Notable Portland: 7/11–7/17

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Thursday 7/11: Journalist Lisa Taddeo reads from her new investigative piece, Three Women. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

The Tin House Summer Workshop hosts a reading featuring R. O. Kwon, Michelle Tea, Justin Torres, and Camille T. Dungy. Reed College Amphitheater, 8 p.m., free.

Fuse Collective partners with Ladies of Paradise to bring you a mixer of visual art, drag performances, astrology readings, DJ, wine from Winderlea Vineyards, spirits from Wild Roots, and catering from Le Bistro Montage. Ladies of Paradise, 6 p.m., $5 suggested donation.

Friday 7/12: The Tin House Summer Workshop hosts a reading featuring Garth Greenwell, Terese Marie Mailhot, and Samiya Bashir. Reed College Amphitheater, 8 p.m., free.

Join Fused Creative today and tomorrow for a two-day festival featuring local, queer performance artists. Curious Comedy Annex, 7 p.m., $15 per day.

Saturday 7/13: Hannah Vogel celebrates the launch of her latest chapbook, Portland Heat, with a reading and soirée. The Perlene, 6 p.m., free.

The Tin House Summer Workshop hosts a reading featuring Rebecca Makkai, Natalie Diaz, and Mitchell S. Jackson. Reed College Amphitheater, 8 p.m., free.

Wednesday 7/17: Enjoy Of Anarchists and Oulipians, an evening of constrained and dissident politics, featuring Jeff Diteman, Sam Lohmann, and Lena Walker. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 7 p.m., free.

Lyrical poet Clementine von Radics reads from her new collection, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 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. More from this author →