Many thanks to everybody who came out to last Friday’s Whisper Session. For those who missed it, it was a very, very well attended reading graced by the presence of Anis Mojgani, Michael Roberts, Carrie Seitzinger, and Iowa’s own viking poet Josh Boyd. The Albina Press cafe in SE Portland OR was packed to the [...]

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Friday, May 7
@albina Press

9:00 p.m.
5012 SE Hawthorne Blvd,
Portland, OR
Josh Boyd comes to Portland on tour to read & promote his new book Catacomb Confetti. Also reading: Michael Roberts, Anis Mojgani & myself.
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Josh Boyd

Anis Mojgani

Michael Roberts & Me

The Whisper Sessions celebrate poetry and the arts community, with hosted readings* when Write Bloody authors [...]

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Whisper Session IV is on! It will be a house reading in Southeast Portland OR, featuring Derrick Brown and fiction writer Matty Byloos. Other poets will be myself, Carrie Seitzinger, and the great southern powerhouse octopus that is Trippe Davis. Contact me via email to get the info.
Whisper Session III, featuring Karen Finneyfrock was a [...]

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Sunday, March 28th (tomorrow), I will be reading at the Clinton Street Theater with Write Bloody poet Karen Finneyfrock, coming from Seattle to read from her new book of poems, Ceremony of the Choking Ghost.
Also reading will be Carrie Seitzinger and Trippe Davis. The reading is to happen after the last movie lets out, and [...]

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It’s been snowing. My land is like a broken pony. It begins to silence itself and stays behind the fences with huge whiteness. When the sun breaks in through the silken black  trees, the snow from the past three days hits one with a huge blinding Pacific Northwest explosion of gorgeousness and rebirth.
And when one gathers all [...]

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Hello New York,
I am back in Brooklyn, after having spent the past four months in Portland, OR.
Please come out & help me celebrate NYC with the Write Bloody man Derrick Brown. He’s got a new book coming out, SCANDALABRA, and he’ll be reading that with me alongside twice in BKLYN next week. All the info [...]

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Greetings, Portland friends.
 Come out and see me this Friday (November 7) at The Funky Church. I’m reading with the fantastic folksinger from Philly, Denison Witmer. The show also will have performances by Day of Lions and Kelli Schaefer

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