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[Canceled] Make IRL G!G Workshop: Resolution Writing with Pamela K. Santos

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

The IPRC is in the Willamette Week’s Give!Guide (G!G) this year, an easy path for year-end giving with lots of incentives for your generosity. We’re offering a number of special gifts and workshops as part of our campaign. Poet Pamela K. Santos will lead a generative resolution-writing activity. All ages welcome. To pre-register, make a G!G donation and email alley@iprc.org.

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Free Poetry Reading featuring Jessica Mehta

Perks of Art 384 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United States

Join poets Jessica Mehta, Pamela Santos, and Ally Harris for an hour of poetry and literary love. Emceed by Zoe LaHaie. Free and open to the public. Wine and coffee available for purchase. Ally Harris is the author of the poetry chapbooks Dispersal (The Song Cave, 2019) and Her Twin Was After Me (Slim Princess, 2014). She lives in Portland, Oregon where she curates Submission Reading Series. Pamela K. Santos is a Pinayorker artist creating multilingual narratives on diasporic identity and hyphenated selves in America’s whitest city. Pamela co-founded Portland’s first Winter Poetry Festival and currently curates the Sari Not Sari installation series. A 2019 recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship, her poetry appears in Tayo Magazine, Anomaly, Newtown Literary, Stoked Words, and the Unchaste…

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Wendy Chin Tanner, Jennifer Perrine, and Pamela Santos

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

A reading featuring the poets Wendy Chin Tanner, Jennifer Perrine, and Pamela Santos Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collections Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards and Anyone Will Tell You (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), and co-author of the graphic novel American Terrorist (A Wave Blue World). She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, and co-founder at A Wave Blue World. Jennifer Perrine is a 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient. She is the author of three books of poetry: No Confession, No Mass (2015), In the Human Zoo (2011), and The Body Is No Machine (2007). Her poems have been described as “muscular,” “hard-working,” “disciplined,” “grimly witty,”…

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Free

Sobrang OPM! Original Pilipinx Merienda of Filipino Food & Writers

Tryst Bar 19 SW 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Sobra means extra / Filipinx anywhere together is extra af! An almost-midnight merienda party of Filipinx writers. Food! Karaoke! Open Mic! Free door admission. Socialize over cocktails and mocktails. Filipino menu specials include lumpia, sisig burgers, adobo chicken fried rice. Gratitude Open Mic where readers share favorite Filipinx writers. Emceed by Pamela K. Santos, featuring writers from Bitter Melon Collective, Roseminda Nabehet and Lilian Ongelungel, guests Asa Drake, and beats by Nathaniel Jams. More TBA. See http://bartryst.com/ for vegetarian options; accepts cash or card. Contact: Pamela K. Santos

Free

.:LOOP:. Reading and Performance by Corporeal Writing Mammals

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Please come witness Corporeal Writing participants read along with me and Lidia Yuknavitch at Corporeal Center on Sat, 4/20 from 5-8pm. You can find us at 510 SW 3rd Ave Suite 101, in the old Postal building just across the Morison bridge and in the same bldg as Killler Burger. We don’t call our comrades students because that top down jam just isn’t how we roll. Just so you know, no one will be turned away for inability to pay at the door, but we are asking you to consider $5 or so, so we can keep offering a space for anyone to write for free on Tues-Fri, 12-6pm. Love .:LOOP:. Domi Our phenomenal readers/performers are: Dot Hearn Pamela K. Santos Annie Gudger Jewels Bethann…

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Free – $5

Survival Stories

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories -- A Quarterly Reading Series We welcome feminist readers from across the gender spectrum and from every intersection sharing their written work in narrative tapestry. We hope to be antidepressant, hope-peddling, boundary-breaking, multicultural, and oriented towards action. Our inaugural reading theme is "water." Doors at 6:30pm. Our first readers will be: Anya Pearson, Domi J Shoemaker, Flint Flint, Kate Gray, Margaret Malone, Mary Wysong-Haeri, Pamela K. Santos, and Ravyn Gerri Stanfield Hosted by Marissa Korbel.

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Pamela K. Santos

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday September 28th, we'll have a feature from Pamela K. Santos, two mini-features from Michelle Ruiz Keil & Jennifer Dawson, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Pamela K. Santos Pamela K. Santos is a writer and conceptual artist weaving multilingual narratives from diasporic lineages. A 2019 recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation award, Oregon Literary Fellowship, and Mineral School residency, her poetry appears in Tayo Magazine, Anomaly, Newtown Literary, Stoked Words, and the Unchaste Anthology. Pamela co-founded Portland’s Winter Poetry Festival (its second year coming this December). You can find more information about Pamela at pamelaksantos.com and follow her on Instagram at @fistsofmanilamae and on Facebook…

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5 x 5

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

It’s that time again! Thursday 10/24 7pm, come out for the next edition of 5x5! This month featuring six rad poets sharing their newest work @cardinalclub @katslarue @fistsofmanilamae @__k___dog__ @deepspacemime @mademoiselledelphine @ayearofstrangehours Stop by and say hi

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Corporeal Writing: Space Stations: A Module for BIPOC Writers by Pamela K. Santos

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

MODULE ONE: Ask The Cup & Who Will Answer? LED BY: Pamela K. Santos WHERE: Online (via Zoom) WHEN: 4 weeks, 7 sessions, meeting Sundays and Tuesdays Aug 9 to Aug 30 (details on meeting times below) Space Stations are a pilot project series facilitated by Pamela K. Santos as artistic practice incubators for BIPOC writers meeting in 4-week modules around themes of introspection and self-inquiry. “What is your relationship to your art?” is the central question guiding the twice-weekly virtual sessions and self-directed exercises. Space Stations envision cooperative communities (“waystations” in the galaxies) that writers can drop in based on needs and shape how to support each other in literary ecosystems of our own creation. Ask The Cup & Who Will Answer? What is…

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Artist Statement As Manifesto Workshop w/ Pamela K. Santos

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WITH: Pamela K. Santos WHAT: 3 hour online workshop (with frequent bio breaks for every hour) WHEN: Sat., March 13, 2021, from 11AM to 2PM PST WHERE: Zoom. Meeting ID provided in advance after purchase COST: $125 for workshop, $60 for consultation. See details below. Do you feel challenged by the prospect of describing your writing? Do you need guidance on what an artist statement is for writers? Are you trying to create an artist website and want to include your philosophy on writing? Open to writers of all experience levels, Pamela will share her approach to crafting artist statements as manifesto, love letter to her art, and bold declaration of her place in literary community. The craft lecture will include examples from her applications…

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