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Filament’s October Reading Featuring Alicia Jo Rabins

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

Join us for Filament's October reading, with special guest Alicia Jo Rabins! We have a new cast of talented MFA readers in addition to Alicia, and we're delighted to be back at the IPRC this autumn. "Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life. Rabins’ first collection of poetry, Divinity School, won the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her second collection, Fruit Geode, was published in October 2018 by Augury Books/Brooklyn Arts Press. As a musician and performer, Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about the…

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PSU MFA Program’s Filament Series

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Presenting the exciting and innovative work of the graduates in Portland State University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program! Readers: Mary Haidri Ann Petroliunas Charity Yoro Fiction: Mary Haidri is the author of the play Every Path (La Jolla Playhouse). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Permafrost Magazine, Pigeon Pages, The Molotov Cocktail, Winter Tangerine, Portland Review, Fairy Tale Review, and others. She was the recipient of the 2017 Fairy Tale Review Poetry Award and the 2018 Shadow Award. She is a collaborator of Nettleworks, a theater collective. Find her work at maryhaidri.com Nonfiction: Ann Petroliunas is a current student in PSU’s creative nonfiction writing MFA program and a 2017 graduate of the prose certificate program at the Independent Publishing Resource…

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PSU Creative Writing BFA Student Reading

PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on November 21 to hear BFA students and faculty read from their work! Free and open to all. 🌲☔️🎤✏️ Featuring: Gretchen Adams, Lily Lamadrid, Sam Miller, Anna Stein, and Missi Jarrar. With readings by BFA Faculty: Justin Hocking and Gabe Urza Smith 238

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Filament’s February Reading Featuring Sophia Shalmiyev

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

Join us for Filament's February reading, with special guest Sophia Shalmiyev! Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to NYC in 1990. She is an MFA graduate of Portland State University with a second master's degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Portland with her two children. Mother Winter is her first book. We will have a new cast of talented MFA readers in addition to Sophia, and we're delighted to be at the IPRC for our first reading of 2020!

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PSU’s Filament Reading Series

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us this Friday as we kick off the 2021-21 Filament Reading Series, curated by Portland State MFA writers! 🌈☔️🔥 Featuring special alumni guest Sophia Shalmiyev (MOTHER WINTER) and current MFA students. 🌲❤️ 9/25 at 7pm Pacific. RSVP to ap9 pdx edu for the Zoom link.

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