Reading Series 3
Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United StatesReadings by local and visiting writers: Melissa Amstutz Ally Harris Sascha Krader Rob Schlegel Jay Aquinas Thompson Doors 7 / Reading 7:30
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Marathon reading of Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesBernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day is an "epic poem about a daily routine" (Alice Notley) written in a single day on the winter solstice in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts. On the 40th anniversary of its composition, we'll read the whole book aloud. Listeners are welcome to come and go at will, or stay for the full reading which should take about three hours. Similar events are scheduled around the country on the same day; for a full listing see Becca Klaver's Midwinter Day at 40 page. The readers (in approximate order of appearance) are David Abel, Sam Lohmann, Jen Coleman, Linda Austin, John Beer, Marilyn Stablein, Laura Feldman, Tom DeBeauchamp, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Jesse Morse, Jen Denrow, Bronwen Tate, Emily Kendal Frey, Rodney Koeneke, Seann McCollum,…
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Spare Room Reading Series I
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesFeaturing: Peter Jaeger, Tim Atkins, Rob Schlegel, Norma Cole, James Yeary
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Submission Presents PNW Writers
Yale Union 800 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesSubmission Reading Series presents a PNW-themed reading featuring writers Jamondria Marnice Harris, Quenton Baker, Jessica Mehta, Rob Schlegel, and Ally Harris. The event will also feature local musicians Jamondria Harris, Kevin Holden, and Emma Browne, and some of the sets will blend poetry and music. This event is free and open to the public. Contact: Ally Harris Submission Reading Series presents a PNW-themed AWP offsite reading featuring writers Jamondria Marnice Harris, Quenton Baker, Jessica Mehta, Rob Schlegel, and Ally Harris. The event will also feature local musicians Jamondria Harris, Kevin Holden, and Emma Browne, & some of the sets will blend poetry and music. This event is free & open to the public. Light snacks and booze available for free/by donation. _ _ _ _…
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Grand Slam Poetry (at AWP)
Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesSaturday of AWP at your favorite bar, and mine, the Cardinal Club, Ru (Nina) Puro, Rob Schlegel, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, and MC Hyland read from their latest work. Rob Schlegel's book is IN THE TREE WHERE THE DOUBLE SEX SLEEPS from University of Iowa Press. MC Hyland's book is THE END from Sidebrow. Elizabeth Clark Wessel founded and publishes ARGOS BOOKS, and Ru (Nina) Puro's ELEGY WITH PILOT LIGHT is an Argos chapbook. Her full-length collection is EACH TREE COULD HOLD A NOOSE OR A HOUSE.
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AWP Offsite: Saturday at Crush Bar
Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United StatesPlease join us in Portland for a night of poetry and revelry, with readings by Nomi Stone, Kai Carlson-Wee, John James, Hafizah Geter, Aaron Coleman, Emily Barton Altman, Rob Schlegel, and Cassie Donish! Saturday, March 30 Crush Bar 6:00-7:30 PM NOMI STONE is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Kill Class is based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. KAI CARLSON-WEE is the author of Rail…
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An Evening of Poetry with Rob Schlegel and Katie Peterson
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin us Saturday, April 20 at 7 pm to hear Rob Schlegel and Katie Peterson read from their new collections of poetry. Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing 2009), selected by James Longenbach for the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and January Machine (Four Way Books 2014), selected by Stephanie Burt for the Grub Street National Book Prize. His third collection is In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (University of Iowa Press 2019), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. With the poets Daniel Poppick and Rawaan Alkhatib, he co-edits The Catenary Press. Most recently, he has taught at Whitman College, and in the MFA Program at Portland State University. With calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among…
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Poets Rob Schlegel & Jessica Laser
Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United StatesRob Schlegel stands among the genderless trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel’s In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (University of Iowa) is a tender search for the mother in the father, the poet in the parent, the forest in the human. Sergei Kuzmich From All Sides (Letter Machine) is the debut collection from Jessica Laser, of which poet Margaret Ross says, "The visceral pleasure one experiences reading these poems corresponds to the depth of their ambition: to fathom human feeling – its contradictions, its infinite shifts – and 'see how full of changes change is.'"
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CANCELED – Rob Schlegel reads at PSU
Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student UnionRob Schlegel Rob Schlegel’s third poetry collection, In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (University of Iowa Press, 2019), was chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. He is also the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing, 2009), selected by James Longenbach for the Colorado Prize for Poetry; and January Machine (Four Way Books, 2014), selected by Stephanie Burt for the Grub Street National Book Prize. With the poets Daniel Poppick and Rawaan Alkhatib, Schlegel co-edits The Catenary Press. Most recently, he has taught at Whitman College and Portland State University.
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Night Sky Reading – Poems by Joanna Klink
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesPlease join us for a special reading to celebrate the release of Joanna Klink's new book of poetry, The Nightfields. For the link to access the event, register here. To celebrate the release of The Nightfields, 31 poets and writers will read from "Night Sky," the sequence of short poems that ends the book. Participating writers include: Leni Zumas, Mary Szybist, Rob Schlegel, Spencer Reece, Dana Prescott, D.A. Powell, Cecily Parks, Sameer Pandya, Shelly Oria, Lisa Olstein, Malena Mörling, Honor Moore, Joe Milazzo, Nathan McClain, Lynn Melnick, Youna Kwak, Joanna Klink, Anna Maria Hong, Brenda Hillman, Nick Gulig, Sarah Gridley, Michele Glazer, Annelyse Gelman, Forrest Gander, Amanda Fortini, Shangyang Fang, Timothy Donnelly, John D’Agata, John Beer, David Baker, and Stephanie Adams-Santos. The New York Journal of Books says of The Nightfields: “Klink is…
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