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)

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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.)

***

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

***

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