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Spare Room Annual Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein & Jackson Mac Low

April 30, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR 97209 + Google Map

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop
present a marathon reading

IDA  by  Gertrude Stein
Pieces o’ Six  by  Jackson Mac Low

Sunday, April 30
12:00 pm until finish
(probably around 8:00-8:30 pm)

Admission free

Passages Bookshop
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665

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The Spare Room Reading Series hosts an annual marathon reading, in which
local writers, artists, and friends read aloud one or more booklength texts.

This year’s marathon features Gertrude Stein’s short novel Ida (1945) and
Jackson Mac Low’s thirty-three “poems in prose” Pieces o’ Six (1992).

Readers (in order of appearance) will be

Chris Piuma
David Abel
Phoebe Wayne
Elizabeth Costello
James Yeary
Joe Safdie
Chris Ashby
Patrick Hartigan
Endi Bogue Hartigan
Angel O’Brien
Rodney Koeneke
Laura Feldman
Seann McCollum
John Beer
Robert Blatt
Sam Lohmann

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Upcoming events at Passages Bookshop:

Saturday 5/6   Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Mark So

Wednesday 5/10   Spare Room Reading Series
Susan Schultz, Norman Fischer, & Jeanne Heuving

Friday 5/12   Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Mike Richard

Saturday 5/20   Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Kenneth Gaburo’s Maledetto performed by the
Evergreen Experimental Music Ensemble

Friday 5/12   Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
Nico Vassilakis & mARKO WHENs
 
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