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Kisha Schlegel and Lynn Otto

PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel’s first book of essays won the inaugural Gournay Prize from Mad Creek Books. She has published essays in the Tin House blog, The Kenyon Review, and Conjunctions and is a recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award, an Iowa Arts Grant, a Washington State Grant for Artist Projects, a writing residency at the Bloedel Reserve. A graduate of the University of Montana's Environmental Studies Program and the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, she now teaches creative writing at Whitman College. Lynn Otto’s first poetry collection, Real Daughter, won Unicorn Press’s 2017 First Book Award and will be available in early 2019. Lynn has an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University (Oregon) and was a 2015/16 resident associate at the…

Free

Unicorn Press Off-site Reading

Cider Riot 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Unicorn Press will host a reading by poets Dan Albergotti (Of Air and Earth), Julie Swarstad Johnson (Pennsylvania Furnace), Stephen Lackaye (Self-Portrait in Dystopian Landscape), Lynn Otto (Real Daughter), Crystal Simone Smith (One Window's Light), and Ross White (The Polite Society). Join us 8PM to 10PM at Cider Riot, located just a half mile from the Oregon Convention Center: Cider Riot! 807 NE Couch Street Portland, OR 97232 Food will be available until 9PM.

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Filament’s October Reading Featuring Alicia Jo Rabins

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

Join us for Filament's October reading, with special guest Alicia Jo Rabins! We have a new cast of talented MFA readers in addition to Alicia, and we're delighted to be back at the IPRC this autumn. "Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life. Rabins’ first collection of poetry, Divinity School, won the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her second collection, Fruit Geode, was published in October 2018 by Augury Books/Brooklyn Arts Press. As a musician and performer, Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about the…

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