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Slamlandia – April

Thu, April 16 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month at Literary Arts, 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 April is Arttistry.

 

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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Arttistry

Arttistry

Arttistry (any pronouns) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Oregon. They excel in controlling chaos with a calming energy as a teacher, bringing professionalism and consistency as a musician and sound mixer, and vulnerability and diversity to stages as a poet. They practice honesty, accountability, and strive to create beauty from trauma in their art.

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