• April 3, 2023
          2023 Oregon Book Awards
          April 5, 2023
          One Page Wednesday- April
          April 8, 2023
          Jessica E. Johnson & Janice Lee: A Reading & Conversation
          April 13, 2023
          Slamlandia
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Portland Arts & Lectures

Subscriptions for the 2022/23 Portland Arts & Lectures season have closed! Check back in with us in April 2023 for information about the upcoming 23/24 season. View the current season lineup here.

NOTE: We are planning for the 2022/23 Portland Arts & Lectures season to be in-person only (no hybrid option). Read more on our FAQ page.

Portland Arts & Lectures 2022/23

April 20, 2023
Portland Arts & Lectures 2022/23: Ada Limón

Upcoming Ticketed Events

April 3, 2023
2023 Oregon Book Awards
April 20, 2023
Portland Arts & Lectures 2022/23: Ada Limón
April 27, 2023
Verselandia! 2023
May 18, 2023
TOM HANKS IN CONVERSATION

Upcoming Free Events

April 5, 2023
One Page Wednesday- April
April 8, 2023
Jessica E. Johnson & Janice Lee: A Reading & Conversation
April 12, 2023
Oregon Literary Fellowship Reading
April 15, 2023
Springfield Celebrates Authors: Leah Sottile and Deb Vanasse
April 19, 2023
BIPOC Reading Series- April
April 24, 2023
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
April 28, 2023
Endi Bogue Hartigan & Flávia Rocha in Conversation
May 18, 2023
Slamlandia
May 29, 2023
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
June 15, 2023
Slamlandia

Delve Seminars

April 10, 2023
Little Things: A Study of Literary Compression
April 10, 2023
Haunted Chambers: Piranesi and The Little Stranger
April 16, 2023
Introduction to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past
April 24, 2023
Romeo and Juliet
April 25, 2023
Absalom, Absalom
May 10, 2023
Barbara Pym: Excellent Women and Quartet In Autumn
May 11, 2023
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
May 15, 2023
Twelfth Night
May 23, 2023
“Beneath every history, another history”: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall

Writing Classes

April 5, 2023
Writing the Weird and Wonderful
April 5, 2023
Noticing: Writing as an Act of Attention
April 10, 2023
Speaking Beyond the Self in Poetry
April 11, 2023
Refuse the Given World: Breaking Blocks Through Play
April 24, 2023
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
May 6, 2023
Where Do I Go From Here: Writing the Novel
May 9, 2023
Creative Nonfiction I
May 10, 2023
Weaving Small Fragments: The Lyric Essay
May 16, 2023
Prompted: A Get-Writing Class
May 29, 2023
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
July 11, 2023
In Defense of the Imagination: Craft & Daily Practice
July 18, 2023
The Visual Essay: Experiments in Form