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Wordlights Poetry ft. Caroline Holm

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 7th, we'll have a feature from Caroline Holm and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Red O'Hare! OUR FEATURE: Caroline Holm Caroline Holm is a 25 year-old Oregon-based artist and writer. Her poetry touches on love, spirituality and the healing truths found present in the phases and systems of the natural world. She will be performing work from her new book of poems and original illustrations, Woodland, due out this spring. To learn more about her work and book release, visit carolineholmpoetry.com or @carolineholmpoetry on Instagram. YOUR HOST: Red O'Hare Red O'Hare is a Ashkenazi Jewish American poet…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Alejandro Jimenez

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 14th, we'll have a feature from Alejandro Jimenez and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Allegra White! OUR FEATURE: Alejandro Jimenez Alejandro is a multiple-time TEDx Speaker, multiple-time National Poetry Slam Semi-Finalist, and Emmy-nominated writer and poet from Colima, Mexico, living in the US. His work focuses on cultural identity, immigrant narratives, masculinity, memory, and the intersection of them all. His self-published book Moreno. Prieto. Brown. (2017) has sold over 1,000 copies - despite all the typos. More at www.alejandropoetry.com. YOUR HOST: Allegra White Allegra White is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Allegra's chapbook of poetry On…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Brennan Lucas Staffieri

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 21st, we'll have a feature from Brennan Lucas Staffieri and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Red O'Hare! OUR FEATURE: Brennan Lucas Staffieri Brennan Lucas Staffieri is a poet, playwright, podcaster, and director. He is currently a senior studying creative writing and theatre at Pacific University, and he founded and served as the president of the poetry club there, where he ran workshops and developed poetry programing for the campus. He is in the process of writing his first collection of poems, 41°43.5’ N, 49°56.8’ W, which explores grief aboard the sunken wreck of the RMS Titanic. He…

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CANCELED – Wordlights Poetry ft. Red O’Hare & Nicole Jean Turner

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 28th, we'll have features from Red O'Hare & Nicole Jean Turner and a short set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Igor Brezhnev! OUR FEATURES: Red O'Hare Red O'Hare is a Ashkenazi Jewish American poet from Oakland, California where she featured twice with Bay Area Generations. A product of Presbyterian missionaries from the Belgian Congo and Eastern European carny folk, Red has been performing poetry for 20 years with varying rates of success. She has recently released a poetry album Seaglass Strange (Lightship Press, 2019) and is currently working on a chapbook of poetry. Red works in a bakery and is…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings, presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev, continue as an internet radio show on Shady Pines Radio. Huge thanks to Shady Pines Media for providing us with this platform to share our poetry. Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. To submit your audio recordings of poems for our show send them to wordlightspoetry@gmail.com. Please introduce yourself, tell the listeners how to find your work online and read a poem or two, under 7 minutes. You can also submit your poetry albums to our collection to feature on the radio, if you do, please include a link where your album can be…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings! On May 2nd, among others we'll broadcast poems sent in by Greg Bee, Alejandro Jimenez & Jacqueline Suskin! Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings, presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev, continue as an internet radio show on Shady Pines Radio. Huge thanks to Shady Pines Media for providing us with this platform to share our poetry. --- We will be pre-recording the shows on Wednesdays to air on Saturday, since our first two live shows have been prone to tech glitches—so send in your recordings early. Thank you! --- To…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings. You can submit your poetry as an audio recording to us. In the audio recording, please introduce yourself, tell listeners where to find your work online and any other message you want to share, and of course your poems. If you have any virtual events you are a part of feel free to share how to find them. Please make the recording up to 7 minutes and give about 5 seconds of silence at the start and at the end of the recording. Send the recording to wordlightspoetry@gmail.com and if there are any links you want…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tune in this Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. This is our last regular show. We may do more shows or other virtual events if we get enough submissions and general interest in the show. It's been a ride. Stay safe and healthy, friends! -- Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings. You can submit your poetry as an audio recording to us. In the audio recording, please introduce yourself, tell listeners where to find your work online and any other message you want to share, and of course your poems. If you have any virtual events you are a part of feel free to share how to find them. Please make…

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Wordlights Poetry Popup Show ft. Kim Shuck

Honey Latte Cafe 1033 SE Main St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Poetry Popup Show is coming to Honey Latte Cafe on Sunday, September 18th! Come and enjoy a feature by Kim Shuck and bring your poem to our open mic. ~ About Our Feature ~ Kim Shuck is a silly protein. Shuck is solo author of nine books, two prose and seven poetry. She has edited, co-edited, or assistant edited a further eight anthologies of poetry, primarily from around the San Francisco Bay Area. Kim served as the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco and when the pandemic shut down started she organized a poem of the day project through the San Francisco Public Library, featuring street poets, young poets, elder poets and every once in awhile a well known poet. She hosts at least…

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Wordlights Poetry Popup Show ft. Christopher Luna

The 4th Wall 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Poetry Popup Show is returning to The 4th Wall on Sunday, September 25th! Come and enjoy a feature by Christopher Luna and bring your poem to our open mic. ~ About Our Feature ~ Christopher Luna served as the first Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA from 2013-2017. He works as a poet, artist, editor, publisher, and teacher. Luna is the co-host, with Toni Lumbrazo Luna, of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic, a popular reading series at Angst Gallery in Vancouver, WA which eh founded in 20014. Luna is co-founder, with Toni Lumbrazo Luna, of Printed Matter Vancouver, a small press that also provides editing and coaching services to writers. He is the editor of The Work, a monthly poetry newsletter created to inform…

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