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

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Talakayan at Kapehan: Letters to a Young Brown Girl

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for our next event in the Talakayan at Kapehan Series: Letters to a Young Brown Girl, cosponsored by NAFCON Portland and Whitenoise Project! How can we challenge and subvert the default condition of invisibility for Pinays and other Filipinx and brown folx? How can we demystify the steps in writing, publishing, fighting that invisibility and claiming our power to speak up and define our identities? Our second #NAFCONTAK event will feature a poetry reading and discussion about doing the work, about writing and publishing as a brown girl. There will be an opportunity for community Q&A after the reading. Featuring: Barbara Jane Reyes Sarahlynn Pablo Christian Aldana Pre-register for a free copy of “Letters to a Young Brown Girl!” for the first…

Free

Talakayan at Kapehan: The Power of the Written Word

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for our next event in the Talakayan at Kapehan Series: The Power of the Written Word, cosponsored by NAFCON Portland and Whitenoise Project! Did you know Clark County, WA, has a Filipino American Poet Laureate? What is the tradition of our poets making art and building community in the Philippines and the diaspora, and why weren’t we taught about them in schools? Join NAFCON Oregon and Whitenoise Project as we celebrate National Poetry Month, exploring these questions with local writers Armin Tolentino and Abigail Licad. Our second #NAFCONTAK event of 2021 will feature a poetry reading and discussion about seizing the means of literary production and building alternate structures to the academy. There will be a community Q&A after the reading, all…

Free