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Spring 5-Minute Reading Marathon

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our Spring Five-Minute Marathon Reading! If you were here for our Grand Opening party in December, you’re familiar with the format, but if not—each reader will read a five minute piece, and there will be about ten minutes between each reading, all afternoon. It’s a lot of fun, and we hope you can be there! Readers include: jay dodd, Sophia Shalmiyev, Nastashia Minto, Myllo Mae, Callum Angus, Gary Gamza, Ben McPherson, Laura Lampton Scott, Cecily Patterson, Michele Glazer, Alissa Hattman, Bethany Marcel, & Consuelo Wise.

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Spare Room reading: Michele Glazer & Martha Silano

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

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by Michele Glazer & Martha Silano $5 suggested donation; no one turned away Michele Glazer’s recent publications include poems in the Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Entropy, Iowa Review, and The New Yorker. She teaches in the MFA and BFA writing programs at Portland State University. She will read from a new manuscript. Martha Silano’s most recent collections are Gravity Assist and Reckless Lovely, both from Saturnalia Books. She is also co-author of The Daily Poet: Day-by-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice. She teaches at Bellevue College.

Free – $5

Night Sky Reading – Poems by Joanna Klink

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for a special reading to celebrate the release of Joanna Klink's new book of poetry, The Nightfields. For the link to access the event, register here. To celebrate the release of The Nightfields, 31 poets and writers will read from "Night Sky," the sequence of short poems that ends the book. Participating writers include: Leni Zumas, Mary Szybist, Rob Schlegel, Spencer Reece, Dana Prescott, D.A. Powell, Cecily Parks, Sameer Pandya, Shelly Oria, Lisa Olstein, Malena Mörling, Honor Moore, Joe Milazzo, Nathan McClain, Lynn Melnick, Youna Kwak, Joanna Klink, Anna Maria Hong, Brenda Hillman, Nick Gulig, Sarah Gridley, Michele Glazer, Annelyse Gelman, Forrest Gander, Amanda Fortini, Shangyang Fang, Timothy Donnelly, John D’Agata, John Beer, David Baker, and Stephanie Adams-Santos. The New York Journal of Books says of The Nightfields: “Klink is…

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Michele Glazer and Janice Lee Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Register here for the Michele Glazer and Janice Lee reading. You will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Michele Glazer’s fourth collection, fretwork, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2021. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Glazer teaches in the MFA and BFA programs at Portland State University. Comments on fretwork include: “Heir to Gerard Manley Hopkin’s unwavering gaze, Michele Glazer coolly attends to the arbitrary boundaries we claim between nature and culture and lets us witness how elusive and submerged human beings are to each other, especially at close proximity. I felt, in reading these poems, that this is someone who is tracking her world from an altogether different distance than the rest…

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Poetry Reading & Process Talk

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the next Siren Nation Speaks on December 5, a Poetry Reading & Process Talk with authors Dao Strom, Michele Glazer, and Endi Bogue Hartigan. They’ll read from their work, talk about their creative processes, and answer your questions. Find out how they get started on a piece, see it forward, and explore the power of language and art. Speakers Dao Strom is an artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. The author of five books and two song-cycles, most recently the poetry collection Instrument (Fonograf Editions) and its companion album, Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records), Strom was born in Vietnam and grew up in the Sierra Nevadas of California. Her bilingual…

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