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NW Micropress Fair After Party

The Cleaners at Ace Hotel 403 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Twenty six of the Northwest's many of the smallest, newest, and best literary presses, magazines, and producers have been selling books all day and are ready to cut loose and relax! We're flipping the room from the Northwest Micropress Fair (doors closed from 6:00 to 7:30) and re-opening with a cash bar and so many fantastic readers from across the Northwest. Three sets + w/ film and music after — 8:00 PM Rena Priest Tara K Shepersky Cosper Onstott Alexandra Matthaw Rosenboom Aileen Keown Vaux Paul E Nelson Simone Person Nadine Maestas Debby Dodds Deborah Woodard Alex Gallo-Brown 9:00 Samuel Snoek-Brown Melinda Mueller Mary Margaret Alvarado Benjamin Gorman John Burgess Felicity Fenton Kate Ristau Natasha Moni T.J Fuller Alex Vigue Christina Butcher 10:00 Paul Sheprow…

Free

In-Store Reading: Tara Shepersky: Tell the Turning

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poet Tara Shepersky for an in-store reading from her new collection, Tell the Turning. About Tell the Turning: Sometimes a thought, or a whisper, or a dispatch, Tell the Turning unfolds as lyrical journal, hymnal, and almanac all rolled into one volume, with its three poem cycles interweaving thematic rhythms and threads. It is an ambulatory archive, paced to poet Tara K. Shepersky's steps and treks along a stretch of the Pacific coast, from Oregon up to Washington and down to California. Then there’s a circadian and seasonal rhythm, with Tara attuned to the tug of moon on tide and tide on poet; the balance (and present-day imbalance) of the seasons; and the slumbers and awakenings of the earth and its…

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