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!

The Last Stand Featuring Sean Davis

Wildwood Saloon 1955 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

Here we go again folks! Join us for The Last Stand Featuring Sean Davis on Monday 11/5/18! Sean Davis is the author of The Wax Bullet War, a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, and the winner of the Legionnaire of the Year Award from the American Legion in 2015 and the recipient of the Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award for 2016. His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the Ted Talk Book, The Misfit’s Manifesto (Simon and Schuster), Forest Avenue Press anthology City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Flaunt Magazine, The Big Smoke, Human the movie, and much more. Sean can also be found fighting those fires we see in the news. I (Garrett) am hosting this month and asked Sean…

Free

Third Monday Poetry at Wildwood

Wildwood Saloon 1955 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

Last Stand at the Wildwood Saloon poetry reading Signup at 8pm and reading starts at 8:30

Free

Third Monday Poetry at Wildwood

Wildwood Saloon 1955 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

Last Stand at the Wildwood Saloon poetry reading Signup at 8pm and reading starts at 8:30

Free

The Last Stand at The Wildwood Featuring Tracy Burkholder 1/6/20

Wildwood Saloon 1955 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

The Last Stand at the Wildwood Saloon is OVER THE MOON to be featuring the writing of Tracy Burkholder, author of I Want More, a lyric hybrid of memoir, poetry and image released by Summerbear Press in 2019. STOP! Before we go further, we had better read what a reviewer has said of her work, Deb on Amazon: “This book will remind your ribs and skin what it was like to long before you locked longing in a closet meant for somebody else. Each page prompts you to hold your breath, then let it out again slow. It will make you want to remember the days when you knew what a body can know.” Okay. Are you on the floor yet? Alive? Ready? Deb is…

Free

David McIntire at Last Stand

Wildwood Saloon 1955 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

The Outlaw presents the beast with the NEED. Coming to annihilate our senses! He's published and will speak his mind and drink whiskey!

Free

Last Stand featuring Red O’Hare!

Wildwood Saloon 1955 W Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

Red O'Hare was born to a Jew and a Presbyterian in the California Bay Area and raised in the San Fernando Valley. She first started performing at 15 and has continued in spite of everything. Her work focuses on intergenerational trauma, the things we lose, and the people we shouldn't love. She recently released her first spoken word album, Seaglass Strange, with Lightship Press and Shady Pines Media. You can find it on bandcamp at https://redohare.bandcamp.com. I'm so pumped for the honor of hosting this event! Let's do this! --Mike G ♥

Free

Last Stand

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Third Monday reading/conversation vis a vis poetry https://getvokl.com/live-broadcast/Third-Monday-Last-Stand

Free

Last Stand at Wildwood Saloon Poetry Open Mic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

First Monday open mic poetry show featuring the unimmitatable Jason Kastrup. Host of the fabulous Aural Pleasure showcase! Here is the link to watch. https://getvokl.com/live-broadcast/Last-Stand-at-Wildwood-3

Free