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User Not Found book release party w/ Felicity Fenton & friends

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Come celebrate the release of the newest Future Tense book, User Not Found, by Portland's Felicity Fenton. She'll be joined by authors Rebecca Schiff (The Bed Moved) and Jay Ponteri (Darkmouth Strikes Again), with music by Milk Bandits. About the book: Prompted by a sequence of discouraging internet encounters, Felicity Fenton attempts to free herself from the tendrils of an online world we know, but struggle to look away from. She evaluates the endless distractions of being tethered to her device and all that comes with it: email, spam, texting, taking pictures, and social media (aka “the walls”). In lyrical prose that swerves into dream-like mirage, hilarious thoughts, social observations, and unwavering sadness, User Not Found is a powerful essay that is all too relatable.…

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Fairy Tale Review at AWP

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Annual literary journal the Fairy Tale Review swings through Turn! Turn! Turn! in conjunction with AWP to showcase new, inclusive, and innovative fairy-tale prose and poetry

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AWP 2019: Waxwing, Newfound, & the Collagist

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

We're at it again. Kick off AWP with a mixed-genre (poetry, prose, translation) reading. Free admission. Donations appreciated to support the literary efforts of these spectacular journals. Please invite & share! * Rodney Gomez * Meghan McClure * Catherine Pikula * Natalie Scenters-Zapico * Erika T. Wurth • Derek Mong * Leslie Contreras Schwartz * Matthew Vollmer * Maya Sonenberg

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8 Poets 8 New Books 8 Presses

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us at Turn Turn Turn in Portland for an Association of Writers & Writing Programs offsite event featuring 8 poets reading from 8 new books published by 8 different presses: * * * Catherine Bresner – THE EMPTY SEASON – Diode Editions * * * Jos Charles – FEELD – Milkweed Editions * * * Jennifer S. Cheng – MOON: LETTERS, MAPS, POEMS – Tarpaulin Sky Press * * * Erica Dawson – WHEN RAP SPOKE STRAIGHT TO GOD – Tin House * * * Heather June Gibbons – HER MOUTH AS SOUVENIR – The University of Utah Press * * * Anna Maria Hong – AGE OF GLASS – Cleveland State University Poetry Center * * * Dora Malech – STET – Princeton…

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Tarpaulin Sky and Lettered Streets Press Offsite Reading

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join Tarpaulin Sky Press and Lettered Streets Press for a special offsite reading of essays and fiction during #AWP19. FREE Entry. Readers: PIPER J. DANIELS RYAN SPOONER is the author of Regret (The Lettered Streets Press, 2014). His essays have appeared in Ghost Proposal, South Loop Review, and Cutbank, whose Big Fish Lyric Essay contest he won in 2011. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches writing and literature. SARAH C. TOWNSEND is the author of Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis (The Lettered Streets Press, 2019). Her essays have appeared in The Writer in the World and Pitkin Review, and a coauthored paper with Elisabeth Young-Bruehl serves as a chapter in Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Writing Women’s Lives. Sarah received…

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Nouns & Verbs: A Poetry Reading

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening with Florida International University MFA poets Campbell McGrath, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ariel Francisco, Emma Trelles, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, and special guests. Beers and ciders on tap, full bar, and food will be available for purchase.

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Family Portrait Poetry Reading

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Hello wonderful poetry people! We're doing 'family portrait' again! I miss you. It's been too long. This reading is at: Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St 6pm doors open 6:30 reading starts The lineup: Jake Vermaas KMA Sullivan manuel arturo abreu Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner This is an all-ages, accessible venue. Food and drinks are available, including alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages. Please let us know if you need accommodations to attend. * * * * * Jake Vermaas is a 1.5 or 0.5-generation immigrant or a natural-born citizen, depending on who you ask. A poet and engineer in Portland, OR, he co-founded (with friends) the Whitenoise Project, a reading and discussion series aiming to center writers of color and underrepresented voices. He has won a couple contests and…

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Amy Rigby plus special guest Scott The Hoople!

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

We are ever so pleased to host the great Amy Rigby! Amy has a new book out - Girl to City - and will be playing songs and reading from her book. Very special guest Scott The Hoople (Scott McCaughey) opens. Don't miss! 21+// $10// 8pm Amy Rigby’s long-awaited memoir will be published in October 2019. Girl To City: describes Amy’s progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student, CBGB habitué and fledgling musician, to critically acclaimed singer-songwriter. Set in a twentieth century New York world of homemade clubs and bands — through love affairs, temp jobs and motherhood — the challenge of balancing art and real life gave Rigby the themes that define her work as a songwriter and…

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Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later: A Memoir in Mountain Goats Songs

Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Richard O'Brien puts together new writing and photography from a month exploring John Darnielle's Portland. Also featuring: Try My Tiny Song: Mountain Goats Open Mic. Know a tMG cover or two? Come on in and share them with other fans! Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later: A Memoir in Mountain Goats Songs Want to cover a @mountaingoatsmusic song and hear about my month exploring John Darnielle's Portland? Come down to @turnturnturnpdx at 7pm on September 5th to sing one for the old times, and stay for new writing, photography and choice cuts from the Mountain Goats live archive. All part of the first book about this beloved cult band, an experimental music memoir, which I'm currently writing for @unbounders.

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