Creative Arts at Menucha Retreat Center
Aug
11
to Aug 17

Creative Arts at Menucha Retreat Center

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Since 1966, the Creative Arts Community has provided unique residential workshops at Menucha. Imagine... summer in the Pacific Northwest... a whole week to focus on art, make new friends, continue friendships, take your art to a new level and rejuvenate your spirit ... that's what happens during Creative Arts @ Menucha. Join Leanne Grabel August 11th - 17th, 2024 for a workshop focused on experimenting with writing forms and building an anthology of the week’s work.

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Oregon Humanities LIVE
Nov
1
7:00 PM19:00

Oregon Humanities LIVE

Join the editors of Oregon Humanities magazine for an evening featuring recent contributors Saeeda Wright, Leanne Grabel, Brian Benson, Jennifer Perrine, and Judy Jiang reading essays and poems.

This is a free, all-ages event. No tickets or advance registration required.

This event is presented as part of the Portland Book Festival's Cover to Cover series.

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A Little Night's Poetry @ Mother Foucault's Bookshop
Oct
27
7:30 PM19:30

A Little Night's Poetry @ Mother Foucault's Bookshop

As part of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Mother Foucault’s is hosting a poetry reading featuring five local poets and four poets from the PAMLA community. Co-hosts Juan Delgado and Shawn Levy have put together a stellar roster of readers: Catherine Broadwall, Brian Stephen Ellis, Leanne Grabel, Youna Kwak, S. Renee Mitchell, Mindy Netifee, Richard Pamatatau, and Craig Svonkin.

Complimentary beverages and snacks will be on hand.

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Leanne Grabel, Brontosaurus: Illustrated Reading with Jackie Shannon Hollis & Shawn Aveningo Sanders
Nov
20
2:00 PM14:00

Leanne Grabel, Brontosaurus: Illustrated Reading with Jackie Shannon Hollis & Shawn Aveningo Sanders

A reading with Leanne Grabel, author of Brontosaurus: Illustrated and My Husband’s Eyebrows. Grabel will be joined in conversation by Jackie Shannon Hollis, author of This Particular Happiness, and Shawn Aveningo Sanders, author of What She Was Wearing.

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Writing with Leanne Grabel: Spill Your Guts
Aug
7
to Aug 13

Writing with Leanne Grabel: Spill Your Guts

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In this workshop, you will write a series of flash memoirs--short pieces that recount these events and people that formed and informed you. We will look at many examples, review poetic techniques and editing techniques so that your words will be concise and yet able to describe without becoming bogged down in length and complication. In essence, you will be writing prose poetry.

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