Saturday, December 15, 2012

Publication Fair, Sunday 12/16/12




Publication Fair

December 16th
Noon to 6 pm

The Cleaners at Ace Hotel
SW 10th and Stark in Portland

I'll be hawking Peaches and Bats, Airfoil chapbooks, c_L chapbooks, Abandoned Bike zines, and Rolling in the Easy Circumstances, a brand new poetry collaboration by James Yeary and myself. Come say hello.

Other vendors include: Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books // Poor Claudia // Bad Blood Reading Series // Octopus Books // IPRC // Floating World Comics // Nationale // Amahita Jamali Rad/AAB // Tin House // Container Corps // Division Leap // Publication Studio // Dill Pickle Club // Gobshite Quarterly // Social Malpractice Publishing // Sharpstuff // Passages Bookshop // Bedouin Books // Table of Contents // Perfect Day Publishing // Monograph Bookwerks 

Friday, November 30, 2012

Beer & Putnam, 12/2/11


Sunday, December 27
at 7: 30 pm

Spare Room presents a reading by

C. E. Putnam
&
John Beer

Division Leap
211 SW 9th Avenue, Portland
(between Burnside and Oak)

$5 suggested donation


Friday, September 21, 2012

Abel & Wolsak, 9/23


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Sunday, September 23
at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents a reading by


David Abel
&
Lissa Wolsak


211 SW 9th Ave., Portland
(downtown between Burnside and Oak)

$5 suggested donation

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Issue 10 launch party at Division Leap Books this Thursday!



Thursday, September 20
at 7 p.m.

come to a launch party for

with readings by
Endi Bogue Hartigan
Jac Nelson
Elizabeth Pusack
David Weinberg

and music by
Activity Universal
(Eric Matchett & Jake Anderson)

211 SW 9th Ave, Portland (between Burnside and Oak)


Friday, September 14, 2012

New Issue!


Peaches and Bats #10
(Fall 2012)

features poems by
Andrew Bartels
Andrew Durbin
Whit Griffin
Endi Bogue Hartigan
Laura Henriksen
Jac Nelson
Denise Newman
Elizabeth Pusack
Judah Rubin
Jared Stanley
Sara Sutter 
Dan Thomas-Glass
David Weinberg
Karen Weiser
McCloud Zicmuse

and visual work by 
Kristin Fialko
Morgan Ritter
David Weinberg

64-page handsewn zine with letterpress cover and foldout color poster insert

$5
(includes shipping in North America)

email peachesandbats AT gmail DOT com
or use Paypal button below


Weekend Readings in Portland




Saturday, September 15
7:30 pm

David Meltzer
Julie Rogers

Mother Foucault's Bookshop
523 SE Morrison St.
503-236-2665

$5 suggested donation

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Sunday, September 16
7 pm

Lindsey Boldt
Steve Orth
Sam Lohmann

717 SW Ankeny St.

free

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Bay Area magic is coming our way this weekend, some of it in "Starcraft."

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Johnson & Yeary, 9/9


Sunday, September 9
at 7:30 p.m.

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

James Yeary
&
Mark Johnson

Division Leap
211 SW 9th Avenue, Portland (between Burnside and Oak)

$5 suggested donation

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This will be the first event at the brand new Division Leap bookstore. Division Leap is also having an opening party tomorrow, Friday 9/7, from 5-8 p.m.

James Yeary and Mark Johnson both have new chapbooks out from Editions Plane.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Naka Pierce, Pusateri & Vincent, 8/12

drawing by Stephen Vincent, courtesy of The New Post-Literate

Sunday, August 12th
at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents 
a poetry reading by

Michelle Naka Pierce
Chris Pusateri
&
Stephen Vincent

3120 N. Williams Ave., Portland

$5 suggested donation

Monday, July 23, 2012

Preternatural Poetry Week in Portland, 7/23-7/31



There's a lot happening this week.


Monday, July 23, 6:30 pm
Kaia Sand, Dana Hynes, Donna Prinzmetal, Judith Pulman, Dan Raphael, & Rob Freedman 
Readings in various genres by instructors in the Multnomah Arts Center Literary Arts Program
Poetry on the Piazza -- Judith Pulman, host
Director Park 
SW Park & Taylor 

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Tuesday, July 24, 7:00 pm
Kyle Schlesinger, Robbie Dewhurst, Cindy St. John
Three visiting poets, hosted by one of Portland's newest specialist booksellers

Division Leap -- Gallery, Rare Bookstore, and Publisher 
425 SE 3rd #303 (Oak Street Bldg.)

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Wednesday, July 25, 7:30 pm
Rodney Koeneke, Eileen Joy, David Hadbawnik, Dan Remein, Jen Coleman, & Mark Owens  
Wordsmirch, hosted by Chris Piuma, with visiting writers (in town for the New Chaucer Society conference) and local favorites

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 
523 SE Morrison

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Thursday, July 26, 7:30 pm
Cindy St. John, Lindsay Allison Ruoff, & music by Chanticleer Tru
If Not for Kidnap reading series
3968 SE Mall St. (upper floors)

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Sunday, July 29, 7:30 pm
Chris Piuma & Jared Stanley
Spare Room cofounder Piuma, now in Toronto, and Jared Stanley visiting from Reno

Spare Room reading series 
Open Space Cafe 
2815 SE Holgate

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Monday, July 30, 6:30 pm
Escritorio Publico / Plaza of Public Writings
Based on the Plaza de Santo Domingo in Mexico City, the public will be invited to work with the plaza’s scribes to turn a plea, pledge, rant, declaration, seduction, or curse into a letter, lyric, poem, song, prose, or other creative work; also instant bookmaking and performances


Poetry on the Piazza -- Rodney Koeneke and Jen Coleman, hosts
Director Park 
SW Park & Taylor 

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Brown, Warren & Wiatr, 7/1/12


Sunday, July 1
at 7:30 p.m.

Spare Room presents
a poetry reading by

Brandon Brown
Alli Warren
&
Zosia Rose Wiatr

3120 N. Williams Ave, Portland

$5 suggested donation

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Dan Thomas-Glass & Phoebe Wayne, 5/26


Saturday, May 26th
at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Dan Thomas-Glass
&
Phoebe Wayne

The Proper Salon
715 SE Grand Ave., Portland
[please note change of venue]

$5 suggested donation

Friday, May 11, 2012

Russo and Lohmann at The Switch, 5/17


Thursday, May 17th
at 7 p.m.

Linda Russo
&
Sam Lohmann 

will read poems for

Switchyard Studios
109 SE Salmon St., Portland

Friday, April 27, 2012

Sunday, April 29th
at 7:00 p.m.

Spare Room presents
a poetry reading by

Andrew Joron
Brian Lucas
Joseph Noble

and music by
(Joron, Lucas, Noble, and Mark Pino)

3120 N. Williams Ave., Portland

$5 suggested donation

Friday, April 6, 2012

Gone East


I'm doing readings in Hadley, MA and New York next week, and there's a Peaches and Bats release party in Brooklyn. Here are the details:

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Amaranth Borsuk
Gretchen E. Henderson
Sam Lohmann

42 West St., Hadley, MA

Wednesday, April 11th
9:00 p.m.

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East Coast outing
with readings by

John Coletti
Andrew Hughes
Glenn Mott
Eléna Rivera

Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, April 14th
6:30 p.m.

***

Megan Burns
Jessica Fiorini
Sam Lohmann

82 West 3rd St., New York, NY

Sunday, April 14th
5:30 p.m.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Publication Party for Peaches and Bats #9!

Sunday, March 4
at 6:30 p.m.

Spare Room presents
"Speeches and Pabst"
a publication party for Peaches and Bats #9

with readings by

Chris Ashby
Maryrose Larkin
James Yeary

and editorial interrompules by
"The Firm & Aerie"

kindly hosted by
Mother Foucault's Bookshop
523 SE Morrison St.
Portland

free

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Peaches and Bats 9



Peaches and Bats #9

features writing by
Chris Ashby
Laynie Browne
Allen Edwin Butt
John Coletti
Andrew Hughes
Sarah Kelly
Maryrose Larkin
Glenn Mott
Sheila E. Murphy
Eléna Rivera
Linda Russo
Cindy St. John
James Yeary

and drawings by
Nate Orton

64-page handsewn zine with letterpress cover

$5
(includes shipping in North America)

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or email peachesandbats AT gmail DOT com

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

new Airfoil chapbook!

J. A. Lee's beautiful, mysterious and hilarious chapbook, Words That, is now available from airfoil!

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WARNING LABEL

Trees eat books; books eat people.

Monday, February 6, 2012

The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest: a marathon reading, 2/11-2/12

YU & Spare Room present
a marathon reading of

The Collected Poems of
Barbara Guest

in the kitchen at YU
808 SE 10th Ave., Portland

Saturday & Sunday
February 11 & 12
3-8 p.m. each day

come and go freely

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Joseph Lease and Jamalieh Haley, 2/5


Sunday, February 5
at 7: 30 p.m.

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Joseph Lease
&
Jamalieh Haley

Open Space Cafe
2815 SE Holgate Blvd., Portland

$5 suggested donation