will not be lecturing. The purpose of the group is to exchange and explore ideas in a friendly, non-academic atmosphere that increases our understanding…

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$115

Forest Avenue Press Small Press Showcase

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

Join Portland’s Forest Avenue Press in celebrating authors from ten small presses! Alex DiFrancesco, Tom DeMarchi, Wendy J. Fox, Casandra Lopez, D. Keali‘i MacKenzie, Ron Maclean, Angela Mitchell, Rheea Mukherjee, Liz Prato, and Michael Shum will read from their recently published books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry at a women/GLBTQ-owned independent bookstore. Snack and beverages provided! Accessible space, only one mile from the Convention Center. Contact: Liz Prato For tonight's AWP off-site reading we welcome ten authors from ten different small presses!! Reading this evening will be Tom DeMarchi (Möbius Strips, Rain Chain Press), Alex DiFrancisco (Psychopomps, Civil Coping Mechanisms Press), Wendy Fox (If the Ice Had Held, Sante Fe Writers Project), Casandra López (Brother Bullet, University of Arizona Press), Keali'i Mackenzie (From Hunger to…

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Free
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