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Oracle: Poetry & the Occult, an “off-sight” AWP event

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Join us in a safe, inclusive space for oracular rumination by poets who practice craft and craft! There will poems, bar breaks, pub food and drink, a back patio, invocations, and a ritual at midnight for healing in the literary community. EVA BERTOGLIO is an artist, writer and lifelong Oregonian. Her work can be found in 50 Haikus, Oregon's Best Emerging Poets, Pom Pom Lit, and the chapbook First Winter of Persephone. She lives in Portland, OR LISA CICCARELLO is the author of At Night (Black Ocean, 2015), as well as several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, The Academy of American Poets, Denver Quarterly, the PEN Poetry Series, Handsome, & The Volta, among others. She adores gothic mysteries, candle-making & creating literary…

Free

Fonograf Listening Party: John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre & More Poets [POSTPONED]

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Join us Friday, Feb. 24th for a listening party in celebration of Fonograf's first archival LP, John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre, 1976. Readings by Sarah Bartlett, Natalie Garyet, Emmi Greer, and Karolinn Fiscaletti, each will be reading a favorite Ashbery poem, along with a few of their own poems. Drinks, records, books, etc. 7 PM

Free

Fonograf Listening Party: John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre & More Poets

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Take two: 7 PM on March 3rd at Dorsa Brevia in downtown PDX. Readings by Sarah Bartlett, Natalie Garyet, Emmi Greer, and Karolinn Fiscaletti. Hope to see you for real this time! Join us Friday, March 3rd for a listening party in celebration of Fonograf‘s first archival LP, John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre, 1976. Readings by Sarah Bartlett, Natalie Garyet, Emmi Greer, and Karolinn Fiscaletti, each will be reading a favorite Ashbery poem, along with a few of their own poems. Drinks, records, books, etc. 7 PM

Free