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Since When: A Memoir in Pieces Book launch and reading

Reed College - Eliot Hall Chapel 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR, United States

Please join Spare Room, the Cooley Gallery, and the family of Bill Berkson as we celebrate the publication of Since When: A Memoir in Pieces, out now from Coffee House Press. There will be a reception at 5:45 pm, with readings to begin at 6:30. Copies of the memoir will be available for purchase. Readers will include: Connie Lewallen     Nina Lewallen Hufford Léonie Guyer     David Abel James Yeary     Paul Maziar Jen Coleman     Lisa Radon Sam Lohmann     Chris Ashby Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of bold-face names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man…

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A Marathon Reading of Robert Duncan’s ‘Ground Work’

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Each winter, the Spare Room reading series hosts a marathon reading of a long work. This year, we are observing the centenary of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), a central figure of Bay Area poetry associated with the Berkeley Renaissance and Black Mountain groups. We'll read Duncan's last two collections, Ground Work: Before the War (1984) and Ground Work: In the Dark (1988), which together form a single work, reprinted in a single volume by New Directions in 2006. The reading is free; come and go as you please or stay for the whole thing! There will be a beverage table (BYO and sharing encouraged). More about Robert Duncan: Michael Palmer's preface to Ground Work (2006) Audio from Duncan's readings and lectures on PennSound Readers, in approximate…

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Spare Room Reading Series II

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Featuring: Sam Lohmann, Chris Ashby, Jamondria Harris, CE Putnam, David Abel

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Spanish Translator & Author Jeff Diteman

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Spanish Translator & Author Jeff Diteman will read from his work. Jeff Diteman will read from his translation of the novel The Anarchist Who Shared My Name by Oulipo Member Pablo Martín Sánchez. Diteman will discuss the history of constraint-based literature and its complex relationship with politics and philosophy, referencing works by Oulipians Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Anne Garréta, and Michèle Audin. Jeff is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, specializing in Latin American and francophone literature. His work has been published by Drunken Boat, Nailed Magazine, Inventory, Jacobin, McSweeney’s, and Deep Vellum. Lena Walker will present her translations of Russian poetry, including poems written in a Soviet prison by Yuli Daniel, a song by the dissident Vladimir Vissotsky,…

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“The Magnificent Field” reading: Poetry by Phoebe Wayne, James Yeary, & Sam Lohmann

1122 Gallery 1122 SE 88th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Part of 1122's Second Annual Holiday Makers Pop Up A launch celebration for Sam Lohmann's new chapbook In a Saint's Ashtray from Jen Tynes' Magnificent Field press, with three local Magnificent Field authors. About the readers:  Phoebe Wayne’s most recent chapbook, Transit, was published by Magnificent Field in the summer of 2019. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, in a house situated between two maples, a hawthorn, a plum tree, and a dogwood. James Yeary is interested in the mitigation of personality for the sake of Martian influence. The new my day is cut and ready to be pasted. His most recent chapbook is Hawai’i (violaceous euphoRia, 2019). Sam Lohmann is a librarian and poet in Vancouver, Washington. His small prose book called In a Saint's Ashtray is just out from The…

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A Marathon Reading of Ronald Johnson’s ARK

Chris Ashby's Apartment 615 SE 18th Avenue, Apt. 1 (not A), Portland, OR, United States

Each winter, the Spare Room reading series hosts a marathon reading of a long work. In 2020 we’ll be reading Ronald Johnson’s long poem ARK, which was written over about 25 years and published in sections between 1980 and 1996 (and reprinted in 2013 by Flood Editions). Guy Davenport wrote: "ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them." Free.…

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Oxeye Reader Portland launch reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room presents a launch reading for Oxeye Reader Issue 1: Portland, OR Sunday, September 27, at 7:00 PM Pacific Time, via Zoom (link TBA on , or DM Sam Lohmann) Featuring: David Abel Chris Ashby Jen Coleman Tom Fisher Jamondria Harris Endi Bogue Hartigan Lorraine Lupo & Paul Maziar Thomas Mowe Phoebe Wayne James Yeary Hosted by Jordan Dunn (publisher) and Sam Lohmann (guest editor) Oxeye Reader (Oxeye Press, Ames IA) is a new print journal published by Jordan Dunn. Each issue focuses on a different place, and issue 1 is Portland.

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Poets’ Benefit for PWNW—The dance moves on and prose limps hopelessly behind.

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a virtual reading & performance to benefit Performance Works Northwest Celebrating 20 years of Portland's most inspiring independent movement and performance venue, Performance Works NW (and 19 years of Spare Room), past and present members of the Spare Room reading series collective will come together from diverse locations to read and perform poems and things. Mark Owens, Maryrose Larkin, Laura Feldman, Chris Piuma, David Abel, Joseph Bradshaw, Sam Lohmann, Endi Hartigan, James Yeary, Jen Coleman, Chris Ashby Organized by David Abel of Passages Bookshop Pay what you will. Suggested $8-$25 If you need a free ticket email us at info@pwnw-pdx.org. ZOOM LINK TO THE EVENT WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU

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Spare Room Annual Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein & Jackson Mac Low

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a marathon reading IDA  by  Gertrude Stein Pieces o’ Six  by  Jackson Mac Low Sunday, April 30 12:00 pm until finish (probably around 8:00-8:30 pm) Admission free Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The Spare Room Reading Series hosts an annual marathon reading, in which local writers, artists, and friends read aloud one or more booklength texts. This year's marathon features Gertrude Stein's short novel Ida (1945) and Jackson Mac Low's thirty-three "poems in prose"…

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Marathon reading: Keats & Boone

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room Reading Series presents our annual marathon reading: Endymion by John Keats & Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone Sunday, April 7, 2024 10:00 am until we finish (probably around 6:00-7:00 pm) Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur St., Suite 660, Portland Free admission; come and go as you please Readers include: David Abel, Chris Ashby, Chris Daniels, Laura Feldman, Rodney Koeneke, Sam Lohmann, Seann McCollum, Joe Safdie, Andrew Simon, & James Yeary. ============================================================== Also Upcoming at Passages April 3      Reading by Chris Daniels. Tom De Beauchamp, & Flavia Rocha ==============================================================

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