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September 2025

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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
Humble Poets’ Open Mic
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
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Poetry Night at McMinnville Public Library
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Since 2013 we’ve been meeting once a month in McMinnville. We start each evening with a reading from a featured poet, followed by an open mic from the audience.  In 2025, we meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 6 pm. 2025 Featured Poets Jan 9: Richard Robbins  Feb 13: Bethany Lee Mar 13: John Van Dreal Apr , ...
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CONCERT TO COMMEMORATE THE 2020 ARCHIE CREEK FIRE
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Forest Bridges has teamed up with Jane Ratzlaff, Family Development Center, and the In a Landscape organization to commemorate the 5th Anniversary of the Archie Creek Fire, one of five megafires that burned over 1 million acres of BLM O&C, US Forest Service, State and private forests during the 2020 Labor Day Fires , ...
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Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written
6:30 pm
An active poetry workshop entitled Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written will be held monthly on the second Monday of every month, beginning Monday February 10th at 6.30 at Portland Arts Collective, in downtown Portland at 122 NW Couch Street. There are resources guiding our practice and a unique visual monta , ...
Stay.Salem
7:00 pm
a poetry book release tour by Micah Bournes with additional poetry by Meg Judge and other Salem poets , ...
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Campfire Tales – Storytelling Event
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Campfire Tales: A New Kind of Storytelling Event Campfire Tales is a new kind of storytelling community in Portland. It’s where storytellers share personal stories with an audience that listens—and is invited to respond. After each story, audience members can offer written feedback, creating a unique exchange between t , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
The Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic
7:00 pm
Featuring Shawn Aveningo Sanders and Cathy Cain  Shawn Aveningo Sanders overcame a lifelong fear of birds when in 2013 she moved to Oregon and fell in love with the adorable Dark-Eyed Juncos in her backyard. Over 250 of Shawn’s poems have been published worldwide in Australia, Croatia, England, France, the Netherlands, , ...
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In Memory Reading Series
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Live featured poet series, with open mic. This month the feature is celebrated Oregon poet Emmett Wheatfall  Hawthorne Hideaway (Red Room performance space) 2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd. , ...
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Salem Poetry Project Featuring Listen to the People
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
This evening we will present “Listen to the People” a long poem for multiple voices by Steven Vincent Benet. Written in early 1941 it discusses American response to Totalitarianism. Benet was an American poet, short story writer and novelist. He won the Pulitzer prize for his book length narrative poem about the Americ , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
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Salem Poetry Project featuring Debra Elisa
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Debra Elisa explores joy and sorrow, grief and ecstasy through poetry and fiction. She believes sharing stories saves lives and leads Poetry Play and other creative workshops. You Can Call It Beautiful, her first collection, debuted in 2023. She lives in Portland, Oregon and loves to lose herself in her backyard garden , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
Humble Poets’ Open Mic
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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