Be among the first to receive the newest edition of Tiffany’s book with exclusive signed book packages available! Tiffany Jenkins is a wife, mother, author, content creator and recovering addict. Although best known for her funny viral Facebook videos, Tiffany speaks shamelessly, openly and honestly about her past and addiction, as well as her struggles with depression and anxiety. Tiffany’s story of hope has had such an overwhelming response from her supporters that she is ready to tackle her next life goal – travel the globe, meet her fans and make as many people laugh and feel inspired as possible. Tiffany Jenkins: This Show Is Awkward AF is the opportunity to spend quality time with Tiffany as she shares stories not-previously covered in her book…
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The Hermetic Order of Clandestine Urban Scribes, or HOCUS, is a literary reading series with a tongue-in-cheek emphasis on the ritual aspects of writing. Be prepared for a few peculiar ceremonies, a little music, and some stories and poems centering on July 17th’s theme: Rites and Rituals. Go to www.hocus.ink for more information or to submit work.
Comments closedRob Bell is the New York Times best selling author of Love Wins, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, The Zimzum of Love, How To Be Here and What is the Bible?. His podcast, called the RobCast, is the #1 spirituality podcast and iTunes named it Best of 2015. He’s been profiled in the New Yorker, toured with Oprah, and in 2011 Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has a regular show at Largo, the legendary comedy and music club in Los Angeles, where he lives with wife Kristen and their three children.
Comments closedWordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday June 29th, we’ll have a feature from 2019 Portland Poetry Slam Team and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: 2019 Portland Poetry Slam Team The 2019 Portland Poetry Slam Team are Rose City champs this year! The unique voices of Brianna Grisby, Avery Gadling, Bella, and Kate Leddy have come together to form a team with unstoppable energy, a broad range of experiences, and a universal appreciation for good frozen pizza. Their work will inspire you to celebrate, to grieve, to reflect, to listen, and to get involved. Most importantly, they hope you have fun! *** Sign-ups start at 5:30, show starts at 6PM. On second…
Comments closedBooks with Pictures presents a joint reading by the del Duca sisters! Leila del Duca is a comic book artist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. She draws SLEEPLESS, SHUTTER and wrote AFAR at Image Comics. She is now working on an autobiographical comic about growing up in rural Montana, being polyamorous, and following her passion of art. She’ll be presenting pictures and reading snippets from this currently un-named autobio comic. Rosa del Duca is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and musician. Her debut memoir Breaking Cadence: One Woman’s War Against the War chronicles her journey from eager Montana National Guard recruit to conscientious objector during the Iraq War. It’s being hailed as a “page-turner,” “gripping,” “beautifully-written” and “vital.” The book is published by…
Comments closedThe poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatory. Little Glass Planet (Graywolf) exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. In Zachary Schomburg’s own words, Pulver Maar (Black Ocean) “is a collection of poems written between 2014 and 2018. Some of the poems are long, and some of them are short.” These are every bit the poems you’ve come to dream of, long…
Comments closedAuthors Sarah Townsend and Liz Scott in conversation about their memoirs. Setting the Wire by Sarah Townsend is a memoir of postpartum psychosis and a meditation on containment: what we hold and what holds us together. A lyric exploration of motherhood, mental illness, and familial ties, Sarah Townsend’s debut work weaves together personal anecdote, film, music, visual art, and psychology. Setting the Wire is a visceral reflection on the experience of fragmentation as a young psychotherapist and new mother. Liz Scott’s memoir, This Never Happened, goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. In her relentless quest to uncover the truth, she mines photographs and letters, leaving no one, including herself, unexamined. This is a spare work, alternately heartbreaking and darkly…
Comments closedAuthors Sarah Townsend and Liz Scott share excerpts from their new memoirs: Townsend with Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis and Scott with This Never Happened.
Comments closedPoetry Practice Space is a monthly gathering for poets and writers. Writing materials, readings and prompts for generative writing will be provided. Come share a space to talk about your writing practice, and current writing projects, bemoan rejections, celebrate acceptances, share writing resources— and write together! Consider Poetry Practice Space the calisthenics for your poetics. Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Free for members
Comments closedIn The Voice of This Stone (Carpe Diem), a respected volcanologist with five decades of scientific study and boots-on-the-ground experience shares his expert knowledge. Through more than a dozen case studies from around the globe, Kevin Scott offers chilling details about what happened before, during, and after infamous volcanic cataclysms. During his lengthy career as a field geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Scott traveled extensively to visit sites that were dramatically altered by forces within the earth. Scott’s case studies highlight some of the best known events and advance warnings regarding future episodes. By deciphering the histories of other disasters, Scott proposes, lives can and will be spared.
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