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Verse First – Drag Queen Poetry with Loretta and Mars!

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

This November we invite you to dive into a different set of Divas. Plath. Dickenson. Augustini. Mistral. This is drag which celebrates the feminine VERSE FIRST. We will amplify the voices of women poets, gender non-conforming poets, queer poets, poets of color, poets of change. We invite you to tuck into one of Portland’s coziest independent bookstores for an evening of FEELING. We’ll let the poetry of others and of our own take us on a deep dive into our shared stories of pain and joy, and our shared work of examining self and society. We will share the selections of verse which are getting us through the present difficulties. We will look fabulous doing it. YOU will leave prepared to walk out into the…

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