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          Abraham Verghese: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25
          December 10, 2024
          The Moth Mainstage in Portland
          January 16, 2025
          Timothy Egan: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25
          February 13, 2025
          Masha Gessen: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25
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byroN José sun

byroN José sun has an MFA in bilingual creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. His mission is to use creativity to promote a vision of humanity, compassion, sacrifice, courage, and justice, by exploring life in both violence and nonviolence. He strongly believes the writer mustn’t try to replace the world with a less violent version, but rather present it as it is, to force people to feel and think of their place in the world. For a moment, he wants the reader to suspend their reality, their own perspective—”to send them spinning in a different direction so they can experience the things I have seen firsthand.”

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Our events, classes, and seminars bring the community together to hear, learn, and discuss the most compelling issues and ideas of our day. We hope you will join us in our downtown Literary Arts space, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.