Fiction Poetry Portland Book Festival
Still Life: John Freeman & Meng Jin
Poet John Freeman and short story writer Meng Jin explore the isolation and search for connection of the past few years. Moderated by Mindy Nettifee.
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Poetry Portland Book Festival
Designing Women: Tayi Tibble & Shelley Wong
Celebrate two exciting debut poetry collections. Poem by poem, Tayi Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation. Shelley Wong celebrates queer and Asian identity in "shape-shifting poems of becoming and knowing, seeing and being seen" (Electric Lit). Moderated by Alyssa Ogi.
Fiction Poetry Portland Book Festival
Generations: Matthew Dickman & Emiko Jean
Very different books—a poetry collection, a novel—that grapple with shared questions about parenthood and childhood. Moderated by Alicia Jo Rabins, poet, musician, and author of Even God Had Bad Parenting Days.
Poetry Portland Book Festival
Intimate Apocalypse: CJ Evans & Saeed Jones
Poems that reckon with historical grief and impending catastrophe, and how we find life and freedom amid that grief and anger. Moderated by Erika Stevens.
Nonfiction Portland Book Festival
Think Out Loud: Somewhere Sisters
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds.
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