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Winter Poetry Festival

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

Warm your soul during the darkest days of winter at the first Winter Poetry Fest! We are crafting this event to be an inspirational refuge from the chaos of the holiday season. It will be full of diverse, local poets, chapbooks and broadsides for sale their authors; writing workshops and readings. In addition, there will be hands-on activities, writing games, a holiday card print-pull, cut-up poetry button making and more! Buy last minute holiday gifts for all your artsy friends while directly supporting writers, hide from your in-laws, feed your creativity with writing prompts and games, feed your mouth with delicious snacks, write a poem to put on the Poetry Tree and celebrate the solstice with your creative family <3. Hosted by the Independent Publishing…

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Free

Slamlandia Valentine’s Literary Arts Show ft. Sage Lilac

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on FEBRUARY 14TH for our second Thursday Poetry Open Mic and Slam! This will be our Valentine's Day show! Bring your love poems! Bring your anti-love poems! Bring your heartbreak poems! Bring your odes to how you'd love to marry mac and cheese! Bring your Valentine's Day sucks poems! We're excited to hear them all! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. No door admission. We will have a spotlight performance from the astounding Sage Lilac! Sage Lilac is a trans…

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Slamlandia Grand Slam ft. Roxy Allen

Guilder Cafe 2393 NE Fremont St., Portland, OR, United States

Join us in MARCH for our GRAND SLAM at Guilder! Our Grand Slam will determine which four poets will be on the 2019 Slamlandia Team, and will represent Slamlandia at The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam here in Portland this summer. Doors at 6:00 PM Show begins at 6:30 PM. **No open mic this show** Guilder 2393 NE Fremont St Portland, OR 97213 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $1-5 suggested donation. We will have an spotlight performance from the wonderful Roxy Allen! Roxy Jane Allen is a queer sex worker with an actual heart of gold. She is also a comedian, artist, body positive activist, and in recovery. A five-time Eugene Poetry Slam Champion,…

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Free

Wordlights

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

Wordlights is a poetry, spoken word and music showcase, presented by NovaPDX & Rocking Frog Cafe, and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. We will have features from three poets—Ken Yoshikawa, Sage Lilac & Kate Leddy, as well as a showcase of 10 performers. KEN YOSHIKAWA Ken Yoshikawa is a shin-issei/first generation half-Japanese American poet-actor from Portland, OR. He has been active in the Portland Poetry Slam community since 2014. In his theatre career he’s appeared at the Portland Center Stage in “Mojada, A Medea in Los Angeles”, and at the Portland Playhouse in “You for Me for You”. Some notable roles include Arjun in “Chitra, the Girl Prince”, (NW Children’s Theatre), Chimney Sweep/Ensemble in “Mary Poppins” (NW Children’s Theatre), and Malvolio/Antonio in “Twelfth Night” (Oregon Adventure…

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Free

Nailed Reading

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Join us as we celebrate some of the spectacular writers and poets who have published with us! Featuring performances by: Robert Lashley Sage Lilac Robb Piggot Domi Shoemaker Jackie Shannon Hollis Doors open at 6:30 pm Readings will begin at 7 pm (*doors close at 7:30 pm*) Afterwards please hang around, chat, and enjoy some refreshments as we bring the local branch of our online literary community into actual space! Drinks and light snacks provided (with suggested donation) OPEN TO ALL!

Free

Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Sage Lilac

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away. We will have a feature from Sage Lilac! More about Sage: Sage Lilac is a trans poet and heavy metal vocalist based out of Portland, OR. She got her start in poetry just after high school by winning both the SpeakNOW Poetry Slam in 2012 and then the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition in 2013. Since then, she has lead many after school programs and in-school residencies through the Nature of Words literary center, shared the stage with renowned performance poet Buddy Wakefield, has had her poems arranged for performance by opera singers, been a PDX Grand Slam finalist…

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Free – $5

Bigfoot Regional Benefit Show

Cider Riot 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us in celebrating what our region has to offer in Poetry! We are having a show to get folks excited about the Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam coming to Portland in July! Cider Riot! 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR 97232 There will be a featured performance from Clementine von Radics! There will be group and individual performances by Bella Brianna Grisby Avery Gadling Skyler Reed Robert Lashley Nani Jane Belinda Julia Gaskill and Sage Lilac There will be exciting raffle prizes! 5-15 dollars (sliding scale) get you into to this amazing event! If you pay 10 or more you some raffle tickets with your entry! Accessibility info: Cider Riot is a 21+ venue so unfortunately no minors are allowed. There is delicious cider and…

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$5 – $10

Slamlandia July Literary Arts Show ft. The Slamlandia Team

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on JULY 11TH for our second Thursday Poetry Open Mic and Slam! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. No door admission. We will have a spotlight performance from this year's wonderful Slamlandia Team - Nani Jones, Jane Belinda, Julia Gaskill, and Sage Lilac. ★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★ The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is a great way to share your wonderful poetry! You can share 1-2 poems…

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Free

WoWPS Finals feat. Leyna Rynearson and Robyn Bateman

Tiny's Coffee - NE MLK Jr 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the Women of the World Poetry Slam finals! We will determine who is representing the Portland Poetry Slam at WoWPS this March in Dallas, TX! There is a 8 dollar suggested donation for this event, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. We will have featured performances from Leyna Rynearson and Robyn Bateman! For the competition, the top six poets from our qualifying season are competing! They are: Meghan Bell Julia Gaskill Brianna Grisby Sage Lilac Red O’Hare and Chelsea Sieg Do not miss out on this amazing competition! We will be at our venue, Tiny's Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is welcome. We do not censor our mic except for instances of hate-speech. Please…

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Free – $8
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