Tomorrow night at Disjecta, Wordstock and the IPRC are holding the annual Text Ball, a night of readings, music, and mingling. Attendees are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite font. Entry is $15 at the door, $12 in advance. More from the organizers: This year’s theme is “The Graphic Details” and the evening will […]
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Bad Blood Reading Tonight
Hot on the heels of their last reading comes Bad Blood’s 14th event, tonight at ADX on 11th and SE Stark. Featured poets are Sarah Bartlett, Mary Austin-Speaker, and Christopher Martin. Sarah Bartlett lives in Portland, OR. Last year she coauthored the chapbook Baby on the Safe Side with Emily Kendal Frey. Mary Austin-Speaker and […]
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Fall Ill Medicine
The Body Poetry of Carrie Seitzinger
FALL ILL MEDICINE, the latest collection from Carrie Seitzinger, is a slim volume of work displaying the range and seriousness of the Portland poet’s talent. Most of the poems are stories in verse with an autobiographical feel. Aside from a few detours, the book keeps a tight focus on personal upheaval. The poems capture and […]
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Bad Blood XIII Reading Tonight
The folks at Bad Blood are back in action tonight with a reading event at Inner SE Portland art space ADX. The readers are: CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE is the author of The Black Forest (Octopus Books, 2012). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, jubilat, and Tin House. He teaches at Smith College and lives in […]
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Sweatin’ To The Poetry Readings
Tonight there will be a free party at the IPRC for the book release of Carrie Seitzinger’s new poetry collection Fall Ill Medicine. Hosted by Mindy Nettifee, there will be singing, dance, music, free snacks and beer, and performances by Sarah Cawley and Eve Darling. Carrie will be reading from her new book, the second […]
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Sampsell At Salon
Portland author/publisher, sometimes Mercury-contributer, and my coworker, Kevin Sampsell, has a great essay over at Salon about helping a suicidal customer at Powell’s Books, and how it relates to his own emotional struggles. There’s lots of interesting insight into how working with the public can lead you into complicated personal situations and how the troubles […]
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Lazy Fascist Author Scores Marketing Coup
Portland publisher Lazy Fascist Press is experiencing an unprecedented sales surge thanks to a mixture of design and dumb luck. Last week, Louisville author Patrick Wensink shared an unusually polite cease and desist letter from Jack Daniel’s, asking him to change the cover design of his novel, Broken Piano for President, which mimicked the classic […]
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I Wanted To Review R. Kelly’s Soulacoaster And I Deserve What I Get
After numerous delays, and rumors that it would never see the light of day, R. Kelly’s memoir Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me has finally hit the shelves. And so it was with flushed anticipation that I obtained the only copy on the shelf at Powell’s, anxious for insight into the mind of the man who […]
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Mad Men Recap: Season’s End
Before the season started I took a poll, will Don cheat on Megan? The results were an overwhelming yes with certain caveats and an admittedly semi-rigged voting system. But good for Don, he made it through one whole season of Mad Men sleeping with only one person. MORE AFTER THE JUMP! But then last night, […]
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Small Doggies Says Good-Bye (for Now)
The Monthly Reading Series Changes
The Small Doggies reading series kicks its monthly habit.
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Mad Men Recap – Don Draper’s Worst Day, For Real This Time
Just kidding last week, this week was Don’s worst day ever. But no spoilers above the break. Let’s have a totally spoiler free poll at least. I happened to revisit part of Season 3 last week. It’s odd seeing Lane before we really knew him. When it first aired he hardly registered for me outside […]
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Mad Men Recap – Don Draper’s Worst Day Ever
Envy and jealousy have always been a big theme of Mad Men but I don’t think it’s ever been more pervasive than this season. The aptly named episode “The Other Woman” followed people coveting over what they didn’t have and comparing and contrasting what and how they were willing to do to achieve it. Immediately […]