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Offsite Finale with Four Way Review, Construction, New South, and Inch

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

New South, Construction Magazine, INCH, and Four Way Review invite you to an off-site reading to end AWP2019 in Portland. Sweet, micro-readings from the likes of: Colleen Louise Barry Amie Zimmerman Aliceanna Stopher J Bailey Hutchinson Lauren Goodwin Slaughter Maya Jewell Zeller Kelly Grace Thomas Sonia Greenfield Saddiq M Dzukogi sam sax Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Keetje Kuipers Nathan McClain Meghan Dunn C.T. Salazar and more. This reading is free and open to the public. About The Readers: Colleen Louise Barry is an artist and writer living in Seattle, WA. She is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Poultry in Motion (Factory Hollow Press). She runs the interdisciplinary project Mount Analogue. @colleenlouisebarry / @themountanalogue / www.mount-analogue.com J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee.…

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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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