Studio Series Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Featuring Jennifer Perrine and Jaye Nasir

 Jennifer (JP) Perrine’s most recent book, Beautiful Outlaw, was the recipient of the QTBIPOC Book Prize and the Oregon Literary Award Stafford/Hall Prize for Poetry. Perrine is the author of four previous books of poetry: Again; The Body Is No Machine; In the Human Zoo, winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize; and No Confession, No Mass, winner of the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award, the Bisexual Book Award for Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Their current writing projects include In the Interest of Time—a collection of short science fiction—and the play, No Small Parts. Their other recent work appears in the anthologies Best Small Fictions, Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry, and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection. A two-time winner of Arts and Culture Diversity and Inclusion Awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, JP lives in Portland, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, guide nature and forest therapy retreats, and manage an equity and environmental justice program for the state of Oregon. www.jenniferperrine.org

Jaye Nasir is a Portland based writer whose work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Strange Horizons, Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry and elsewhere, and has been supported by the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Hedgebrook, the Atticus Hotel and the Tin House Workshop. She won the 2024 Sundress Publications Broadside Contest and she was a 2025-2026 McCormack Writing Center Fellow.

The Open Mic is open to all audience members. Participants can sign up before the start of the reading or during the break. In the interest of time, Open Mic readers are asked to limit their reading to three minutes.

View clips of featured poets reading at the Studio Series on Instagram @poet_landia and on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1281329966139780/

The Ross Island Grocery and Café is a cozy space with capacity for 40 or so people. Tables are available, so people who arrive early can enjoy a light supper (i.e., a sandwich, salad or burger) while waiting for the reading to begin. If we run out of table space, folding chairs are available. A mic will enhance the readings. There is plenty of unrestricted parking on the streets around the Café.