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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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From Mother Foucault's website: Join us for Filament’s October reading, with special guest Jason Arias! The PSU writing program will have their usual cast of wonderful MFA readers in addition to Jason, and we’re happy to be hosting them again. See you the 13th! Facebook event here.
From PSU Creative Writing's website: Gabriela Torres Olivares was born in Monterrey, México. She is the author of three collections of short stories: Enfermario (2010), which Reforma named as one of the Best Books of 2010; Incompletario (2007); and Están Muertos (2004). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals, including Vice, Pic-Nic, Playboy, and Luvina. She received a 2015-16 grant from the National Fund for Culture and Arts to complete a novel. Les Figues Press published Enfermario in English (translated by Jennifer Donovan) in 2017. Jennifer Donovan is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Tijuana-San Diego border. Her work addresses the ontology of boundaries and liminal spaces through presence/absence phenomena. She works between literary (writing and translation) and visual practices to grapple with power relationships embedded in…
Diane Williams is the author of nine books of fiction, including The Collected Stories of Diane Williams (Soho Press, 2018). She is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She lives in New York City. Rodney Koeneke is author of the poetry collections Body & Glass (Wave Books, 2018), Etruria (Wave Books, 2014), Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006), and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). An early member of the Flarf collective, he was active in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene until 2006, when he moved to Portland, Oregon. He teaches in the History Department at Portland State University. Monday, November 5 at 6:30pm Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238
Filament features the exciting and innovative work of the graduates in Portland State University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. Join us as we push the boundaries of the expected and encourage new ways of thinking about poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.
Sean Davis is the author of The Wax Bullet War and a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran. He won the Legionnaire of the Year Award from the American Legion in 2015, and the Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader Human Rights Award in 2016. His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the Ted Talk book The Misfit’s Manifesto (Simon and Schuster), the anthology City of Weird (Forest Avenue Press), Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Flaunt Magazine, The Big Smoke, Human the movie, and elsewhere. Matthew Robinson is the author of The Horse Latitudes. He holds an MFA from Portland State University and is the 2016 recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship for Fiction. His writing has appeared in Propeller, Shirley, O-Dark Thirty, Nailed, Gobshite Quarterly, Split Lip,…