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          Incite: Queer Writers Read – March
          March 24, 2023
          OBA Finalists Reading: Creative Nonfiction
          March 25, 2023
          Children’s Storytime! with 2023 OBA Finalists
          March 25, 2023
          OBA Finalists Reading: Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature
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Events, Classes, and Seminars

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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Delve Readers Seminars   Online   Spring 2023  

Little Things: A Study of Literary Compression

“It’s the little things that count”; “Good things come in small packages”; “Brevity is the soul of wit”; “The Devil’s in the details”… We’ll put these aphorisms to the test in this Delve Seminar exploring short poems, prose poetry, and short/micro fiction. These compressed forms aren’t lacking for content in their brevity, and we will

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Slamlandia

Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets

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Delve Readers Seminars   In-person   Spring 2023  

Introduction to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past

Proust’s magnum opus is often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century. It richly repays the careful attention it demands, and becomes unforgettable. First-time readers, however, may find the style and size of the work daunting. This seminar is intended for participants who have always wanted to read Proust, but who would

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Apr 24

Delve Readers Seminars   In-person   Spring 2023  

Romeo and Juliet

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland is producing two Shakespeare plays this season, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night—both perennial favorites. OSF tries to make these plays fresh for contemporary audiences with inventive or provocative interpretations. These seminars will help you think through how you might stage the dramas if you were the director. How

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Tuesday

Apr 25

Delve Readers Seminars   In-person   Spring 2023  

Absalom, Absalom

Published in 1936, William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! takes his favored subject--the legacy of slavery and the Civil War--and his imagined setting--Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County--to new heights of development. Set in the period before, during, and after the Civil War, it focuses on the life of Thomas Sutpen, an aspiring plantation owner and patriarch, and his descendants.

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Delve Readers Seminars   Online   Spring 2023  

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain

This seminar offers an in-depth exploration of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924). As a modernist epic The Magic Mountain intimates the tradition of the Bildungsroman, only with an ironic twist. It draws an unforgettable portrayal of a lost world, the cosmopolitan European society before the First World War. The polyglot, international milieu

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Monday

May 15

Delve Readers Seminars   In-person   Spring 2023  

Twelfth Night

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland is producing two Shakespeare plays this season, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night—both perennial favorites. OSF tries to make these plays fresh for contemporary audiences with inventive or provocative interpretations. These seminars will help you think through how you might stage the dramas if you were the director. How

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Ticketed Events  

TOM HANKS IN CONVERSATION

Literary Arts presents a special event with legendary actor, filmmaker, and writer Tom Hanks, in conversation about his new novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. About the book: The

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Tuesday

May 23

Delve Readers Seminars   In-person   Spring 2023  

“Beneath every history, another history”: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall

With the death of Hilary Mantel in September 2022 we lost one of the greatest writers of our time. Mantel’s books are so original, and so different from one another, that it’s often difficult to believe they were written by the same novelist. Her brilliant language, dark humor, and inventive, impeccable craft make everything she

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