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QUEER PDXpression

Local Lounge 3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us Thursday May 16th at the Local lounge. Sign ups will start at 6:30pm and show is at 7:00 pm. We will have the lovely Andy Lee Anderson as our feature. With a mix authentic vulnerability, relevant truth, and humor, Andy Anderson writes poems that make you want to be their friend. They are author of Hello, My Name is Andy, and their work appears in Deep Overstock Journal. Buy their book at this link: https://www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy Books will also be available at event.

Free

QUEER PDXpression

Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us on May 30th at Crush Bar. Sign ups 6:30 pm Show 7:00 pm $5 dollar suggested donation. All proceeds go towards Bryony Blazes chap book. We are honored to have two features. Xesxa Depentes is a poet and performer living in Portland, OR. it’s the author of the chapbook crying in the sun (txt books, 2017). its work has been published in the recluse, the poetry project newsletter and on the poetry foundation’s harriet blog. Trenna Sharpe is a poet from Tennessee, currently living and writing in Portland, Oregon. Her poems appear in the The Heart's Many Doors, The Tangerine, 5:2:One Magazine, Industrial Lunch, Poetry Miscellany, Incessant Pipe, and The Lifeboat. She's a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for…

Free – $5

Queer PDXpression

Local Lounge 3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Grab a Drink, Grab a Chair, Grab an open mind. this month we have the pleasure of featuring A.Y. Kennedy. A.Y. Kennedy is a queer PDX native looking for meaning in old books and taco platters. She can usually be found writing in her bathtub or upside down at a variety of Circus studios in the surrounding area. the local lounge is ADA accessable $5 suggested donation.

Free – $5

Queer PDXpression

Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

We have a very special treat this month we will have two shows for you lovely babes. please join us on the fifth Thursday of this month in welcoming two very talented Local Queer Writers. We will have a $5 suggested donation along with ADA accessibility. and good vibes are on the house. Cosima Bee Concordia Cosima Bee Concordia is a femme writer and bookseller that enjoys scary movies, transgressive religious iconography, and anything that is kinky and queer. Her writing explores the spaces where erotism and the horrific meet, attempting to plumb the depths of our collective horror and desire for both the bodies of others and ourselves. If you want to follow her work, you can find her instagram @bimbotheory Nastashia Minto Nastashia…

Free – $5

Queer PDXpressions Presents Sometimes You Gotta Say F#!K IT.

Rogue Ales & Spirits - Rogue Hall 1717 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Grab a Drink, Grab a Chair, Grab an Open Mind. We are so excited for our First show at Rogue Hall. We will have a sign up sheet starting at 7:45 pm show will start at 8:00 pm. we also have the pleasure of hosting Nicky

Free

Queer PDXpression

Local Lounge 3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Grab a Drink, Grab a chair, Grab an Open Mind. February isn't always Romance and Flowers somtimes its dark and twisty come share your breakup poems your sad love poems, the things you wished you could of said. We have the pleasure of featuring: The black Acid Queen Bio : " Black Acid Queen is an avant garde retro electro digestion of personal trauma, hedonism, desire, fantasy and comedy. The front, back and side person, Zai Outlaw is a self taught multidisiplinary artist."

Free