Notable Portland: 2/4–2/10

Thursday 2/4: Tell It Slant and Late Night Library present a night of the Strange and Fantastic, featuring magical realism readings by Anna Doogan, Marjorie Sandor, and visiting author Kelly Luce. Alberta Street Pub, 7 p.m., free.

Portland’s new literary journal The Timberline Review celebrates its latest edition release party with a reading, including some of this issue’s contributors Kim Stafford, Jeanne Krinsley, Gina Ochsner, Jack Estes, Wayne Scott, Jennifer Dorner, and Julie Young. The Vault, 7 p.m., free.

Local author Tim Hicks reads from latest novel on climate change, Last Stop Before Tomorrow. Another Read Through, 7 p.m., free.

Tuesday 2/9: Planned Parenthood is hosting a storytelling fundraiser in honor of Valentine’s Day: It’s Not Me It’s You: Stories From The Dark Side of Dating. Storytellers include Sean Jordan, Courtenay Hameister, Margaret Malone, Arthur Bradford, Shannon Graves, Joanna Miller, Alina Aliyar, and rapper Iammoshow. Alberta Rose Theatre, 6 p.m., $20 door, $18 advance.

Join SuperThank for a live storytelling event, Stories of Gratitude: Natural Selection, featuring Stacey Hallal, Amy Sample Ward, Sean Keener, Johnny Montes De Oca, and Brodie Kelly. Eastburn, 6:30 p.m., sliding scale donation of $5 to $10.

Salon Skid Row presents Justin Rigamonti, Allison Tobye, and Chrys Tobey for this week’s reading. The Corner Bar, 7 p.m., free.

The Timberline Review hosts a second reading to celebrate this issue’s release, this time with authors Penelope Scambly Schott, Jeanne Krinsley, Gina Ochsner, Jack Estes, Wayne Scott, Julie Young, and Tiah Lindner Raphael. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.

Kathleen Dean Moore reads from her latest book, Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

Wednesday 2/10: Sheila Hamilton reads from her new memoir, All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness, following the emotional breakdown and eventual suicide of her husband. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.

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Olivia Olivia comes from the same place all sad things come from—the sea. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, The Establishment, Ex-Berliner, and the Portland Mercury, among other places. Her speculative memoir set in the afterlife, No One Remembered Your Name But I Wrote It Down, is available through Impossible Wings Press. Prepare yourselves. You can follow her work at oliviawrites.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

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