Central Oregon Community College’s Barber Library will host Anis on the evening of April 7th, for a reading and conversation to follow. 6:30-8pm. Info and registration HERE

What if there were a place, outside the chaos of ordinary life—where light and sound combine in a vibration, where the music is always swinging, where time becomes groove, where we calibrate the contents of cool? There is. Be there: thecoolspot.club.

Renowned jazz pianist Darrell Grant reimagines what a night at a jazz club might be in our new world of virtual performances, performing with musicians Eric Gruber and Dani danger, and curating special guest performances, streaming live from N Portland’s venue, 1905.

Streaming online via HERE. Free.

Throughout the month of October, Blackfish Gallery in Portland OR will be virtually hosting poetry, musical, and theatrical performances, against the backdrop of that month’s show, The Love Politik.

Join this year’s Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts virtually, on Thursday, October 1 at 6:00 p.m. PDT. The event has grown to be an annual highlight on Portland’s literary calendar. This year we’ll come together online to celebrate our creative community and hear powerful stories from some of Oregon’s brightest artists.
INFO HERE

Online workshop hosted by the Deschutes Library.
INFO & LINK HERE

Online reading hosted by the Deschutes Library. Q&A to follow. Follow up workshop on Saturday the 12th.
INFO & LINK HERE

For 11 years VertueLab has brought together a community of future-focused leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors at an annual summit to fund, fuel, and catalyze solutions for climate change.

This year, Fuel 2020 (previously VertueLab Impact Summit) will have short daily digital events that will inspire, educate, and showcase the latest cleantech innovations in the Pacific Northwest.

INFO HERE

Portland’s Artslandia has been hosting Happy Hour performances, interviews, and presentations over quarantine on their Facebook page. I’ll be doing one, presented by Literary Arts and Devil’s Food Catering. Free, all one has to do is show up HERE

Bowery Poetry continues their streaming Sunday quarantine series No Desk Concert with Lighthouse Towers. I’ll join 9 other readers, each of us doing a 10 minute set. Starts at 4pm Eastern, 1pm West Coast, livestreamed through the Bowery’s Facebook page, here. Hope yall can join us!

For four years I used to ride around the country every autumn for two months with Derrick Brown, Buddy Wakefield, and Mike McGee and we’d see the whole country and do poems for people doing our best to show people that poetry could be weird and fun and cool and powerful and quiet and stupid and boundless, and we decided to do something sorta like that again while we all have to find in our homes our own boundlessness. We’ll also be doing a 4-part workshop series, each of us leading one!
Tickets and Info HERE

The worlds funnest poetry show hosted by Write Bloody Publishing!
Featuring:
JASON BAYANI • FRANNY CHOI • ANIS MOJGANI • NICOLE HOMER • CRISTIN O'KEEFE APTOWICZ • DERRICK C BROWN • ANNELEYSE GELMAN • SEEMA REZA • TAYLOR MALI • LINO ANUNCIACION
Just 5 bucks.

Yee-haw, y'all! It's the triumphant return of the Gentleman Bosses: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz! Anis Mojgani! & Derrick Brown! 

This trio of award-winning, internationally-touring, and genre-busting raconteurs hasn't hit an Austin stage together in over five years! So come on out as they bring their well-loved poems, stories, and vulnerable lightning to their old hometown! Or else live with the regret as they disappear for another half-decade, like weirdo offbeat locuses. 

Show at 8pm
Tickets $5 Get em here

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“If you aren't familiar with Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, then you are doing a serious disservice to your sensibilities. Aptowicz has made herself vulnerable so that her audience can be transformed by them as she has.” – Hothouse Magazine

"Anis Mojgani is a trickster and a philosopher, a theologian and a rock star." – Luis Urrea, Pulitzer Prize Finalist &author of The Devil's Highway

“There’s something that happens when you read Derrick Brown, a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words. … when you have the fantastic fortune to watch him perform it in person, you yourself are a bit more alive." – Joel Lovell, The New York Times

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Brought to you by Native Hostel and The Comedy Resistance Texas 

The Comedy Resistance is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization using live events, local activism to inspire comedians, artist, comedy fans, and lovers of life, to increased civic engagement via voter registration, and ongoing activism to drive policy.

Essayist and arts advocate Andre Perry will be reading from Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, his debut collection which explores individual and national identity with tender and disarming honesty. Anis will join him at Powell’s City of Books for conversation and Q&A.