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Nightboat Books Group Reading! AWP 2019

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Nightboat Books is thrilled to host a rapid fire group reading featuring frontlist, backlist & forthcoming authors: Allison Cobb, Eleni Sikelianos, Aldrin Valdez, jayy dodd, Laura Moriarty, Fred Schmalz, Gracie Leavitt, Dawn Lundy Martin, Marwa Helal, Stephanie Young, Hazel White, Chad Sweeney, Brynne Rebele-Henry, Ely Shipley, Duriel Harris, Cole Swensen + more TBA!

Free

SPD 50th Anniversary Reading & Karaoke Party

McMenamins Kennedy School 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join Small Press Distribution, together with a cavalcade of publishers and singing poets, for our 50th anniversary celebration. It kicks off with a poetry reading featuring Gramma Poetry, City Lights, Ugly Duckling Presse, Birds LLC, Nightboat Books, and Krupskaya, followed by . . . Poet's Karaoke! Sign up and sing or just wallflower it—your choice—what happens at karaoke stays at karaoke. It all takes place in the gymnasium at the iconic Kennedy School, a former elementary school turned hotel-restaurant-brewery-event venue. We’ll provide the snacks! Contact: Brent Cunningham

Free

Nightboat Books & Black Sun Lit AWP Offsite Reading

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

Join Nightboat Books & Black Sun Lit for an #AWP19 offsite reading. Friday, March 29, 2019 Passages Bookshop 1223 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR 97232 8 PM Featuring: Erin Fleming Gracie Leavitt Vi Khi Nao Fred Schmalz Steven Seidenberg Aldrín Valdez ... http://nightboat.org http://blacksunlit.com

Free

Nightboat Books

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for this AWP 2019 offsite reading featuring Nightboat Books frontlist authors: Allison Cobb, Eleni Sikelianos, jayy dodd, Marwa Helal, Hazel White, Stacy Szymaszek!

Free

Essay; Wonder; Ugly Duckling; Nightboat; Les Figues

1122 Gallery 1122 SE 88th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us at 1122 Gallery for a reading and celebration of five presses that publish innovative, boundary-pushing, necessary work. Two readers will represent each press. Readers include Essay Press: Mary-Kim Arnold and Rebecca Brown, Wonder Press: Shiv Kotecha and Bridget Talone, Nightboat Books: Brian Teare and Rosamond S. King, Ugly Duckling Presse: Kristin Dykstra and Ed Steck, and Les Figues Press: Alexis Almeida and Andrea Abi-Karam. Dough by Los Angeles artist Stacy Elaine Dacheux will adorn the walls. Snacks and beverages will be on hand. Sure to be a great and inspiring evening! Contact: Jesse Morse Please join us at 1122 Gallery for a reading and celebration of five presses that publish innovative, boundary-pushing, necessary work. Two readers will represent each press. Essay Press:…

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