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Small Press Residency – Propeller Books

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

Rocking Frog Cafe & NovaPDX present the Small Press Residency program. Every month, meet the people from local small press publishers involved in making great books. During the residency you can purchase the featured press’ books at Rocking Frog Cafe and meet the people behind them. This month our featured press is Propeller Books (www.propellerbooks.com). Join us on Thursday, November 21st, for the last event for Propeller Books small press residency, hosted by Lucas Bernhardt, the guests for this evening are: Daneen Bergland, Ally Harris, and Harper Quinn. ~ Lucas Bernhardt holds MAs in English and in Writing from Portland State University, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He manages the Portland State University Writing Center and is…

Free

Book Launch for Kirsten Ihns’s sundaey

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

Join us Friday February 28th at 7pm at Mother Foucault's Bookshop for a release party for Kirsten Ihns’s debut poetry collection, sundaey. Kirsten will be reading alongside John Beer. Kirsten Ihns earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently a PhD student and Neubauer Presidential Fellow in English Literature at the University of Chicago. John Beer is the author of Lucinda & The Waste Land and Other Poems, and edited Poems (1962-1997) by Robert Lax. He teaches at Portland State University. sundaey will be the first title in the Propeller Contemporary Poetry Series.

Free

Propeller Books Presents

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

*This is an in-person event. Masks and proof of vaccination are required Join Propeller Books for an evening of readings from: Abraham Smith Jan Verberkmoes Ashley Yang Thompson Ashley Elizabeth Chambers

Free