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Airstream Poetry Festival

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, United States

From Mother Foucault's website: October 19-21, join publishers, authors, and plain old book lovers for potlucks in the pavilion, parlor games, readings, workshops, walks by the sea, and maybe even some karaoke. It's our 4th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival (prose and prints also welcome). Workshops and Presentations by: Alicia Jo Rabins, Anis Mojgani, Coast No Coast, Entre Rios Books, Expedition Press, Kisha Schlegel, Melissa Stein, NW Film Forum, Rob Schlegel, Sophia Shalmiyev, Tavern Books, University of Hell Press, and more! Tickets for the weekend's activities: $15 Available online: https://motherfoucaultsbookshop.brownpapertickets.com To book lodging at the Sou'wester, call (360) 642-2542

$15

Book Launch: 40th Anniversary Edition of Killing Floor by Ai

Portland Union Station 800 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us in the Metropolitan Lounge of Portland’s Union Station to celebrate our 40th Anniversary Edition of Ai’s groundbreaking second poetry collection, KILLING FLOOR! Featuring a host of readers, including Stephanie Adams-Santos and Zachary Schomburg. Free drinks and snacks. Books for sale. Open to the public. PLUS: Tavern has commissioned poet/artist/publisher Zachary Schomburg to create an original hand-sketched portrait of Ai on the occasion of KILLING FLOOR’s 40th anniversary. Zach will be selling prints of this gorgeous portrait at the event. They’re limited edition, so get one while you can! *Parking free after 7pm. *Enter station through lobby and follow signs to the Metro Lounge. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ai, who described herself as 1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw-Chickasaw, 1/4 Black, and 1/16 Irish, was born in…

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Tavern Books Wrolstad Series Reading

Lagunitas Community Room 237 NE Broadway St #300, Portland, OR, United States

Join Tavern Books for a celebration of the authors published through our Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series, a program that champions work by young female poets. Hear readings by Wrolstad poets Megan Levad (Why We Live in the Dark Ages, 2015 and What Have I to Say to You, 2018), Ruth Madievsky (Emergency Brake, 2016), Elsbeth Pancrazi (Full Body Pleasure Suit, 2017), and Wendy Chen (Unearthings, 2018). Cheap beer, pizza, and a special chapbook-anthology with new work by the Wrolstad poets will be available! Contact: Natalie Garyet Readings by: Wendy Chen (Unearthings) Wendy Chen is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Most Promising Young Poet Prize, and fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her…

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Free

AWP Offsite Event: Tavern Books 10th Anniversary Celebration!

Portland Union Station 800 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate 10 years of Tavern Books in style at Portland's historic Union Station. Join us in the beautiful first-class passenger lounge for readings on the hour, drinks, and giveaways. Meet and mingle with Tavern editors, authors, translators, and board members. The night will be a special tribute to translation. Free and open to the public. Please enter through main lobby of train station and follow signs to the Metropolitan Lounge. Portland Union Station in the Metropolitan Lounge 800 NW 6th Ave. #255 Portland, OR 97209 United States (map) TRANSLATOR READINGS ON THE HOUR: Mauricio Espinoza (translator from the Spanish of The Fire’s Journey by Eunice Odio) Mauricio Espinoza is a poet, scholar, and journalist from Costa Rica. He is assistant professor of Spanish and Latin…

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Refugee and Migrant Rights Fundraiser

Dig A Pony 736 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR, United States

A combination reading and concert event raising funds for Team Brownsville and the McAllen Immigrant Respite Center, with poems by Kim Stafford, Armin Tolentino, Sophia Shalmiyev, Ana Maria Ferreira, and Gwendolyn Morgan, as well as live music, and raffles for donated good from Literary Arts, the IPRC, Tavern Books, Zig Zag Wanderer, Holocene, and more.

Free

Mother Foucault’s 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, United States

Join us at the 5th Annual Airstream Poetry Festival at Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, Washington! October 25-27, join publishers, authors, and plain old book lovers for potlucks in the pavilion, readings, workshops, walks by the sea, and maybe even some karaoke at the Sou’wester Lodge and Trailer Park in Seaview, Washington. Featuring: Alejandro de Acosta, John Beer, Gerald Costanzo, Karolinn Fiscaletti, 2019 Airstream Fellow Harrison Harb, Anis Mojgani, Flavia Rocha, Ed Skoog, Rose Swartz. We are proud to announce the Winner of our Poetry Fellowship this year is Harrison Harb! As the 4th Annual Airstream Poetry Fellow, Harrison will spend the week prior to the festival in the Sou’wester’s Potato Bug trailer and share his work at the Saturday night reading. Tickets for the festival: Tickets…

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$20

Publication Fair 2019

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

FREE & open to the PUBLIC This annual event features work from local small presses and artists, such as: Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books Anthology Bookseller Big Big Wednesday Container Corps Division Leap Floating World Comics Future Tense Books Gobshite Quarterly/GobQ Books Know your City Monograph Bookworks Octopus Books Passages Bookshop Perfect Day Publishing PNCA Tavern Books Tin House Two Plum Press University of Hell Press

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