Our monthly event where we recite other people’s poems from memory. Come with a poem or just listen! Starts at 7 sharp

“Maybe someday we will find refuge in true reality. In the mean-time, can I just say how opposed I am to all of this?”

-Alejandra Pizarnik

Open Mic with Featured Readers/Performers. Come share your version of right now 🙃

Dan Attoe is a painter and sculptor and has written a dark but colorful tale about an ancient destructive part of human nature and the difficulty of confronting our roots.

Emily J. Mundy is a Seattle-based poet who believes in writing as a force that heals, transforms, and illuminates. Her work reveres the mystical nature of language and often explores spirituality. Emily is the creator of The Poetry Séance—a quarterly performance and workshop series curated to enliven poetry shows and embolden local writers, each season at a time. Her debut manuscript of poetry, What Blooms in the Dark, is published with Moon Tide Press. You can subscribe to her new moon museletter on Substack to stay in the orbit of her various poetic offerings. 

Dr. Mindy Nettifee is a poet, artist, educator, and somatic trauma therapist. Her doctoral research is on the sensory capacities of the voice and the role of voice and language in trauma healing. She has been teaching creative writing and performance for more than 15 years, and currently teaches storytelling workshops for Literary Arts, produces and hosts for Back Fence Storytelling and The Moth, and serves at The Center for Artist Resilience. She has published three full-length poetry collections and the how-to book on writing Glitter in the Blood. Her latest collection is Open Your Mouth Like a Bell (Write Bloody). She also writes posts about the moon(!) which you can get for free by subscribing to her Substack, In the River of What's Happening Now, or by following her on social media (@thecultofmindy).

Our monthly event where we recite other people’s poems from memory. Come with a poem or just listen! Starts at 7 sharp

A Persistence of Cormorants with Gerald Wagoner, Diane Corson, Bruce Parker, Tiel Aisha Ansari, & John Miller.

Gerald Wagoner is the author of When Nothing Wild Remains, (Broadstone Books, September 2023), and A Month of Someday, (Indolent Books, March 2023) . Gerald’s childhood was divided between Eastern Oregon and Montana where he was raised under the doctrine of benign neglect. About Gerald's poems, Ken Hada wrote in "World Literature Today": "Wagoner’s poems remind us to set aside faulty notions of progress, at least for the moment, to consider the psychological cost of neglecting the wildness that we should embrace as a national inheritance. In doing so, he echoes Thoreau’s call to wildness as the “preservation of the world.”

Please join us on Saturday, Oct. 19 6-8:30pm for a closing reception and artist talk to celebrate Jaydra Johnson's exhibition HARK, presented by Grapefruits. The reception will feature a conversation between Jaydra and artist Brandi Kruse about the materials and influences in her collages and mobiles, currently on view in the rare book room at Mother Foucault's. Email martha (at) daghlian.org for more information and the show text/works list.

Grapefruits presents an art show of Dan Ray Everett, with music by Little Dog

Evan Rail’s new book The Absinthe Forger: The True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World's Most Dangerous Spirit  tells the true story of the mysterious Absinthe Forger who deceived the dedicated community of absintheurs across Europe for years. 

Evan is a food and drinks writer who currently lives in Prague and can speak to the process of writing an investigative nonfiction book, absinthe, cocktail writing, true crime, and many other topics.

Our monthly event where we recite other people’s poems from memory. Come with a poem or just listen! Starts at 7 sharp

Our monthly event where we recite other people’s poems from memory. Come with a poem or just listen! Starts at 7 sharp

Author and founder/director of Rewild Portland, Peter Michael Bauer will discuss the history, major figures and seminal ideas of the radical anthropology group.

JERRY A (Poison Idea) with Andrew Stromstad

Record release, reading and musical performance

Join us for a night of words and music with Portland punk legend Jerry A (Poison Idea). Jerry will read from his gut wrenching, yet life affirming memoir Black Heart Fades Blue (Rare Bird), and play some music accompanied by musician Andrew Stromstad (I Am The Intimidator, Poison Idea) to celebrate the release of his new record.

Grapefruits presents Hark, an art show of work by Jaydra Johnson. Opening party July 12, 5-8pm, in the Mother Foucault’s rare book room.

Our monthly event of poetry recitation. Memorize someone else’s poem and come recite it, or just listen. 7pm sharp, every first Friday

Daniel Tutt will read from his new book on Nietzsche and his influence on contemporary politics, How To Read Like a Parasite.

How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged version of Nietzsche that has been made popular by generations of translators and academic philosophers who have presented his work as apolitical and without a core reactionary agenda. The central argument of the book is that Nietzsche’s philosophy does have a center, and that the left learns a great deal from Nietzsche when we read him as driven by a highly sophisticated reactionary political vision that informs all his major concepts and ideas. The most important Nietzschean concepts — from perspectivism, ressentiment, eternal return to the pathos of distance — are analyzed in the historical context in which Nietzsche lived and wrote, and several case-studies of prominent left-Nietzscheans from Jack London, Gilles Deleuze, Wendy Brown to Huey Newton are discussed. How to Read Like a Parasite makes a persuasive case for how we can overcome Nietzsche’s damaging influence on the left, showing us how to read and understand his work without becoming victims of it.

Poetry and song night with Maudie Ainsworth and Megan Diana

GLASS JAW

Poems by Raisa Tolchinsky

Striking and big-hearted, Glass Jaw depicts the grit and glamor of women’s boxing based on the poet's time training as a fighter in New York City.

Holocaust child survivor, historian, and translator Jacob Boas will be reading from his newest book Until Further Notice… Theresienstadt On My Mind.