Upcoming Readings

Two readings of note in a span of three days--that's the equivalent of a perfect storm in Portland poetry terms. See you this week at:

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 7 PM (TONIGHT)
BETHANY IDES & EMILY KENDAL FREY
The Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia
The Mizpah Church, 2456 SE Tamarack Ave.

BETHANY IDES is a poet, performance-installation artist, teacher & independent curator. Her poetry has been published widely in journals such as Tarpaulin Sky, Fascicle, The Brooklyn Rail, and Octopus, and her fourth chapbook, “From Whence Undone,” is forthcoming from Cosa Nostra Editions. Ides teaches time-based arts and art theory at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR, and lives happily ever into with Joseph Bradshaw, the Fearless.

EMILY KENDAL FREY lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work is forthcoming from New York Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, and 42opus. Collaborative work with Sarah Bartlett will appear in Portland Review, Bat City Review, and the horse less press anthology New Pony. Poems from Something Should Happen at Night Outside, a collaboration with Zachary Schomburg, will appear in Pilot, Sir!, Diode, and Jubilat.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 7:30 PM
SARAH MANGOLD & CHRIS PIUMA
Spare Room, Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta

SARAH MANGOLD is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues) and a slew of chapbooks, most recently Parlor, a limited edition print and e/chap from the Dusie Kollectiv. She publishes Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art, and coedits FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera press, with Maryrose Larkin. She lives and works in Seattle.

CHRIS PIUMA is one of those poetry stalwarts who creates the oxygen scenes need to breathe, has been doing it for 8.5 years here in Portland, and is giving his last local reading before scuttling off to grad school in Toronto. Attendance is mandatory. You can catch the wit and considerable lexical wisdom of Chris online here.