A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
Our next Zoom open mic is Dec 17th!! If you’d like a holiday writing prompt/s, think about “passion” and “support,” two things we all thrive with. Zoom code: 878 8742 4707 Password: poetry
Do you have a song, poem, spoken word piece, or piece of visual art you’ve been working on? Come share it with a like-minded crew of Imago folks & friends! Are you a really great audience member? We want you too! Friday, August 13th*, from 7-9pm in the Loft of the Ankeny building. *No bad luck, just some chill fun & new friends Open sign-ups for a 5-minute performance slot are from 7-7:20pm. Show starts at 7:30pm. Light snacks provided. Questions? Email arts@idcpdx.com
Do you have a song, poem, spoken word piece, or piece of visual art you’ve been working on? Come share it with a like-minded crew of Imago folks & friends! Are you a really great audience member? We want you too! Friday, September 10th, from 7-9pm in the Loft of the Ankeny building. Open sign-ups for a 5-minute performance slot are from 7-7:20pm. Show starts at 7:30pm. Light snacks provided. Questions? Email arts@idcpdx.com
Join us on October 28th, on the patio at The Local Lounge, Sign ups will start at 7:30 and show at 8ish. This Month we have the honor of Featuring Tolly. Tolly is a non-binary musician, Drag artist, writer, and shit starter who’s lived in Portland for 5 1/2 years… which is 5 1/2 years too long. They enjoy chicken tenders over chicken nuggets, regurgitating reality TV moments out of context, and praying for the downfall of America. Upon request to help make our show fully accessible we will have the pleasure of partnering with Fingers Crossed interpreting if you need assistance please contact Fingerscrossedinterpreting@gmail.com ahead of time to schedule an interpreter
Do you have a song, poem, spoken word piece, or piece of visual art you’ve been working on? Come share it with a like-minded crew of Imago folks & friends! Are you a really great audience member? We want you too! Friday, November 5th, from 7-9pm in the Loft of the Ankeny building. Open sign-ups for a 5-minute performance slot are from 7-7:20pm. Show starts at 7:30pm. Questions? Email arts@idcpdx.com
Rose City Book Pub is thrilled to host Christine Marie’s Poetic Sound Healing Experience. Poetic Author & Healer Christine Marie brings a captivating spoken word performance that takes you on a journey of personal love & loss, self-healing, empowerment and spiritual truth. Along with reciting excerpts from her self-published book, Breaking Free, she leads you through a meditative sound healing experience that will empower you to connect to your own story & inspire you to embark on your own self-healing journey. Christine Marie’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/christinemarieheals Christine Marie’s Website: www.christinemarieheals.com
Blackness, whiteness and otherness: words, when strung together, that may cause discomfort and awkwardness. Join us in that discomfort this August as we meditate on the voice of the Black Woman. The poetry and the spoken word African-American Women will guide us in dialogue to hear from our community differently, to know one another differently, to see reconciliation differently. Format: Black Poets Society is a two session series with readers sharing a broad range of historic and modern poetry and spoken word by Black Women. Attendees will have a chance to respond in writing, discuss and unpack in table conversations and participate in a larger group conversation. Each part is a standalone event, but will weave together thematically. You should come to these events if…
Blackness, whiteness and otherness: words, when strung together, that may cause discomfort and awkwardness. Join us in that discomfort this August as we meditate on the voice of the Black Woman. The poetry and the spoken word African-American Women will guide us in dialogue to hear from our community differently, to know one another differently, to see reconciliation differently. Format: Black Poets Society is a two session series with readers sharing a broad range of historic and modern poetry and spoken word by Black Women. Attendees will have a chance to respond in writing, discuss and unpack in table conversations and participate in a larger group conversation. Each part is a standalone event, but will weave together thematically. You should come to these events if…
Blackness, whiteness and otherness: words, when strung together, that may cause discomfort and awkwardness. Join us in that discomfort this August as we meditate on the voice of the Black Woman. The poetry and the spoken word African-American Women will guide us in dialogue to hear from our community differently, to know one another differently, to see reconciliation differently. Format: Black Poets Society is a two session series with readers sharing a broad range of historic and modern poetry and spoken word by Black Women. Attendees will have a chance to respond in writing, discuss and unpack in table conversations and participate in a larger group conversation. Each part is a standalone event, but will weave together thematically. You should come to these events if…
Hey Babes Come Grab a Open chair a open beer and an open mind we will be at Santé bar this Thursday September, 29th Sign ups at 7:30 show at 8ish ASL interpreter available upon request. A Dynamic Space for words and visual art to Live, be, and own Queer identity