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Spare Room Reading: Lindsey Boldt, Jacob Kahn, & Turner Canty

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

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by JACOB KAHN, LINDSEY BOLDT, & TURNER CAPEHART CANTY Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur Street, Suite 660, Portland, OR 97209 Admission free Covid precautions: Proof of vaccination and masks required PLEASE NOTE: Doors will open at 7:30; reading will start promptly at 8:00, with no late admissions. (See the Facebook Event Discussion for poems by the poets.) Lindsey Boldt is the author of Weirding (Dogpark Collective), the chapbooks Some Ennui (Portable Press @ Yoyo Labs) and <(( ))> (Couch Press), and the novella Overboard (Publication Studio). With Steve Orth, she wrote & performed plays for San Francisco Poets Theater and co-edited the chapbook series Summer BF Press. She is currently the editorial director of Nightboat Books and lives in…

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Books & Prints by Ian van Coller

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

Passages Bookshop is excited to announce our summer exhibition •••• BOOKS & PRINTS BY IAN VAN COLLER •••• July 8 – August 20, 2022 Covid precautions: Proof of vaccination and masks required ================================================ For the past decade, Ian van Coller has traveled the globe in pursuit of images that communicate the realities of climate change and deep time. He has photographed disappearing glaciers, endangered and threatened birds, the oldest trees on earth, and the oldest ice yet discovered, traveling to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, the cloud forest of Colombia, Svalbard in the high Norwegian Arctic, and Glacier, Great Basin, and Rocky Mountain National Parks in the Western United States. He has accompanied climate scientists on expeditions to remote glaciers on…

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Reading by Andrew Joron & John Beer

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

Admission free; proof of vaccination and facial covering required PLEASE NOTE: Doors will open at 7:30; reading will start promptly at 8:00, with no late admission ============================================================= Please join us in celebrating the publication of Andrew Joron’s new book O0, two novellas of speculative fiction. Books by both authors will be available for purchase. Read an excerpt from O0 on the Facebook page for the event. Andrew Joron is a poet, essayist, and speculative fiction writer, as well as a translator and musician. His poetry collections include The Absolute Letter (Flood), Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights), The Sound Mirror (Flood), Fathom (Black Square), and The Removes (Hard Press). The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was…

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Spare Room reading: J Coleman, J Dunn, J Stanley, Thursday 9/22

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

Poetry reading by JEN COLEMAN, JORDAN DUNN, & JARED STANLEY a band of Js converging from Portland, Madison, & Reno!   Door opens 7:00 pm, reading at 7:30 pm No late entry Free admission Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Mask & vax required *** Jen Coleman is author of Psalms for Dogs and Sorcerers from Trembling Pillow Press, winner of the 2013 Bob Kaufman Book Prize selected by poet Dara Wier, and We Denizens from Furniture Press in 2016. Jordan Dunn is the author of Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press, 2022) as well as numerous pamphlets and ephemeral prints including Common Names, Reactor Woods, The Land of Little Rain, and Cedar Lake: August 2, 2017. He lives with his family…

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Joe Safdie, Patrick Dunagan, & Charles Alexander (Spare Room Reading)

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

Door opens 7:00 pm, reading at 7:30 pm No late entry Admission free Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Covid precautions: Proof of vaccination and masks required =============================================================== Joe Safdie’s last two books from Spuyten Duyvil Press are The Oregon Trail (2021) and, this year, the hybrid chapbook The Secular Divine. Next year a book of his selected essays, Poetry and Heresy, will be published by MadHat Press. He moved to Portland in 2019 and has been studying the language of trees. Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco. A graduate of the Poetics program from the now-defunct New College of California, he recently edited David Meltzer's Rock Tao (Lithic Press) and Roots…

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POETRY READING BY DYLAN ANGELL & DAN RAPHAEL

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

Spare Room Reading Series & Passages Bookshop present a poetry reading and book launch for Dylan Angell (Demanding the Room) and Dan Raphael (In the Wordshed). Door opens at 6:00 pm; reading at 6:30 pm (no late entry). Admission free — Mask & vax required Dylan Angell is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. He has released a number of chapbooks including Anywhere I Lay My Head, released by The Silent Academy, and Photo Never Taken, released by The Concern Newsstand. He co-organizes Evenings, a mixed media series, with Loan Tran and Victoria Bouloubasis. His new collection Demanding the Room, with artwork by Mark He, is published by Bored Wolves. He plays the trumpet and likes to swim in natural bodies of water.…

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SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL [POSTPONED]

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

Doors open at 7:00 pm; reading at 7:30 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step, the selected poems of Orides Fontela, is forthcoming from…

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SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL

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

Please note new date & time: Sunday, March 5 Doors open at 5:30 pm; reading at 6:00 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step,…

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