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          Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Portland Arts & Lectures 2023/24
          April 20, 2024
          NW AUTHOR SERIES: SINDYA BHANOO
          April 22, 2024
          Letter Writing Social
          April 25, 2024
          Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship (2024)
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Our events, classes, and seminars bring the community together to hear, learn, and discuss the most compelling issues and ideas of our day. We hope you will join us in our downtown Literary Arts space, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.

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Oct 21

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Mar 18

Saturday

Apr 15

Free Events   In-person   Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships   Oregon Book Awards Author Tour  

Springfield Celebrates Authors: John Larison and Deb Vanasse

Join two Oregon Book Award authors for a talk and reading at the Springfield Public Library. John Larison's most recent novel, Whiskey When We’re Dry, was a Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times bestseller, an Indie Next Pick, and a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award and winner of the Will Rodgers Medallion. It was

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Tuesday

May 23

Free Events   In-person   Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships   Oregon Book Awards Author Tour  

Oregon Book Awards Author Tour: Sindya Bhanoo and Eric Tran

Featuring Sindya Bhanoo, 2023 winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction for Seeking Fortune Elsewhere and Eric Tran, 2023 winner of the Stafford/Hall prize for Poetry for Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke. Readings by the authors followed by a Q&A. Presented in partnership with Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.

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Mar 19

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