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Spare Room reading: Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Phoebe Wayne, & Trevino Brings Plenty

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

Trevino L. Brings Plenty is a poet and musician who lives, works, and writes in Portland, OR. He is singer/songwriter/guitarist for the musical ensemble Ballads of Larry Drake. He has read/performed his work at poetry festivals as far away as Amman, Jordan and close to his home base at Portland's Wordstock Festival. In college, Trevino worked with Primus St. John and Henry Carlile for this poetry work, studied with Tomas Svoboda for music composition, and Jerry Hahn for Jazz guitar. Trevino is an American and Native American; a Lakota Indian born on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA. Some of his work explores the American Indian identity in American culture and how it has through genealogical history affected indigenous peoples in the 21st…

Free – $5

“The Magnificent Field” reading: Poetry by Phoebe Wayne, James Yeary, & Sam Lohmann

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

Part of 1122's Second Annual Holiday Makers Pop Up A launch celebration for Sam Lohmann's new chapbook In a Saint's Ashtray from Jen Tynes' Magnificent Field press, with three local Magnificent Field authors. About the readers:  Phoebe Wayne’s most recent chapbook, Transit, was published by Magnificent Field in the summer of 2019. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, in a house situated between two maples, a hawthorn, a plum tree, and a dogwood. James Yeary is interested in the mitigation of personality for the sake of Martian influence. The new my day is cut and ready to be pasted. His most recent chapbook is Hawai’i (violaceous euphoRia, 2019). Sam Lohmann is a librarian and poet in Vancouver, Washington. His small prose book called In a Saint's Ashtray is just out from The…

Free

Oxeye Reader Portland launch reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room presents a launch reading for Oxeye Reader Issue 1: Portland, OR Sunday, September 27, at 7:00 PM Pacific Time, via Zoom (link TBA on , or DM Sam Lohmann) Featuring: David Abel Chris Ashby Jen Coleman Tom Fisher Jamondria Harris Endi Bogue Hartigan Lorraine Lupo & Paul Maziar Thomas Mowe Phoebe Wayne James Yeary Hosted by Jordan Dunn (publisher) and Sam Lohmann (guest editor) Oxeye Reader (Oxeye Press, Ames IA) is a new print journal published by Jordan Dunn. Each issue focuses on a different place, and issue 1 is Portland.

Free

Spare Room Annual Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein & Jackson Mac Low

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

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a marathon reading IDA  by  Gertrude Stein Pieces o’ Six  by  Jackson Mac Low Sunday, April 30 12:00 pm until finish (probably around 8:00-8:30 pm) Admission free Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The Spare Room Reading Series hosts an annual marathon reading, in which local writers, artists, and friends read aloud one or more booklength texts. This year's marathon features Gertrude Stein's short novel Ida (1945) and Jackson Mac Low's thirty-three "poems in prose"…

Free