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Portland Lit Crawl: An Evening of Environmental Unknowns

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Portland Review and The Accomplices (Entropy, Civil Coping Mechanisms, and Writ Large Press) join Lit Crawl Portland to co-host Unchartable: An Evening of Environmental Unknowns. It is the nature of the human mind to seek, to touch, to understand and occupy vast unknowable terrains, but which of our daily environments resist comprehension? Our readers will present unknowable psychological landscapes, confounding emotional habitats, the shapeless environs of both speculation and perception, those territories where mind and body, physical and psychological, human and nonhuman, meet and cohabitate without reconciliation. Our readers for the evening are Samiya Bashir, M. Allen Cunningham, Anne-Marie Kinney, and Janice Lee. Samiya Bashir's books of poetry: Where the Apple Falls, Gospel, and Field Theories, winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Award, and anthologies,…

Free

Center Justify: An Offsite Extravaganza

PSU Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St, Portland, OR, United States

Come join us for readings, performances, food (dinner will be served!), camaraderie, and more. This event is co-sponsored by The Accomplices (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, Writ Large Press), De-Canon: A Visibility Project, Whitenoise Project, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University, and The Operating System. Contact: Janice Lee CENTER JUSTIFY: An #AWP19 OFFSITE EXTRAVAGANZA Come join us for readings, performances, food (dinner will be served!), camaraderie, and more. This event is co-sponsored by: - The Accomplices (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, Writ Large Press) - De-Canon: A Visibility Project - Whitenoise Project - Asian American Writers' Workshop - Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University - The Operating System More details, including additional readers and a detailed hourly schedule are coming soon!…

Free