Notable Portland: 11/12–11/18
Thursday 11/12: Mary Jo Bang reads from her acclaimed poetry as part of this semester’s visiting writers series at Reed College. Eliot Chapel, 6:30 p.m., free. Scott Nadelson celebrates the…
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Olivia Olivia
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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.
Notable Portland: 11/5–11/11
Thursday 11/5: Chelsea Clinton hosts an official signing for her new book, It’s Your World. Powell’s City of Books, 5:30 p.m., free. Carrie Brownstein, codeveloper of Portlandia and musician from…
Notable Portland: 10/29–11/4
Thursday 10/29: The Reed College Visiting Writers program welcomes Emily Hunt to read from her standout debut poetry collection, Dark Green. Eliot Hall, 6:30 p.m., free. Don Miguel Ruiz reads…
Notable Portland: 10/22–10/28
Thursday 10/22: Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor hosts a signing for this third book, You’re Making Me Hate You. Powell’s City of Books, 12:30 p.m., free. National Poetry Slam finalist and…
Notable Portland: 10/15–10/21
Thursday 10/15: New York Times bestselling author Vanessa Diffenbaugh discusses her array of novels, answers audience questions, and is joined in conversation by Mary Lee, national coordinator for Youth Villages’ LifeSet, a…
Notable Portland: 10/8–10/14
Thursday 10/8: Michael Golding reads from her spiritual novel, A Poet of the Invisible World. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free. Mark Sten reads from All Ages: The Rise and Fall of Portland Punk…
Notable Portland: 10/1–10/7
Thursday 10/1: Robert Michael Pyle reads from his latest book Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land and is then joined in conversation by David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on…
Notable Portland: 9/24–9/30
Thursday 9/24: Todd Gleason celebrates the release of his first print anthology, Drunk at a Midnight Choir, by reading alongside Faith McGee, Sophia Pfaff Shalmiyev, Amie Zimmerman, Robert Lashley, Clementine…
Notable Portland: 9/17–9/23
Thursday 9/17: Historian Michael Helquist reads from his latest book that follows the life of one of Oregon’s first women physicians, Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions. Broadway Books,…
Notable Portland: 9/10–9/16
Thursday 9/10: Tavern Books throws a release party for Megan Levad and her debut poetry collection, Why We Live in the Dark Ages. Literary Arts, 7 p.m., free. Sara Donati,…
Notable Portland: 9/3–9/9
Thursday 9/3: Join the Red Umbrella Project for a sex workers writing workshop, which will help local writers generation stories for the next issue of Working It zine and Prose…
Notable Portland: 8/27–9/2
Thursday 8/27: Christopher Moore reads from his latest novel, Secondhand Souls. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free. Jennifer Pashley reads from her latest dark and compelling novel, The…