Today’s Featured Book Event: Poetry Reading & Open Mic (Star e Rose Cafe, @6:00pm): Come on down to the star e rose and bring those words you have hidden in the back of your closet, your journal you write in while sipping Chamomile. bring your heartfelt love poetry, searing social commentary, uproarious comic routines, and [...]
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New Release: "OK, Goodnight" By Emily Kendal Frey and Zachary Schomburg
If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by [...]
Poet & Art Critic Bill Berkson in Portland
An announcement from David Abel: In two poetry readings and one panel discussion over a two-week period, noted New York School poet and art critic Bill Berkson will make a rare appearance in the Pacific Northwest, to celebrate several recent publications: Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press); and Ted Berrigan (a [...]
New Release: "Pulling Apart" by John Blackard
If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by [...]
New Release: "Slim Margin" by Alison Apotheker
If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by [...]
Reading Local Portland Review: Peaches & Bats 5
Peaches & Bats is a hand-bound poetry journal produced semiannually by Portland’s own Sam Lohmann. The latest issue includes work by Emily Kendal Frey, Sheila Murphy, Allison Cobb, Robert Kelly, and many others–all for the low, low price of five bucks. You can pick up Peaches & Bats issue 5 from the journal website or [...]
Reading Local Portland Interview: Sid Miller
Today’s interview is with Sid Miller, the founder and executive editor of Burnside Review, which has a new issue due out in April. In addition to his duties with the journal, Sid has two new poetry collections out, one entitled Dot-to-Dot, Oregon (Ooligan Press) and the other Nixon on the Piano (David Robert Brooks). In [...]
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