• When: Friday, March 7, sign-ups at 6:30pm, readings starting at 7pm
• Where: Cascade Campus, Terrell Hall 122

Join visiting poets Alexa Luborsky and CD Eskilson and come share your work at our second Carolyn Moore Reading Series & Open Mic event. After the visiting writers read some of their poems, С��è��ý students, faculty, and community members will have the opportunity to take the floor. The event will take place in Terrell Hall, Room 122 on the С��è��ý Cascade campus at 7 p.m., but you can sign up to participate in the open mic as early as 6:30 p.m.

is a writer and multimedia artist of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. She is the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) Creative Writing 2023 Grant Recipient for poetry collection in progress on diaspora and genocidal aftermaths. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry, an H. Kruger Kaprielian Scholar, and a Rachel Winer Manin Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the University of Virginia. She is the interviews editor for Poetry Northwest and reads for Meridian. Born in Toronto and raised in Rhode Island, she currently resides in Charlottesville, VA.

is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize, and their work appears in Kenyon Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Offing, Passages North, and others. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books.

Please join us for a conversation between Paragon Gallery artist-in-residence Jamondria Harris and writer and art critic Jessica Lynne, an October resident at the Carolyn Moore House, on October 23 at 2:30 p.m. At this unique event, Harris and Lynne will discuss Harris’s gallery show and talk about art and writing from a BIPOC perspective. Following their conversation, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A.

Please join us for a night of readings and celebration to mark the launch of landmark issues of two С��è��ý publications: Sylvania’s Alchemy turns 50 & Cascade’s The Pointed Circle turns 40!

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Doors at 6 p.m.
Event at 6:30 p.m.

С��è��ý Cascade, Terrell Hall 122
5624 N Borthwick Ave, Portland, OR 97217

This special event will include contributor readings and words from the editors and will feature special guest readers Frank X Walker (author of ten books of poetry and founder of the Affrilachian poets) and Shauna Morgan (poet-scholar and Professor of Creative Writing and Africana Literature).

Alchemy’s 50th issue includes contributions by С��è��ý students, faculty, and alumni, as well as a special folio of selections from Alchemy’s 50-year history. This celebration issue includes work by prolific poet and founding member of the Northwest Native American Writers Association (and С��è��ý alumni), Gloria Bird; Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (Poet Laureate of the US) and Poet Laureate of Oregon, William Stafford; and Oregon Book Award-winning fiction-writer (and С��è��ý alumni), Kesha Ajose Fisher.

The Pointed Circle’s 40th issue includes contributions by С��è��ý students, faculty, and alumni. The issue features a special folio of selections from the first three years of the Carolyn Moore Writer’s House at С��è��ý, including work by award-winning writers Ismet Prcic (winner of the 2013 Oregon Book Award for Fiction), Jae Nichelle (viral poetry star and author of the 2023 collection Gods Themselves), and Jose Hernandez Diaz (winner of the 2023 Benjamin Saltman Award).

Copies of both Alchemy and The Pointed Circle will be available at the event.

For questions, please contact Megan Savage or Justin Rigamonti.

We hope to see you there!

Please contact residency Program Coordinator Justin Rigamonti with questions or to access reading packets by any of the poets: justin.rigamonti@pcc.edu

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’s second book,��Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions), was a best book of 2022 according to the Boston Globe,��Electric Lit, NPR, and others. It was also named a 2023 Notable Book by the American Library Association. His debut,��When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions),��was long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including The New York Times and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts,��and United States Artists. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. With Sam Herschel Wein and a brilliant team, he edits Underblong.

 (he/they) is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA from the University of Tennessee and were awarded a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Their third chapbook,��Butt Stuff Flower Bush, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. He co-founded and edits Underblong. They have recent work in American Poetry Review,��The Cincinnati Review, and Gulf Coast, among others.

Louisiana born and Portland-based,�� is the author of the poetry collection God Themselves and the chapbook The Porch (As Sanctuary). She was the inaugural poetry winner of the John Lewis Writing Award from the Georgia Writers Association, and her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2020,��The Washington Square Review,��The Offing Magazine,��Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. Her spoken word poems have been featured by Write About Now, Speak Up Poetry Series, and Button Poetry. She is a graduate of Tulane University.

is a queer Vietnamese writer and the author of Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke (Diode Editions, Spring 2022) and The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, 2020) as well as the chapbooks Revisions (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018) and Affairs with Men in Suits (Backbone Press, 2014), and he serves as an Associate Editor for Orison Books. Eric is also a psychiatrist in Portland, Oregon. He completed his fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at OHSU, his residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center, graduated from the UNC School of Medicine, and holds an MFA from UNC Wilmington.

Born and raised on the east side of Oʻahu, is a poet and creative producer residing on the occupied territory of the Atfalati, Clatskanie, and Kalapuya with her partner, daughter, and feisty feline guide named Rumi. Her writing can be found in Frontier Poetry, PRISM International, Ruminate Magazine, Fourteen Hills, the New York Times’s Modern Love, and other publications. Her debut poetry collection, ten-cent flower & other territories, was published by First Matter Press in 2023.

Join us on Friday, February 16 for another installment in the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency Reading Series featuring poets Armin Tolentino, Brendan Constantine, and other writers in the С��è��ý community. After the visiting poets share some of their work, we’ll open the floor to students, faculty, and members of the general public. Sign-ups for the open mic will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the reading will start at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be available for attendees.

earned an MFA at Rutgers University, Newark. He’s a former Literary Arts Oregon Fellow and currently serves as poet laureate for Clark County, WA (2021-2024). His debut poetry collection, We Meant to Bring It Home Alive, was a finalist for the Red Hen Press and Kundiman prizes and was published by Alternating Current Press in 2019. Outside of writing, he works for Multnomah County supporting social service programs in education, domestic violence prevention, and housing stability.

is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry and Poem-A-Day. He currently teaches at The Windward School and, for the last six years, has been developing workshops for writers living with Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI).

The С��è��ý HARTS Council invites you to join us for our second annual Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover Carolyn Moore Reading Series event on Wednesday, November 1st in the MAHB Auditorium on the Cascade Campus at 6:30 pm. 

In addition to live music & refreshments, we’ll have readings by two 2023-24 Carolyn Moore Writing Residents, poets Jose Hernandez Diaz and Jae Nichelle, and one future resident, non-fiction writer Emilly Prado. You can read their full bios below, and if you’d like a reading packet for any of the writers, or if you have any questions, please contact Carolyn Moore Writing Residency Program Coordinator Justin Rigamonti at the following email address: justin.rigamonti@pcc.edu

is a 2017 NEA Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) and the forthcoming, Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He writes, edits, and teaches in Southeast Los Angeles.

Louisiana born and Portland-based, is the author of the poetry collection God Themselves and the chapbook The Porch (As Sanctuary). She was the inaugural poetry winner of the John Lewis Writing Award from the Georgia Writers Association, and her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2020, The Washington Square Review, The Offing Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. Her spoken word poems have been featured by Write About Now, Speak Up Poetry Series, and Button Poetry. She is a graduate of Tulane University.

is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. She is the author of  (Future Tense Books, 2021), an essay collection called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. Magazine and a winner of a 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and several other honors. She is also the author of Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019), a youth non-fiction book at the intersections of identity and U.S. history. As journalist, Emilly spent half a decade amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have appeared in more than 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, Oxygen, and The Oregonian. Co-founder of BIPOC arts non-profit,��, Emilly has worked with students of all ages in settings such as public high schools, universities, MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, and literary organizations including Tin House, Lighthouse, Corporeal Writing, Literary Arts, and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. When not writing, teaching, or organizing, Emilly moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with , the Latiné DJ collective she co-founded in 2017.

Join us on Wednesday June 14th at 7 pm for the launch of two of С��è��ý’s literary magazines, Alchemy and . Doors will open at 6 pm in Terrell Hall 122 on the Cascade Campus, and then at 7 pm we will hear from the editors and contributing authors of this year’s issues of the two magazines. To end the night, we’ll have short readings from award-winning writers Crystal Wilkinson and Ron Davis, aka upfromsumdirt.

Please write to thepointedcirclepdx@gmail.com with questions!

is the author of Silencer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)—winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award—and Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial, 2012), selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Tennessee Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, as well as fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Cave Canem. Wicker’s poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poetry and elsewhere. He is Poetry Editor of Southern Indiana Review, and an associate professor of English at the University of Memphis where he teaches in the MFA program.

was born and raised in rural Illinois. Her first book, BRUTE, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (Graywolf Press, 2019). She holds an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati, where she was a Taft Summer Research Fellow and also earned a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Emily is the Poetry Co-Editor of Southern Indiana Review. Her poems have been published in Best New Poets, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, FIELD, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, an AWP Intro Journals Award, an Academy of American Poets College Prize, and a 2019-2020 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.