• October 15, 2024
          Malcolm Gladwell in conversation
          October 22, 2024
          Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation
          October 24, 2024
          Bookmark: Fundraising Gala
          November 1, 2024
          Readers Night: Supporting Portland Book Festival
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Shayla Lawson

Shayla Lawson is the author of three books of poetry—A Speed Education in Human Being, the chapbook Pantone, and I Think I’m Ready to see Frank Ocean—and the essay collection This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope. Lawson was born in Rochester, Minnesota, grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, studied architecture in Italy and spent a few years as a Dutch housewife—milkmaid braids and all. Lawson teaches at Amherst College and lives in Brooklyn, NY.


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Oct 27