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Wordlights Poetry ft. Chrys Tobey

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, February 8th, we'll have a feature from Chrys Tobey and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Red O'Hare! OUR FEATURE: Chrys Tobey Chrys Tobey’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including the minnesota review, Rattle, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace and The Cincinnati Review. Her poetry has also been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, and featured on Verse Daily. Her first book of poetry, A Woman is a Woman is a Woman is a Woman, was published in 2017 from Steel Toe Books. Chrys teaches for a few colleges and curates Women Writers Against…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Brian S. Ellis

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, February 15th, we'll have a feature from Brian S. Ellis and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Igor Brezhnev! OUR FEATURE: Brian S. Ellis Brian S. Ellis is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Often Go Awry from University of Hell Books. He lives in Portland, Ore. YOUR HOST: Igor Brezhnev Igor Brezhnev is a poet and a book designer among his other sins. He is the founder of Wordlights poetry reading series and of Lightship Press, a small press focused on publishing poetry. Igor has two full length collections of poetry…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Maryam Gabriel-Imam

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, February 22nd, we'll have a feature from Maryam Gabriel-Imam and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Allegra White! OUR FEATURE: Maryam Gabriel-Imam Maryam Gabriel-Imam (pronouns they/she) is an Egyptian poet, scholar, singer-songwriter, translator, disabled performer, and tenderqueer caterpillar. They hold a masters in Middle Eastern Studies from the City University of New York, and they currently teach History at Rosemary Anderson High in Portland, OR. They are also the up-and-coming bilingual drag performer and activist, Baba Yusef. Maryam/Baba is currently working on mixed-media poetry performances incorporating live music, drag and spoken word, breaking the boundaries of who gets to…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Micah Fletcher

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, February 29th, we'll have a feature from Micah Fletcher and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Allegra White! OUR FEATURE: Micah Fletcher Micah Fletcher is a nationally recognized poet and spoken word artist who took first place in Portland Oregon’s city wide youth poetry competition called Verselandia in 2013. YOUR HOST: Allegra White Allegra White is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Allegra's chapbook of poetry On The Backs Of Product Request Forms (2019) explores themes of escapism and humor in the mundane. Her full length poetry collection will be released in 2020 by Lightship Press. She studied English…

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Slamlandia Semi Finals ft. Lee Chapman

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

Join us on MARCH 5th for our semi final slam at Rocking Frog Cafe! Doors at 6:00 PM For this one off show, there will not be an open mic and the slam will be closed - so no sign ups! Show begins at 6:30 PM. Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $1-5 suggested donation. This show will determine which four poets move on to our Grand Slam on April 5th. We will see the following eight poets compete for the top four slots: -- Ty Brack -- Red O’Hare -- Stephen Meads -- Space -- Vivian Knezevich -- Sarah Bat -- Josh Gross…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Caroline Holm

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 7th, we'll have a feature from Caroline Holm and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Red O'Hare! OUR FEATURE: Caroline Holm Caroline Holm is a 25 year-old Oregon-based artist and writer. Her poetry touches on love, spirituality and the healing truths found present in the phases and systems of the natural world. She will be performing work from her new book of poems and original illustrations, Woodland, due out this spring. To learn more about her work and book release, visit carolineholmpoetry.com or @carolineholmpoetry on Instagram. YOUR HOST: Red O'Hare Red O'Hare is a Ashkenazi Jewish American poet…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Alejandro Jimenez

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 14th, we'll have a feature from Alejandro Jimenez and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Allegra White! OUR FEATURE: Alejandro Jimenez Alejandro is a multiple-time TEDx Speaker, multiple-time National Poetry Slam Semi-Finalist, and Emmy-nominated writer and poet from Colima, Mexico, living in the US. His work focuses on cultural identity, immigrant narratives, masculinity, memory, and the intersection of them all. His self-published book Moreno. Prieto. Brown. (2017) has sold over 1,000 copies - despite all the typos. More at www.alejandropoetry.com. YOUR HOST: Allegra White Allegra White is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Allegra's chapbook of poetry On…

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Brennan Lucas Staffieri

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 21st, we'll have a feature from Brennan Lucas Staffieri and a long set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Red O'Hare! OUR FEATURE: Brennan Lucas Staffieri Brennan Lucas Staffieri is a poet, playwright, podcaster, and director. He is currently a senior studying creative writing and theatre at Pacific University, and he founded and served as the president of the poetry club there, where he ran workshops and developed poetry programing for the campus. He is in the process of writing his first collection of poems, 41°43.5’ N, 49°56.8’ W, which explores grief aboard the sunken wreck of the RMS Titanic. He…

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CANCELED – Wordlights Poetry ft. Red O’Hare & Nicole Jean Turner

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings are presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, March 28th, we'll have features from Red O'Hare & Nicole Jean Turner and a short set poetry open mic! This show is hosted by Igor Brezhnev! OUR FEATURES: Red O'Hare Red O'Hare is a Ashkenazi Jewish American poet from Oakland, California where she featured twice with Bay Area Generations. A product of Presbyterian missionaries from the Belgian Congo and Eastern European carny folk, Red has been performing poetry for 20 years with varying rates of success. She has recently released a poetry album Seaglass Strange (Lightship Press, 2019) and is currently working on a chapbook of poetry. Red works in a bakery and is…

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tune in every Saturday from 6PM to 7PM at www.shadypinesradio.com to hear poems by poets from Portland and elsewhere. Read more below about the show and submitting your recordings! On May 2nd, among others we'll broadcast poems sent in by Greg Bee, Alejandro Jimenez & Jacqueline Suskin! Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings, presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe and curated by Portland poet Igor Brezhnev, continue as an internet radio show on Shady Pines Radio. Huge thanks to Shady Pines Media for providing us with this platform to share our poetry. --- We will be pre-recording the shows on Wednesdays to air on Saturday, since our first two live shows have been prone to tech glitches—so send in your recordings early. Thank you! --- To…

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