come celebrate with us this saturday!! we'd love to see you 🎂🪅🥂

#Portland ! do you have interest in Poetry, Prose, Comics, or Graphic Design?

the IPRC has a year long portfolio program where you can hone skills in a workshop setting without the trappings (& cost) of an MFA!

apply here! iprc.org/education/port…

🌟SAVE THE DATE🌟 to celebrate 25 years of DIY publishing and printmaking, we’re throwing a block party! 🎂🎊

💝Saturday August 26th 6-10pm
🥂SE 3rd Ave between SE Main St and SE Madison St
💠sliding scale entry fee ($25 suggested donation) no one turned away for lack of funds!

Dear Portland, OR: Join us for this blockbuster reading IPRC in association with the ASLE conference with Tyrone Williams, Jonathan Skinner, Allison Hedge Coke , @RinaGarciaChua, Jessica Johnson , @diddioz

Excited to be leading this class on the epistolary form at IPRC in July. Dear Portland: let's write letters together. iprc.org/event/epistola…

Still accepting applications through Friday for the Portfolio Program Poetry Instructor!

iprc.org/position-avail…

On Sunday April 23rd from 2-3:15pm, claire barrera and Meredith Butner, editors & creators of When Language Runs Dry, will lead Reimagining the Language of Pain.

Learn more + register here: eventbrite.com/e/reimagining-…

On Saturday April 22nd from 2-3:30pm, we're hosting Drawing Towards Our Autonomy: Trans Healthcare in Words and Pictures (A Comics Workshop) with Rimona Eskayo 🖍

Learn more + register here: eventbrite.com/e/drawing-towa…

this weekend! come hang out in the zine library 🖍️📚

Portland poets writing within /alongside / in conversation with an eco poetry framework? Asking for a friend ✔️

❄️We’ve launched a temporary campaign to raise $12,000 to support our 234 active vendors to make up for lost sales due to inclement weather. ❄️

Donate by sending your support to @streetroots Venmo. Simply enter your donation amount and put “SNOW DAY FUNDS” in the payment note.

All sites welcome pets and are accessible to people with disabilities. Anyone seeking shelter should call 2-1-1 or 1-866-698-6155.

.211info staff are available to identify shelters, warming centers, and review transportation options 24/7 for Multnomah County.

(PLS RT)...Three additional sites will open tonight, Thursday, Feb. 23, at 8 pm:

▪️ Charles Jordan Community Center, 9009 N. Foss Ave., Portland
▪️ Imago Dei, 1302 S.E. Ankeny St., Portland
▪️ Friendly House, 1737 N.W. 26th Ave., Portland

PLS RT: 3 warming shelters will remain open during daytime hours Thurs, Feb. 23 & also stay open overnight:
▪️Arbor Lodge, 7440 N Denver Ave, Portland
▪️Salvation Army, 5325 N Williams Ave, Portland
▪️ E Portland Community Ctr, 740 SE 106th Ave, Portland

ALSO....

New book alert!! Joshua James Amberson's STARING CONTEST: ESSAYS ABOUT EYES will be out May 16, but early birds can pre-order it now.

perfectdaybooks.com/shop/staringco…