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Featured Events
Everybody Reads 2019: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (SOLD OUT)
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Barry Lopez: Horizon Book Launch
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
2019 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
Monday, April 22, 2019
2018/2019 Portland Arts & Lectures Subscriptions
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Upcoming Events
PDX JAZZ: Carnival to Mardi Gras: A New Orleans Tradition
January 23, 2019
Carnival is a season; Mardi Gras is a day. Join former New…
Northwest Academy: Erin Hoover and Jennifer Perrine
February 7, 2019
A reading with Erin Hoover and Jennifer Perrine Erin Hoover’s debut poetry…
Everybody Reads 2019: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (SOLD OUT)
March 14, 2019
In partnership with the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, Literary…
Barry Lopez: Horizon Book Launch
March 19, 2019
Join Literary Arts for a book launch event for Horizon, the latest…
2019 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
April 22, 2019
Join Literary Arts’ annual celebration of the state’s most accomplished writers in…
Latest Blog Posts
January 15, 2019
Go to PostDanielle Frandina is an educator, writer, and editor who earned her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts and taught at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay, where she chaired the school’s humanities department. Danielle is founder, curator…
January 14, 2019
Go to PostWe are hosting award-winning author Tayari Jones on January 17 the third event of our SOLD OUT 2018/2019 season of Portland Arts & Lectures. Tune in to OPB Radio’s Think Out Loud at 12:00 p.m. on January 17 to hear…
January 8, 2019
Go to PostKristina Tate is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. She has lived in Arizona, San Francisco, South Lake Tahoe, New York City, Australia and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in Narratively, Guernica, BOMB and others. She is currently working on…
Featured Lecture from the Archives
Barbara Kingsolver
January 16, 2019
Go to LectureBarbara Kingsolver, author of bestselling the novel The Poisonwood Bible and Animal Dreams, discusses her then most recent novel Flight Behavior as well as her career up to that point.
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