PCC Faculty Reading
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin us for a reading from the writing faculty at PCC, a faculty of talented writers who are guiding a new generation of writers.
Free
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PCC Student Reading
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesWe are excited to welcome these students who are voluntarily reading in public.
Free
Drink and Write Tuesdays
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesJeanne Faulkner hosts this drop-in writing workshop on the last Tuesday of every month. Jeanne provides the prompts, tips, and coaching. You bring your computer and notebook.
Free
Poetry and Jazz: Notes and Motes
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesThe Rose City Book Pub is pleased to again host Notes & Motes: The Vlatkovich Trio Plus One. Join us for some freeform Jazz driven by Poetry with an Edge. Michael Vlatkovich - Trombone Chris Lee - Percussion Shao Way Wu - Bass Casey Bush - Poetry
Free
Emme Lund in Conversation with Stacy Brewster
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesWe are thrilled to be hosting Emme Lund for the launch of the paperback edition of her novel The Boy with a Bird in His Chest. Emme will be in conversation with Stacy Brewster, who is the author of the story collection What We Pick Up.
Free
Risograph Basics @ Outlet!
Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United StatesAbout the Workshop Welcome to our Risograph Basics course: a printing, collage, experimentation, and mark making extravaganza! Get to know Outlet and our RISO sisters (Barbara, Janet, Corita, and Tina) and learn the basics of this fun and unique print method! This workshop is a great place to start if you’re new to riso, or if you’d like a refresher! We’ll take a deep dive into risograph history, an overview of how these machines work, the stencil-duplicator process, and the quirks and fun (sometimes unpredictable) outcomes of riso printing. The main focus of this class is EXPERIMENTATION. We’ll share print and zine inspiration, favorite mark making tools and how to use them for riso, and we’ll walk through a print demo on two of our…
$100 – $125
Benson High School WITS
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States
Free
Gemma Whalen in Conversation with Rene Denfeld
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesWe are excited to host Gemma Whelan for the launch of her second novel, Painting Through the Dark. Gemma will be in conversation with Portland author Rene Denfeld, the author of several books, including The Enchanted, The Child Finder, The Butterfly Girl, and the forthcoming (May 2023) Fire and Water. Gemma's new novel tells the story of feisty 21-year-old Ashling O'Leary, who flees the emotional shackles of her family in Ireland and the convent where she was training to be a nun. She arrives in San Francisco in 1982 with a backpack, a judo outfit, her artist's portfolio, a three-month visa, and a determination to find a way to speak up about the abuse of girls and women in Catholic Ireland. As she becomes embroiled…
Free
National Poetry Month: FREE Movie Night! The Last Poets
The Headwaters Theatre 55 Northeast Farragut Street #9, Portland, OR, United StatesApril is National Poetry Month! Come enjoy a free movie and stay for the open mic! Tonight's film will highlight the groundbreakers and trailblazers of what is today's hip-hop and spoken word--The Last Poets! A little about The Last Poets: The Last Poets are several groups of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African-American civil rights movement's black nationalism. The name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns would take over. The original users of that name were the trio of Abiodun Oyewole, Gylan Kain, and David Nelson. The versions of the group led by Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin and Umar Bin Hassan had the…
$10
Ben Nickol in Conversation with Margaret Malone
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesWe are thrilled to welcome novelist Ben Nickol in conversation with Margaret Malone, discussing his newly published novel, The Sea Lanterns The book tells the story of Scott Darrow, marooned as athletic director at a backwater college and hungry for more, plotting his ascent to a better job at a better school. Darrow has the talent, charm, and Machiavellian nerve to go far, but when he hires a famous coach to run his basketball program, the coach proves to be unstable and possibly insane.Now, to escape professional oblivion, Darrow must maneuver and manipulate this coach, and manage the town's intensifying suspicions. Ben Nickol is also the author of Sun River: Stories, which was named a Quivering Pen Best Book of 2019. His stories and essays…
Free
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