Notable Portland: 1/31–2/6
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreThursday 7/13: Tavern Books is proud to present a bilingual reading by Caroline Wilcox Reul and guests to celebrate the launch of Who Lives, Elisabeth Borchers’s book translated from its original German. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 7 p.m., free. Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic presents Oakland poets Tongo Eisen-Martin and Derek Fenner for their monthly reading. […]
...moreThursday 6/1: Enjoy a pop-up shop and reading for First Thursday for the Flock anthology. Readers will include Megan Griffith, Ameena Lacey-Viet, Ann Petroliunas, Rob Savela, and others. Composition Gallery, 6 p.m., free. Slamlandia! Hosts its June Poetry open mic and slam. Hawthorne Hot Lips Pizza, 6 p.m., $1–5 suggested donation.
...moreWomen in Clothes, the sexism of Haruki Murakami, and poems about Gertrude Stein and desire.
...moreMeet Invincible Eric. Then, Matthew Daddona reviews Carl Adamshick’s “empathetic” collection, Saint Friend. The poet employs a “smooth and elegiac rhetoric that is more concerned with sonic repetition than it is flawless consistency.” Adamshick’s book is worth a look for its “flair,” its “speed,” and its willingness to experiment with form. And in the Sunday […]
...moreMatthew Daddona reviews Carl Adamshick’s Saint Friend today in Rumpus Poetry.
...more[Adamshick’s] disinterest in self-promotion is plain, and the interview should be read with his tone in mind: wary, self-depreciating, somewhat amused.
...moreThe Mathematician She’s taken to sleeping late. Only recently have I come to stare on her as phenomenon.
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