Thursday 5/26: Emily Bingham reads from her book, Diary of a Rope Slut. Crush Bar, 6 p.m., free.
Bronwen Dickey reads from her latest book, Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
Mark Kurlansky reads from his new book, Paper: Paging Through History. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Christopher McCormick reads from his new novel, Desert Boys. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 5/27: Poetry Confluence #10 invites Teal Bluestone, Edie Rylander, Finn Turner, Jordan Rassmussen, and Kiki Nicole to read from their latest work. Ristretto Roasters, 7 p.m., free.
Saturday 5/28: Inheritors :: She Who Has No Master(s) is the debut of a Hybrid Forms series (curated by Danielle Frandina/Tell It Slant Reading Series, A.M. O’Malley, and Dao Strom) featuring writers and artists using multiple art genres to elucidate the after-effects of violence, large-scale and personal, political and domestic, on individuals and communities. This debut reading will gather the voices/experiences of women descendants and inheritors of the Vietnam War and refugee exodus. Likewise, 7 p.m., free.
Sunday 5/29: À Reading welcomes Amy Lam, Jamondria Harris, A.M. O’Malley, Elizabeth Hall, and Robert Torres to read from their latest work. Valentine’s, 5 p.m., free.
Poetic Justice hosts a show featuring Landra Glover, Beyond, Cosmo Problems, and StyleZ. District Portland, 7 p.m., $5.
The Silver Needle Reading Series welcomes Jacqueline Treiber, Misha Speck, Sarah Borsten, Claire Valentine-Fossum, Spencer Pond, and Lily Gabrielle Weil for their latest reading. Townshend’s Alberta Teahouse, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 5/31: Salon Skid Row presents Robert Lashley, Dena Rash Guzman, and John Barrios for this week’s reading. The Corner Bar, 7 p.m., free.
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