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Kelsey Street AWP Reading

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

JOIN KELSEY STREET, CHAX, EOAGH, TINFISH, BLACK RADISH AND POG in Portland at Passages Books. Featured Kelsey Street readers are Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam, Anna Morrison, Mg Roberts and Hazel White The full lineup for the reading is: 6:00–7:15 pm Charles Alexander, Robert Mittenthal, David Abel, Kit Robinson, Sarah Rosenthal, Trace Peterson, Max Wolf Valerio, Susan M. Schultz, Tim Dyke, Jordan Scott, Steven Salmoni, Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam 7:45–9:00 pm Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand, MG Roberts, Samuel Ace, James Maughn, Barbara Tomash, Jesse Nissim, Anastacia Renee, Jaimie Gusman, Monica Ortega Ortiz, Anna Morrison, Hazel White, Sarah Riggs

Free

AWP Offsite at Studio Faro: Augury Books, Belladonna*, & Noemi

Studio Faro 420 SW Washington St #302, Portland, OR, United States

Join Augury Books, Belladonna*, & Noemi Press for an offsite AWP reading. Free and open to all. Light refreshments available & books for sale. Readers: T'ai Freedom Ford is a New York City high school English teacher and Cave Canem Fellow. Her second collection, & more black, is due out from Augury Books in spring of 2019. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in the African American Review, Apogee, Bomb Magazine, Calyx, Drunken Boat, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Kweli, Obsidian, Poetry, Tin House, and others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip- Hopand Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. Her first collection, how to get over, won…

Free

Our Weather Our Sea: Samuel Ace and Marcus Lund

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

Join Samuel Ace and Marcus Lund on May 17 at 7 pm to celebrate two new books from Samuel: Meet Me There, a reissue of two early works from Belladonna, and Our Weather Our Sea, a new collection from Black Radish. Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, including Our Weather O­ur Sea (Black Radish Books, 2019) and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal Texts, 2019). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared…

Free

Fonograf Editions Five-Year Anniversary

Oregon Contemporary (formerly DISJECTA) 8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

(image by Adie Bovee) Celebration & Fundraiser With performances by Eileen Myles, Samuel Ace, Allison Cobb, Brandi Katherine Herrera, and Sara Jaffe and Auctioning print and analog delights from our friends: milkweed editions, Canarium Books, Fence, Albina Music Trust, Poetry Foundation, and many more.

Free