The Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Featuring Rosa Lane and Laura Sciortino

 Rosa Lane is author of four poetry collections including Called Back, winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Award, published by Tupelo Press in 2024, in queer conversation with Emily Dickinson; Chouteau’s Chalk, winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019; Tiller North, winner of the National Indie Excellence Award, published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2016; and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook. Her work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize, chosen as winner of the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, and selected finalist for the 2023 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition (Cork, Ireland) among other awards. Lane’s poems have appeared in Cloudbank, Five Points, Nimrod, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere. More info: www.rosalane.com

Laura Sciortino is the author of Remote Control and co-creator of Send & Respond. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Fractured Lit, The Comstock Review, Unleash Literary Journal, Great Weather for Media, and elsewhere. As a typewriter poet, Laura loves crafting on-the-spot custom poems for people at various events and celebrations. Her next typewriter appearance will be at ChatterPDX (Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence with violin, viola, and cello) on the morning of Oct. 5 where she is also the featured spoken word poet. Please visit ChatterPDX.org for tickets and information.

Laura also works as a writing coach and consultant, helping individuals and organizations find and refine their voice. She lives with her husband, son, and three affable felines in the Multnomah Village neighborhood. Website: LauraEstherSciortino.com. Instagram: @thetypewriterpoetpdx

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.

The Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Oct. 12, 2025 (Sunday) 7:00 PM

Featuring Rosa Lane and Laura Sciortino

Rosa Lane is author of four poetry collections including Called Back, winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Award, published by Tupelo Press in 2024, in queer conversation with Emily Dickinson; Chouteau’s Chalk, winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019; Tiller North, winner of the National Indie Excellence Award, published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2016; and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook. Her work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize, chosen as winner of the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, and selected finalist for the 2023 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition (Cork, Ireland) among other awards. Lane’s poems have appeared in Cloudbank, Five Points, Nimrod, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere. More info: www.rosalane.com

Laura Sciortino is the author of Remote Control and co-creator of Send & Respond. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Fractured Lit, The Comstock Review, Unleash Literary Journal, Great Weather for Media, and elsewhere. As a typewriter poet, Laura loves crafting on-the-spot custom poems for people at various events and celebrations. Her next typewriter appearance will be at ChatterPDX (Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence with violin, viola, and cello) on the morning of Oct. 5 where she is also the featured spoken word poet. Please visit ChatterPDX.org for tickets and information.

Laura also works as a writing coach and consultant, helping individuals and organizations find and refine their voice. She lives with her husband, son, and three

affable felines in the Multnomah Village neighborhood. Website: LauraEstherSciortino.com

Instagram: @thetypewriterpoetpdx

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.

Questions? Please contact host Leah Stenson at [email protected].