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Michelle St. Romain, Tara Badstubner, and Liz Collins discuss their recent novels and the remarkable animals who play starring roles in their work. With live music by Free the Internet.

Join Mary Miller Doyle and friends for a presentation of Wonder Is a Lovely Place to Be: 365 Days of Wit, Wisdom, and Irrepressible Imagination by Brian Doyle and Mary Miller Doyle. Drawing from both beloved and previously unpublished Brian Doyle...

Editor Julie Buntin and contributors Cecily Wong and Chelsea Bieker read from their new anthology at Portland Art Museum in the Asian Art gallery.

Mahler’s Sixth Symphony surely “embraces the whole.” Darkness and light join forces in a gigantic musical canvas that culminates in titanic “hammer blows of fate.”

Singer, rapper, and author Dessa joins the Oregon Symphony for an evening of soaring song ballads, writerly pop songs, and rap anthems. Don’t miss this landmark performance, presented in collaboration with Literary Arts as an extension of the...

Untapped Trivia at Von Ebert Brewing on Mississippi Street is free to play every Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. Join in the fun at Von Ebert Brewing on Mississippi every Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. Nights include four rounds of trivia with the occasional audio round. Prizes are awarded for the top three trivia teams and one other team of our choosing. Von Ebert’s flagship taproom on Portland’s lively Mississippi Ave. Award-winning beers on 12+ taps, including our fan-favorite Volatile Substance NW IPA, plus $3 Clubhaus Lagers daily.

Overview Portland Art Museum invites the community to join a Free First Thursday event, offering free admission to the museum for all, plus a Live Wire event as part of the Literary Arts Portland Book Festival. Visitors can take in the afternoon gallery pop-ups, the evening show, or both! Free First Thursday + Museum pop-ups 4:30 – 6 p.m. — 4:30-6:00pm — Free, pre-show, pop-up performances will take place throughout the Museum’s galleries. Performers are poet and rapper Dessa, bestselling...

The Literary Arts Bookstore is pleased to welcome Kimberly Blaeser to celebrate her latest book Red Ants. Blaeser will be joined in conversation by Christopher Diaz. About the book: This bold and genre-defying prose debut by the prizewinning poet...

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer. 1hr 31min. Not Rated. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private—Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty...