LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Fierce Love: The Field Office Collective Reading

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

We're doing it again! The Field Office is coming together for a collective reading this Spring, featuring: Kazim Ali, Curtis Bauer, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Ansel Elkins, Nikky Finney, Vievee Francis, Ross Gay, Tyehimba Jess, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Adrian Matejka, Gregory Pardlo, Steve Scafidi, and Marcus Wicker. More information: http://fieldofficeagency.com/love Contact: The Field Office

Free

AWP 32 Poems / AGNI / Gulf Coast / Pleiades / Quarterly West

The Slide Inn 2342 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United States

Calling all AWP Portland attendees! Join 32 Poems Magazine, AGNI, Gulf Coast Journal, Pleiades and Quarterly West at The Slide Inn (2348 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214) Thursday 3/28 from 7-10 pm for readings by many talented contributors to our journals. Food and drink will be provided free of charge. We look forward to seeing you there! Readers will include: 32 Poems: Malachi Black, Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, Randall Mann, and Marcus Wicker AGNI: William Archila, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Edgar Kunz, Natalie Shapero, and Maggie Smith Gulf Coast: Gabrielle Bates, Tiana Clark, Amorak Huey, Diane Seuss, and Justin Wymer Pleiades: Destiny Birdsong, F Douglas Brown, Tyler Mills, Susannah Nevison, and David Welch Quarterly West: Kaveh Akbar, Dorothy Chan, Brandon Courtney Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Carlos Price-Sanchez

Free

Poetry at the Heathman Library

The Heathman Hotel 1001 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening of poetry with William Brewer, author of I Know Your Kind, Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Series Poets Award, Hafizah Geter, poet, editor at Little A Books, and VP of the AWP Women’s Caucus, Edgar Kunz, author of the upcoming Tap Out, Paige Lewis, author of Space Struck, and Marcus Wicker, author of Silencer, NAACP finalist, at the one of a kind Heathman Hotel Library! Friday, March 29th, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Heathman Hotel, Mezzanine Library, 1001 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205. Contact: Jenny Xu

Free