We have moved many of our offerings online! We hope you will join us.
Join beloved and award-winning Oregon poets Maxine Scates and Joseph Millar for a virtual reading and discussion celebrating their latest collections. Many poems in My Wilderness by Maxine Scates chronicle how a wooded Oregon hillside, her longtime home, has turned from a refuge into a landscape of change where trees once numerous are now threatened
Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! December's One Page Wednesday is hosted by Jessica Meza-Torres. The featured readers are
In this lecture, the last in a series of five, Lisa Jarnot discusses two book length projects: Some Other Kind of Mission (1994) and A Princess Magic Presto Spell (2019). Inspired by Robert Duncan’s line, “I used to make up my tents, my treasuries, my powers within powers,” she asks what it means for the
The Moth is true stories, told live and without notes. The Moth celebrates the ability of stories to honor both the diversity and commonality of human experience, and to satisfy a vital human need for connection. It seeks to present recognized storytellers among established and emerging writers, performers and artists and to encourage storytelling among communities whose stories often go unheard.
For BIPOC writers Searching for a space to create new work with fellow BIPOC writers? This two-hour workshop meets on Zoom. A variety of prompts will be presented as avenues for generating and sharing new work in an informal setting. Open to BIPOC writers at all levels writing in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Scholarships are
“If you believe in revision you don’t have to worry about perfection.” -Naomi Shihab Nye Congratulations! You’ve written some stories, some chapters of a memoir, a handful of personal essays, now what? In this multi-genre workshop, you’ll learn techniques for revising and polishing your writing by locating intention—what you’ve come to say, and how best
What happens when your flow has flown? Often, the writer will stop writing and become overwhelmed with the stress that they’re not writing. Enter Writer’s Block. The writer needs to learn how to listen to voice rather than forcing the story along, give themselves the space to let the story percolate, and get rid of
Of the great thinkers who created modernity—Darwin, Freud, Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche—Arthur Schopenhauer is the least well known in America. And yet his thoughts about the place of humankind in the universe, the nature of life, and ethics profoundly shaped many of the great writers, artists, and thinkers of the twentieth century. In the last
Humans are storytellers by nature: “Where would we be without our plots?” asks a character in a Margaret Atwood short story. Some stories persist over centuries and generations, subtly transformed with each retelling. In this seminar, we will read three modern renditions of old stories. In The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood reimagines the tale of Odysseus
This generative writing series designed for beginner and intermediate writers will welcome our inner children back into the present through poetry and story-telling. As adults, childlike joy, pleasure, and wonder can be elusive and yet we carry these parts with us all the time. Our inner 8-year-old, 12-year-old, and 17-year-old are just waiting for us
Join us for an evening with Oregon authors Paul Pastor and Joe Wilkins. Paul Pastor's most recent book is Bower Lodge, a book that journeys inward to a wild landscape of joy, grief, and transformation. Joe Wilkins the author of four poetry collections, most recently Thieve, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and When
Throughout history, writers have used lyrical techniques to access states of consciousness we associate with grief. Lyrical writing prioritizes music, rhythm, and emotion over the narrative arc. The goal of this course is to find entry into writing through reading, conversation,and various prompts and exercises to catalyze memory and thinking. We will consider how writers
Get a good start on a memoir or personal essay collection while studying—via close readings of assigned texts—some of the essential methods of creative nonfiction. Students help to form a supportive, generously critical community of writers in which risk-taking, vulnerability, and love of language and of making underpin everything we do. During class meetings, students
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021–22 season is SOLD OUT! We invite you to check back two weeks before each event on single ticket availability. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall,
This class is ideal for writers who have some experience of craft and would like to gain momentum on their manuscript (either a short story collection or a novel). Students will work on their fiction to create up to 70 additional pages for their manuscript and complete a close read of a work of fiction.
“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021–22 season is SOLD OUT! We invite you to check back two weeks before each event on single ticket availability. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall,
What does it mean to write about nature now? We are living at a time of great ecological peril and promise, when some thinkers are questioning whether “nature” even exists. How to write about this complexity in authentic and evocative ways? How to convey both the beauty and the corruption of beauty? Together, we will
This class will focus on how poetry stems from, evokes, or creates place. A place can be imaginary, material, or a combination of the two; most often, it is the latter. You'll learn about contemporary and historical ecopoetics, a field that looks at how places are created by ecological, social, cultural, and political forces, and
In partnership with Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, Literary Arts is proud to present a lecture by author Mira Jacob as the culminating event of Everybody Reads 2022. This year’s programming will center on Jacob’s illustrated memoir, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations.
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021–22 season is SOLD OUT! We invite you to check back two weeks before each event on single ticket availability. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall,
Celebrate Portland’s youth poets during Literary Arts’ annual Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship. This inspiring event draws more than 1,000 attendees as they cheer on students from Portland and East Multnomah County public high schools competing for poetic glory.
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021–22 season is SOLD OUT! We invite you to check back two weeks before each event on single ticket availability. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall,
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