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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…

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Book Launch: Black Wings

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

Please join us for the official US release of Sehba Sarwar's novel BLACK WINGS, which was first published in Pakistan in 2004. Revised and updated, this new edition comes courtesy of El Paso's Veliz Books. Don't miss your opportunity to grab a copy of the book that Liliana Valenzuela describes as "a tale of family secrets, independent women, and a period of rapid change in Pakistan and post 9/11 America." Also reading: *** Mohamed Asem, the author of STRANGER IN THE PEN, "a timely real human story in the face of headlines everywhere," according to Oregon ArtsWatch *** Corinne Manning, the Seattle-based writer & editor whose work has appeared in Story Quarterly, The Oxford American, and been recognized as notable in Best American Essays 2016…

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