Thursday 6/16: Slant Live Queer Storytelling returns for Portland Pride 2016, featuring seven LGBTQ storytellers telling seven-minute stories. Hosted by Sister Britt, this event will stories from Joel Kim Booster, Roy Perez, Llondyn Elliot, Shoshanah Oppenheim, Jerrick Hope-Lang, and Sita Symonette. Mississippi Studios, 8 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 at the door.
Friday 6/17: The first night of the Spring 2016 Poetry Press Week will feature poems by W. Vandoren Wheeler, Shayla Lawson, Zachary Schomburg, John Beer, and Stephanie Adams-Santos. Disjecta, 7 p.m., $5.
Saturday 6/18: The second night of the Spring 2016 Poetry Press Week will feature Susan Moore, Chrys & Allison Tobey, Colin Keating, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, and Intisar Abioto. Disjecta, 7 p.m., $5.
Sunday 6/19: The Portland Silent Reading party invites community members to reading quietly in the company of others with ambient music and happy hour prices once again this month. Beech St. Parlor, 3 to 5 p.m., free.
Tuesday 6/21: Salon Skid Row presents Josh Gaines, Melissa Dodson, Emmett Wheatfall, and David Blumenshine for this week’s reading. The Corner Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Becky and Dena Taylor will read from their joint memoir, Tell Me The Number Before Infinity: The Story of a Girl with a Quirky Mind, an Eccentric Family, and Oh Yes, a Disability. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 6/22: Electronic music performer and writer Moby reads from his new memoir, Porcelain. Powell’s City of Books, 12 p.m., free.
Unchaste Readers invites Liz Prato, Sarah Einstein, Evelyn Sharenov, Ariel Gore, and Zoe Zolbrod for this month’s edition. Literary Arts, 7 p.m., free.
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