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Slamlandia

Thu, Oct 16, 2025 from 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm PDT

Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month, on the third Thursday. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old to come share their work. We strive towards a safe space for poets to read their own poetry, witness others, and participate in community.

Slamlandia is hosted by Julia Gaskill. The featured poet for October is Bella.

Julia Gaskill

Julia Gaskill

Julia Gaskill (she/her) is a poet and organizer hailing from Portland, OR. She has competed multiple times on national spoken word stages and toured with her poetry across North America. Her work has been published through FreezeRay Poetry, Pile Press, Vagabond City Lit, and more, as well as in several anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, weirdo, was published with Game Over Books Press in 2022. Julia runs the monthly poetry mic series Slamlandia, and she is a co-creator and the lead organizer of the Bigfoot Poetry Festival (taking place in downtown Portland for its fifth time this June). She was elected to the board of the Oregon Poetry Association in 2024, and she was a 2025 Carolyn Moore Writers House resident. When not writing poetry or organizing events, Julia can be found binging the latest must-watch TV, exploring the Pacific Northwest with her husband, or walking your dog.
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Bella

Bella

Bella is a writer, performer, model, and published author from Portland, OR. She was the 2019 Portland Poetry Slam Grand Slam Champ, and in 2023 her team (Team TBD) took first at the second ever Bigfoot Poetry Festival. Her debut collection, Side Effects of Remembering the Little Things, came out in 2019, and her second book, Good Bones, was released in 2023. She served as artist in residence at Paper Epiphanies in 2023. Through her poetry, Bella hopes to create connection, conversation, and understanding so we all feel a little less alone.

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