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Tin House AWP Partyyyyyyyyy

Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us as we celebrate our 20th anniversary and welcome the AWP literary conference to Rip City with an evening of poetry and dancing. Tin House Books authors Hanif Abdurraqib, Erica Dawson, Morgan Parker, and Tommy Pico will be reading from their latest collections, with DJ Mami Miami providing the after-reading dance party. $5 cover fee with proceeds going to the Tin House Scholarship fund. These awards include targeted scholarships for writers who identify as: single parent, immigrant, still-emerging (writers over 40), formerly incarcerated, and/or graphic artist of color. 21 +

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Commonplace’s Offsite AWP Reading!

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Commonplace, Rachel Zucker's podcast featuring conversations with poets and other interesting people, is hosting a very special offsite reading at AWP. Readers: JERICHO BROWN, JANINE JOSEPH, ERIKA MEITNER, MORGAN PARKER, TOMMY PICO, TC TOLBERT, SARAH VAP and YANYI.

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Tommy Pico

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

From Whiting Award and American Book Award winner and Lambda finalist, Tommy Pico, comes Feed (Tin House), the final book in the Teebs Cycle. The fourth book in Pico’s tetralogy, Feed is an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line Park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness. Among its questions, Feed asks: What's the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac & cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a…

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LIVE ON ZOOM: POETRY NIGHT with JENNY ZHANG, TOMMY PICO, MORGAN PARKER & KHADIJAH QUEEN

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the best reading in all of time and space, featuring the poets of Tin House: Jenny Zhang, Tommy Pico, Morgan Parker and Khadijah Queen! Please register on Eventbrite to get the Meeting ID and password. Please note: this event will be recorded. Audio from the event will be posted to Skylight Books podcast page. Subscribe on iTunes or listen on Spotify. Jenny Zhang’s debut story collection, Sour Heart, conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City and is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Robert. W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. With writing that often focuses on the Chinese American immigrant experience, Jenny Zhang is known for her frank humor, emotional directness, and subversive thought about…

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Elissa Washuta, Kristin Arnett, Morgan Parker, and Tommy Pico: White Magic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join Elissa Washuta, Kristin Arnett, Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico for “a Sagittarius group chat” about Washuta’s new book, White Magic. Register in advance for this webinar Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a writer of personal essays and memoir. She is the author of two books, Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her work has appeared in Salon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. An adviser for the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington and a nonfiction faculty member in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Elissa lives near Seattle. Website - Twitter Elissa Washuta will give a Pop-Up Reading in Native American Art (Main Building, 3rd Floor). Kristen Arnett…

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Overcoming Rejection for Writers

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

FEATURING: Jami Attenberg Deesha Philyaw Tommy Pico Moderated by Denne Michele Norris Sponsored by GrubStreet's Muse & the Marketplace conference Whether you’re just starting out or a seasoned pro, all writers face rejection—but how we cope with that rejection plays a huge role in shaping our literary future. Rebounding can be tough, but rather than allowing rejection to stop us in our tracks, we can reframe it into a motivational and instructional tool. Some rejections actually make us stronger—as writers, editors, applicants, and people—while others just need to be ignored. Poet and TV writer Tommy Pico (JUNK, Reservation Dogs), memoirist Jami Attenberg (I Came All This Way to Meet You), and award-winning short story writer Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) will share…

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