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AWP Offsite: Poets from A Dozen Nothing

Music Millennium 3158 E Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us at Portland's legendary record shop Music Millennium for a reading by poets from A Dozen Nothing journal. This will be a lively and fun event, with 26 poets from across the country, each reading one or two poems in rapid succession in wide array of styles. The poets reading are: Christopher J. Adamson, Liz Ahl, Jeff Alessandrelli, Susan Briante, Paul Hanson Clark, Meriwether Clarke, Brian Clifton, John Deming, Brittany Dennison, Matt Hart, Mark Haunschild, Elizabyth Hiscox, Rebecca Hoogs, Robert Krut, Krystal Languell, Raina León, Denis Mair, Farid Matuk, Lupe Mendez, Juan Morales, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Sarah Pape, Todd Robinson, Sam Roxas-Chua, Megan Snyder-Camp, Jordan Stempleman, Adeeba Talukder, and Matthew Yeager. Hope to see you there!

Free

YesYes Books Celebration!

Cup & Bar 118 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Please help us celebrate our new and forthcoming books! Check out this lineup! Diannely Antigua, Brandon Courtney, Aidan Forster, Matt Hart, Nabila Lovelace, Marty McConnell, Emily O'Neill, Tanya Olson, John Allen Taylor, Emily Vizzo. Food and drink coupon to the first fifty guests. Come early for starters! Cup & Bar is fully accessible and close to the Convention Center (0.3 miles). Come celebrate with us! Contact: KMA Sullivan

Free

Lit Crawl Portland: Our Words Are a Bridge

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

We proudly present our Lit Crawl Portland 2019 event, Our Words Are a Bridge: An Evening with The Rumpus, Corporeal Writing, and YesYes Books! Where: Coporeal Writing 510 SW 3rd Ave #101 Portland, OR 97204 With readings from Diannely Antigua, Jennine Capó Crucet, Steph Cha, Brandon Courtney, Ross Gay, Matt Hart, and T Kira Madden. This event is free and open to the public! Original event artwork by Lisa Lee Herrick. Join The Rumpus, Corporeal Writing, and YesYes Books for Our Words Are a Bridge! Featuring readings from Diannely Antigua, Jennine Capó Crucet, Steph Cha, Brandon Courtney, Ross Gay, Matt Hart, and T Kira Madden, and hosted by Rumpus Editor-in-Chief Marisa Siegel.

Free

PNCA Winter Residency Reading 3

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

@p_n_c_a Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing winter snowball Residency begins tomorrow! Readings are free & open to the public. You should attend! https://pnca.edu/news/grad/lrcw/pnca-offers-talks-discussions-and-readings-by-acclaimed-writers-as-part-of-the-winter-low-residency-mfa-in-creative-writing-program. @pncacriticalstudies Matt Hart Walidah Imarisha Tyrone Williams Room 601

Free

PNCA Low-Residency MFA Program Summer 2020 Residency Classes & Readings Open to the Public

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

As part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers and artists, July 24th to August 3rd. Everything is free and open to the public. All events this summer are hosted via Zoom. The passwords for all faculty classes are 515000. CLASSES Saturday, July 25 10am: Unsafe is Not a Feeling: How Writing Contends with the Illusion of Safety Sara Jaffe https://pnca.zoom.us/j/98345715004?pwd=OVVOLysrZUh5S0hxS0d5QlBHUDZMUT09 2pm: Winter Poop, Spring Revivals, Summer Fires, and Fall Marigolds Alison C Rollins https://pnca.zoom.us/j/98224439656?pwd=TnNGWkJmQUZaTWlOOXFhZjlhUnJudz09 Sunday, July 26 10am: THE ART OF WEALTH (in life & in literature) Vi Khi Nao https://pnca.zoom.us/j/95075415254?pwd=YVd4ZVJON3YrZHIrdWF1MXN4WmkwZz09 Monday, July 27 10am: Outsider Ecopoetics Tyrone Williams https://pnca.zoom.us/j/95516376236?pwd=T1EycmFvM05STEJlN1JPZ3k3WVY3dz09 11am: Feminism / Queer Theory Shawna Liption and Sloane McNulty https://pnca.zoom.us/j/97573944766?pwd=Y0NZeEtETmxZdDFRczRrYU0wdEJLdz09 Tuesday, July 28…

Free