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A Reading & Celebration: University of Akron Press & Noctuary Press

Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for a celebration of Noctuary Press's and the University of Akron Press's latest titles. This reading and party will feature presentations of poetry by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade, whose book, The Unrhymables, launches this year, as well as readings by Brittany Cavallaro, Krystal Languel, and Tyler Mills. Contact: Kristina Marie Darling

Free

AWP 32 Poems / AGNI / Gulf Coast / Pleiades / Quarterly West

The Slide Inn 2342 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United States

Calling all AWP Portland attendees! Join 32 Poems Magazine, AGNI, Gulf Coast Journal, Pleiades and Quarterly West at The Slide Inn (2348 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214) Thursday 3/28 from 7-10 pm for readings by many talented contributors to our journals. Food and drink will be provided free of charge. We look forward to seeing you there! Readers will include: 32 Poems: Malachi Black, Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, Randall Mann, and Marcus Wicker AGNI: William Archila, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Edgar Kunz, Natalie Shapero, and Maggie Smith Gulf Coast: Gabrielle Bates, Tiana Clark, Amorak Huey, Diane Seuss, and Justin Wymer Pleiades: Destiny Birdsong, F Douglas Brown, Tyler Mills, Susannah Nevison, and David Welch Quarterly West: Kaveh Akbar, Dorothy Chan, Brandon Courtney Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Carlos Price-Sanchez

Free

Readings from They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing

The Fixin' To 8218 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening of readings from Black Lawrence Press' anthology of collaborative writing. Edited by Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, and Jackie K. White, They Said includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as hybridized forms. Readers include: Amorak Huey, Todd Kaneko, Martha Silano, Ben Clark, GennaRose Nethercott, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Denise Duhamel, Julie Marie Wade, Jennifer Givhan, Alicia Elkort, Kelly Magee, Carol Guess, John Gallaher, G.C. Waldrep, Tyler Mills, Kendra DeColo, Callista Buchen, Amy Ash, Isobel O’Hare, Sarah Lyn Rogers, and Kyle McCord. Contact: Gina Keicher Come out for an evening of collaborative readings from They Said, BLP's multi-genre anthology of collaborative writing! Edited by Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, & Jackie K. White, They Said includes poetry, fiction, and…

Free