While on the picket line during ILWU Local 5’s first contract campaign, a tired Powell’s Books employee started a chant to lift the spirits of his fellow workers: “We like to party, but the fight comes first.” Now, after ten years, ILWU Local 5 (whose membership is comprised of workers at Powell’s Books and Aramark) [...]
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Tonight 7-2: Emily Kendal Frey, Bryan Coffelt, Evelyn Hampton, and Kevin Sampsell at Ampersand
Today’s Featured Book Event: Emily Kendal Frey, Bryan Coffelt, Evelyn Hampton, and Kevin Sampsell (Ampersand, @7:30pm): Kevin Sampsell plays host to this evening of poetry. Seattle poet Evelyn Hampton will read from her book of poems We Were Eternal and Gigantic, along with Emily Kendal Frey, whose latest collection, The New Planet, has been described [...]
Portland Book Events: June 26-July 2
From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of June 26, 2010 through July 2, 2010 are: Saturday June 26th- Voices in Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am): Bring along a cup [...]
Tonight 4-30: Sampsell, Masters, and Boggess at the Templeton Building
Today’s Featured Book Event: Kevin Sampsell and Friends (Templeton Building-230 E. Burnside, @8:00pm, $7): Disjecta presents Kevin Sampsell, who will read from his memoir A Common Pornography. With special guests Frayn Masters and Nathaniel Boggess. Other Book Events Today: Friends of Hillsboro Library Spring Book Sale (Hillsboro Main Library, @10:00am): The Friends of the Hillsboro [...]
Tonight 3-31: Kevin Sampsell at Portland State University
Today’s Featured Book Event: Kevin Sampsell (Portland State, Smith Memorial SU, #238, @6:00pm): Kevin Sampsell reads from “A Common Pornography,” a memoir, told in vignettes, that captures the history of one dysfunctional American family. An extension of a 2003 “memory experiment” of the same name, “A Common Pornography” weaves recollections of small-town youth with darker [...]
Portland Book Events: March 27-April 2
From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of March 27, 2010 through April 2, 2010 are: Saturday March 27- Voices in Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am): Bring along a cup [...]
Tonight 3-25: Live Wire! Radio at The Mission Theater
Today’s Featured Book Event: Live Wire! Radio (Mission Theater, @7:30pm, $20/General Admission, $30/Reserved): Live Wire! is an independently produced radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Mission Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). Guests on the March 25th show include: Floater, a local band with a new release [...]
Tonight 3-16: Read to Rebuild-A Haiti Benefit Reading at The Writers' Dojo
Today’s Featured Book Event: Read to Rebuild-A Haiti Benefit Reading (The Writers’ Dojo, @7:00pm, $10 Suggested Donation): Reading Local’s first event! Come hear from some of Portland’s finest including Ariel Gore, Margaret Malone, Laura Moulton, Ben Parzybok, Kevin Sampsell, and Tom Spanbauer. Music provided by Sweeter Than Later, and free wine courtesy of Cameron Hughes [...]
13 Reasons To Attend Tomorrow's Read To Rebuild-Haiti Benefit Reading
Unless this is the first post you have ever read on RLP, you are probably aware that we are organizing a Haiti Benefit Reading to be held tomorrow evening at The Writers’ Dojo. And in case you are still on the fence as to whether or not you can make it, I wanted to provide [...]
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